Firefox

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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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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Useful Firefox Extensions

by Jeff Weisbein August 9, 2008

Firefox is a common browser alternative to Internet Explorer on Windows or Safari on the Mac. One of the things I love about Firefox is the extensions available for it. There are an abundance to choose from that extend functionality and/or add features. My most commonly used extensions include the following: Tab Mix Plus provides [...]

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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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Firefox 3 RC 1 Initial Thoughts

by Jeff Weisbein May 22, 2008

Firefox 3 RC 1 to me, shows a much improved browser, one that will be the browser to beat in the coming months. There are a number of improvements that extend to almost every aspect of the browser itself – from password management to a more intuitive user interface. Let’s break down some of the [...]

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