Tag archive: Mozilla

Firefox may be losing marketshare to Chrome, but the Mozilla Foundation has laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2012. It includes not only major new features and capabilities for its Firefox browser, but solutions for online identity management and a full-fledged marketplace for cross-platform Web apps to rival offerings from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others. However, while Mozilla is perhaps singlehandedly responsible for breaking… Read More

Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there's one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone who has augmented their browser's functionality: by default, most add-ons will be compatible with new versions of Firefox by default, and users will have an… Read More

It turns out that Mozilla calling their renewed deal with Google a “significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement” was a bit of an understatement. According to a report from AllThingsD, it's worth $300 million a year. The deal was announced on Tuesday, and followed a degree of agonizing as to whether Google would retain their spot as the Firefox browser's search engine of choice. It has now transpired that… Read More

The 'will they or won't they' suspense has ended. Google has climbed back into bed with the Firefox web browser, renewing the agreement to stay as default search engine for Firefox. The financial terms were undisclosed, but the Mozilla blog announced Tuesday that this “significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement” has been extended for a at least another three years. Mozilla doesn't go into too much detail about… Read More

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser has been facing a bit of a crisis, with the organization's search deal with Google in limbo — and with it, most of the public foundation's funding. While Mozilla and Google are reported to still be working on a new version of their search deal, new reports show Firefox is facing new challenges:Many Firefox users are failing to keep up with Mozilla's rapid release schedule for the… Read More

According to Ireland-based, research firm StatCounter, Google's Chrome 15 has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 in global browser usage during the final week of November 2011. While IE8 is still the champ in the United States, Chrome's popularity globally is attributed to increased usage while at home on the weekends as well as growth within the workplace during the week. The last time that a browser version took over… Read More

Mozilla's Firefox browser occupies a unique place in the industry. Developed as an alternative to Microsoft's market-dominating Internet Explorer, Mozilla is the only major Web browser on the planet that isn't a commercial operation. Firefox aims to answer to actual Web users, rather than cow-tow to corporate goals and pursue every opportunity to capture users and (of course) make profits. And Mozilla has succeeded: the… Read More

 Chrome has officially surpassed Firefox as the number two browser and ignited speculation that Mozilla’s application isn’t long for this world. Not only has it lost its prestigious second billing to Google, but a highly profitable deal with the company has also ended. Google and Mozilla struck a deal back in 2008 that dictated Google would be the default search engine for the Firefox browser. In return, Google paid royally—somewhere between 84-… Read More

The end of the Internet as we know it may be right around the corner — but not if the Mozilla Foundation has anything to say about it. The maker of Firefox, a non-profit organization, has launched a campaign to help block the passage of both the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' (SOPA) and the 'Protect IP Act' (PIPA), each of which may soon go up for a vote in Congress. Those who join the campaign are asked to call their senators… Read More

Nine giants of the Internet — Google, eBAy, AOL, Facebook, Yahoo, Zynga, LinkedIn, Mozilla and Twitter — placed a full-page ad in The New York Times as part of their efforts to fight back against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and the “PROTECT IP Act.” Update: A Google spokesperson has just informed us that, in addition to The New York Times, this ad ran in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the… Read More

While the official launch of Firefox 8 is scheduled for November 8, Mozilla has made the release build of Firefox 8 available for download at day early on the Mozilla FTP server. For users that would prefer to wait until tomorrow, the final build of Firefox 8 will be available on the front end of the official Mozilla site. The browser also alerts users to any available update as well. The release of Firefox 8 comes approximately six weeks after… Read More

Released late yesterday, Google issued a new update to the popular Chrome browser. Google Chrome 15 rolls out a variety of bug fixes as well as a brand new tab interface. The changes to the tabs interface separates the most-visited list of Web sites and the apps on separate pages. These pages can be accessed by clicking the left and right arrows on either side of the page. However, if the user has an app that overwrites the initial interface… Read More

According to data provided by StatCounter, Google Chrome is currently in position to rise above Mozilla's Firefox and become the second most popular Web browser by December 2011. Google's aggressive advertising for the speedy browser has helped growth over 2011. Starting with 15 percent of the market share in January 2011, Google's current market share has risen to 23.6 percent as of September 2011. Google's rapid gain… Read More

It seems like just last month we were just writing about a major release of Firefox — oh, wait, we were — but Mozilla has now taken the wraps off its Firefox 7 Web browser. In this release, Mozilla promises Firefox uses significant less memory than its predecessors, and includes a new anonymous Telemetry feature that can optionally send performance and memory data back to Mozilla HQ so the developers can get a better handle on how to improve… Read More

It looks like DigiNotar is on the brink of death. The Dutch government has taken control of the web security company after Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all taken various steps to completely eliminate all security certificates signed by DigiNotar. This comes after it was discovered DigiNotar unwittingly issued hundreds of rogue certificates following a targeted security breach at the company. It continues an alarming trend of security… Read More