Mozilla

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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Review: Songbird Media Player

by Mike Mansell April 24, 2010

As I’ve discussed before, I use Firefly Media Server to stream media from my home server to iTunes clients within my network. However, I also have a certain amount of music stored on my local hard drive. For a while now, I’ve been using foobar2000 to manage, index, and listen to music stored on my [...]

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Mozilla Says No Firefox OS, Chrome for Mac Beta Lacks Features, and more!

by Jeff Weisbein December 4, 2009

I’m going to attempt something new, so tell me how you like it as well as your thoughts in the comments. The plan is to make a new video every Friday of the top 5 or so tech stories during the week and recap them with my own thoughts. I’m still tweaking the format and [...]

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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 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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Google Chrome Adds Plugin Functionality

by Jeff Weisbein May 14, 2009

Google Chrome is slowly but surely inching closer and closer to becoming a serious Mozilla Firefox competitor. In recent developer builds of the browser new APIs have been found to allow for true browser extensions (or add-ons). In the latest developer releases of Chrome it offers some improved APIs and tools for developers who would [...]

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Download Firefox 3 Early

by Jeff Weisbein June 17, 2008

If you are one of those people who cannot wait to download the new Firefox (Version 3) as I am, you can use the link below to obtain a copy directly from the Mozilla website. Download Firefox 3 I was messing with the current download URL for Firefox 2.0.0.14 and thought I would try replacing [...]

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