Mozilla Firefox
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Analysts: IE won't be easy to defeat
News "Overwhelming dominance" of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser will be difficult to topple, in spite of attempts by competitors such as Firefox and Chrome.
Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Web Browser, International Data Corp., Mozilla Firefox, software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, vice president, analyst
IE8: User interface above performance
News Microsoft prioritized Internet Explorer 8's user interface over performance benchmarking when building the browser, according to a Microsoft executive.
Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Inc., Search Engine, Mozilla Firefox, performance, software, search bar, Internet
No thanks, Google--we've got Ubuntu
Insight perspective If there is one problem the open source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's fragmentation. Google is about to make it worse.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, Ubuntu, Linux Community, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Distribution, Linux
HP to offer Suse desktop Linux to small businesses
News Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop will be offered with the HP Compaq dc5850 to business and education customers in the United States for US$519.
Tags: Business applications, Linux, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Small Business, Novell Inc., Desktop Linux, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, SuSE
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News Mozilla's Developer Tools Lab has released its first prototype--a Web-based, collaborative code-editing framework called Bespin.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Authoring, Software engineering/development, Ubiquity, Web Browser, Open Source, Tool, Developer, standards compliance
Safari challenges Chrome on Web app speed
News Google's browser rules the roost when it comes to JavaScript speed, but Safari is the first to come anywhere close on Google's V8 benchmark.
Tags: Web browsers, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Application, Beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, performance, Apple Safari
Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability
Techguide In a surprise move, Microsoft decided to install what could amount to a massive security vulnerability in Firefox without user knowledge. Find out the company's stance, and how you can undo the damage.
Tags: Security Management, Network security, Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, computer, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chad Perrin
Adobe to fix critical Flash hole next week
News Company expects to have updates late next week for Flash, Reader to fix critical hole being reportedly exploited in attacks.
Tags: Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Shockwave Flash, Plug-in, Web Browser, Vulnerability, Apple Macintosh, Adobe Acrobat
Google update stomps Chrome browser bugs
News The latest developer version of Google's Web browser gets a handful of bug fixes and a safer download mechanism.
Tags: Web browsers, Open source, Security, Google Chrome, Web Browser, Google Inc., Plug-in, Video, dynamic-link library, Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla CEO: Chrome was inevitable
News John Lilly says he welcomes the challenge that Google's new browser poses to Firefox and that Mozilla will continue its financial relationship with Google until 2011.
Tags: Web browsers, Open source, Security, Web Browser, Google Inc., Search Engine, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, performance, JavaScript
Silverlight open source implementation released
News The Mono project this week made the first public release of Moonlight, an open source implementation of the Silverlight rich media browser tech.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Business applications, Multimedia, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Novell Inc., Apple Mac OS, intellectual property, Mozilla Firefox
Firefox-syncing Weave updates to beta
News Mozilla's homegrown tool for synchronizing Firefox across computers and devices graduates to beta and introduces incremental syncing and a more streamlined, less obtrusive experience.
Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, Computer, Web sites, Web Browser, Tool, On-demand, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., Beta
Alterna-browsers Firefox, Chrome get quick fixes
News Just eight days after a previous update, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 introduces fast fixes for three bugs, one of which was critical. Google Chrome has also been updated for security and stability.
Tags: Web browsers, Browser, Google Inc., Security, Browser, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5, Copy Image Feature, Web Browser, Web browsers, Apple Macintosh
New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes
News Third beta imposes new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.
Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, performance
Is paranoid cookie management for you?
Techguide How much paranoia you employ in Web cookie management determines how much work you must put in, and which strategies you'll use.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Cookie, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Clear, Chad Perrin, Mozilla Firefox
