Firefox

Google Chrome’s Impressive Market Share Growth Explained

by Jeff Weisbein January 2, 2012

Why has Google Chrome been successful in gaining market share against Internet Explorer? Can Chrome continue to gain market share?

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RockMelt Review: One Year Later

by Jeff Weisbein November 1, 2011

A review of the social browser RockMelt and look at how it’s doing one year after its release to the public.

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Firefox Losing Market Share Quickly to Rival Browsers

by Mike Mansell October 3, 2011

June 18th of 2008 was a very big day for me and millions of savvy Internet users around the world. Although never being the kind of person to get overly excited for release dates, I took a special exception for this event; getting up early and immediately firing up my computer in sheer anticipation of [...]

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Firefox Support Cycle Draws Criticism From System Administrators

by Mike Mansell June 28, 2011

On June 17th of 2008, three years and less than two weeks ago, Mozilla Corporation released the 3.0 version of the Firefox web browser; a promising and steadily growing web browser than many people, myself included, thought would finally take a stab at the dominance held by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. I remember the day well [...]

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Mozilla to Release Firefox 4, 5, 6, and 7 in 2011

by Jeff Weisbein February 7, 2011

It’s no secret that Google has been actively developing Google Chrome the past several months. In fact, there is a new version of Google Chrome roughly every six weeks. However, while Google has been developing, Mozilla has been trudging along with Firefox 3. The browser which everyone was raving about not too long ago is slowly [...]

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TechCrunch Sues FusionGarage, Aol. Spins Off, and Apple Tablet for $1,000?

by Jeff Weisbein December 12, 2009

Tech News from 12-7-09 through 12-11-09. This week includes TechCrunch suing FusionGarage for stealing the CrunchPad. Mozilla is launching Firefox Mobile for Nokia phones, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. No Firefox Mobile for the iPhone has been mentioned yet (that I have seen). By the way, Firefox Mobile will support extensions such as Adblock. [...]

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What Is A Web Browser?

by Jeff Weisbein October 7, 2009

Which web browser do you use? And more importantly, what is a web browser? Believe it or not, most people do not know which web browser they are using (or even what it is) on a daily basis. A web browser is a free (typically) piece of software that you install on your computer to [...]

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Firefox 3.5 Released

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009

Firefox 3.5 is now available for download – get your copy before the servers become overloaded. What’s new in Firefox 3.5? Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and [...]

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Firefox 3.5 Focuses On Privacy

by Matt Hodges June 23, 2009

A few days ago, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate, and the world’s second most popular web browser is sporting some nifty new features. Firstly, Firefox 3.5 contains addition speed improvements from the previous releases. Mozilla claims that Firefox 2 averaged page load times of about 18,000 milliseconds, Firefox 3 at roughly 4,000 milliseconds, and [...]

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Firefox Extensions Cause Web Pages To Load Slower

by Jeff Weisbein June 12, 2009

It’s no secret that Firefox extensions can potentially cause Firefox to become slower and less responsive during the course of using it throughout the day. What some people may not realize is that too many extensions can actually cause web pages to load much slower than they otherwise should. I recently downloaded the Opera 10 [...]

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