Chrome Passes Safari To Become #3 Most Used Browser In U.S.
According to StatCounter, Chrome just edged out Safari to become the third most widely used browser in the United States, claiming 8.97% of the market share to Safari's 8.88%. I guess people really...
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Mozilla Submits Firefox Home App, Awaits Apple's Approval
There will be nervous pacing at the Mozilla offices over the coming hours and days, thanks to the browser maker submitting its iPhone sync app Firefox Home to Apple—will it get the divine thumbs-up?...
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Burning Brighter: The Future of Firefox, Browsers and the Web
Remember the Browser Wars of the Aughts? Internet Exploder gripped the web. Firefox 1.0 challenged the king. Six years later, IE is waning. (But still strong.) WebKit rules smartphones. Where does...
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Delete Your Ex From The Internet
Breaking up is hard to do, especially in the age of the internet. How can you really avoid her when there's Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of it? With the new Ex-Blocker plugin, that's how. More »
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Firefox Home iPhone App Approved and Available Now
It's been a while since we first heard about Firefox Home, an app which allows you to sync your desktop browsing session to your iPhone, but it's been approved by Apple and is available in the iTunes...
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With Firefox's Tab Candy Feature, We'll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana
I never would have thought that an improvement in tab technology would have me fist-pumping in front of my computer, but this video preview for Firefox's forthcoming Tab Candy feature, which spatially...
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Apple Safari Update Activates New Browser Extensions (And It's Pretty Sweet)
Apple has released Safari 5.0.1, which activates extensions. They have some nice stuff lined up in their extension gallery, from Twitter, Bing, or Major League Baseball, Amazon, and eBay. It's nice to...
View ArticleFirefox 4 Beta 3 Update Available Now For Multi-Touch Windows 7 Users
It's a small update, but a good 'un—well, for anyone using Windows 7 with a multi-touch monitor. A few other minor upgrades have also been included, such as new JavaScript values for faster graphics....
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Study Shows People Often Take Ten-Minute "Private Browsing" Breaks...
While we still don't know for certain just what it is that people look at when they switch Firefox to the "private browsing" mode, we do now know when they're most likely to use it—and for how long....
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H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Internet Video Forever, Kinda, Mozilla Still...
MPEG LA, the group that licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. Update: Kinda. But Mozilla thinks the better part of...
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Fennec Alpha Released For Android And Nokia N900
An early, pre-alpha version of Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser has been around for months, but the Firefox developer has today released an official full alpha for download. And it's not just Android...
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Firefox Browser Will Never See the Light of Day on an iPhone
In a blog post talking about the future of Firefox Home (their iPhone app that syncs Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs from desktop to iPhone), Mozilla dashed any dreams we possessed of a true...
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Android and Maemo Phones Can Grab Beta Version of Firefox 4 Now
Growing up from the early alpha build, Firefox 4 has entered the beta metamorphosis for Android and Maemo phones. It includes Firefox Sync (for desktop-to-phone favorites, like Firefox Home will be);...
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12-Year-Old's Firefox Security Flaw Discovery Nets $3,000 Payday
At 12 years old, I successfully conquered a pile of dirt when I moved it from one side of my yard to the other. Alex Miller, currently 12, conquered a difficult Firefox security flaw, earning $3,000...
View ArticleFirefox 4 Delayed Until 2011
Firefox's director Mike Beltzner has confirmed that Firefox 4 (expected later this year, with HTML 5 and multitouch support amongst others) has actually been delayed until early next year, as it's...
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How To Protect Your Accounts From Firesheep Hijacking on a Mac
Firesheep, the packet-sniffing Firefox plug-in that grazes on (and then BURNS!!!) public Wi-Fi networks, could leave your Facebook or Twitter account compromised. FireShepherd arrived last week to...
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Using the Moto Atrix Notebook-Slash-Smartphone
The Atrix is a pretty great phone by itself—two 1GHz cores and 1GB of RAM makes things speedy—but it's even more useful when you dock it into their laptop for heavy duty computering. More »
View ArticleBanish Charlie Sheen from the Internet with This Plugin
WINNING! TIGERBLOOD! I BEAT MY WIFE! COCAINE! If you're getting sick of the Charlie Sheen internet locomotive, this handy Chrome and Firefox plugin—"Tinted Sheen"—will blot out all text and image...
View ArticleMozilla Firefox 4 RC Now Available for Download
Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux is out of beta and available as a stable release candidate. Note that add-ons may not have been tested yet by their developers, but this gorgeous browser...
View ArticleFirefox VP Thinks Flash Is Crazy Too
When asked a question whether Flash is going to become irrelevant, Jay Sullivan, VP of Products, said: More »
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