10 Cool Firefox Add-Ons

This is a must-read for Firefox fans! We’ll review 10 cool add-ons that will make your cross-platform Mozilla web browser even better. We’ll review add-ons to help fix annoyances, save time, discover advanced functionality, and stay connected. Lets get started!
#1 NewTabURL to control your new tab page
One of my pet peeves about tabbed web browsers [...]

Firefox 3.5.8 and 3.0.18 now available for download

As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download:
Firefox 3.5.7: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Firefox 3.0.17: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to these releases. If you already have Firefox, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to [...]

Install Mozilla Firefox Web Browser v3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Install Mozilla Firefox Web Browser v3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10
Today Mozilla has released the latest version of their flagship Web Browser, Firefox v3.6. This release brings a number of enhancements as well as bug fixes. In this article I will outline how to manually install the latest Mozilla Firefox release alongside [...]

Weave 1.0 now available for download

Mozilla has released Weave 1.0, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what.
So far, synchronization includes bookmarks, [...]

Firefox 3.6 tips and tweak

Here are five quick tips to enhance your Firefox 3.6 experience.
1. Open links in the tab bar far right
In Firefox 3.6, links opened from a web page (middle-clicking on them or from the context menu) open to the right of the current page to keep related content closer by default. To restore the previous behavior, [...]

Firefox 3.6 now available for download

Planned as a minor update to Firefox 3.5, released last June, Namoroka (Firefox 3.6’s code name) is not only the quickest Firefox release but the first featuring Mozilla’s new beta approach: a single big beta release that gets frequently revised, and updated, keeping all beta users in the most current test lane.
The result: perhaps the [...]

Firefox 3.6 Boosts Speed, Tabs, HTML 5 and CSS

Six months after the last big Firefox release, Mozilla today is rolling out Firefox 3.6. The new browser, which began its life under the codename “Namaroka”, includes numerous enhancement over its predecessor, Firefox 3.5.
Mozilla developers issued multiple alpha milestones, five beta releases and two release candidates over the last six months on the road to [...]

Firefox Privacy Policy Updates for 3.6 Release

Firefox 3.6 has some new features, like Personas being part of the browser itself. As such, we have taken this opportunity to review and update our privacy policy. Privacy and data protection are important issues to the people of Mozilla. So we are looking at all the terms of this policy and [...]

Firefox 3.6 Privacy Policy

Firefox 3.6 has some new features, like Personas being part of the browser itself. As such, we have taken this opportunity to review and update our privacy policy. Privacy and data protection are important issues to the people of Mozilla. So we are looking at all the terms of this policy and [...]

German government IE warning leads to spike in Firefox downloads

Following a warning last Friday from the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI) concerning the security hole in Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla has said that it has recorded a “huge increase” in the number of Firefox downloads in Germany. According to a post by Mozilla’s Ken Kovash on [...]

Firefox juggles plans

Firefox has dropped version 3.7 from its roadmap and will roll out new features in the next few weeks together with 3.6.
The Mozilla Foundation this week released a next-to-final version of its next major release, Firefox 3.6. At the same time the company announced last-minute plans which include dropping the planned 3.7 release completely.
The move [...]

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 2 is available for download

(see this same post in HTML format here: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2010/01/17/firefox-3-6-release-candidate-updated/ )
An update to the Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is now available. This second release candidate is available for free download at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-rc.html and has been issued as an automatic update to all Firefox 3.6 Beta and Release Candidate users.
More information about the Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate [...]

Mozilla drops Firefox 3.7, switches to “Feature Updates”

Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner has said that after Firefox 3.6, there will be no Firefox 3.7. Instead regular “feature updates” will be pushed to users. The plan to change how updates to Firefox are managed was disclosed in an interview with Computerworld. The original plan was to have a Firefox 3.6 release early in 2010, and [...]

Testing Chromium on Ubuntu

I’ve read a lot about Google’s Chrome browser in the blogosphere, but have yet to see it being used in the wild. Given this observation, and my increasingly strained relationship with Firefox, I decided to give Chromium, the open-source browser on which Chrome is based, another try. Here’s what I found.
I’ve been a Firefox [...]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 RC1

The Mozilla developers have announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC1) for what will become version 3.6 of their open source Firefox web browser, code-named Namoroka. As with the previous development releases, Firefox 3.6 RC1 is based on version 1.9.2 of Mozilla’s Gecko web rendering platform. The RC1 release includes over 70 [...]

Firefox 3.5.7 and 3.0.17 now available for download

As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download:
Firefox 3.5.7: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Firefox 3.0.17: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to these releases. If you already have Firefox, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to [...]

Firefox 3.5 Overtakes IE7, At Least for Now

In the beginning, there was Netscape and its Navigator — perhaps not exactly the beginning, but close enough. Then came Microsoft and Internet Explorer, launching the first browser war, and eventually, the death of Netscape and a massive anti-trust trial for Microsoft. IE has retained the market dominance it gained by Netscape’s downfall to the [...]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 5

The Mozilla developers have announced the availability of the fifth beta for what will become version 3.6 of their open source Firefox web browser, code-named Namoroka. Like the previous development releases, Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 is based on version 1.9.2 of Mozilla’s Gecko web rendering platform.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 5, likely the last beta release [...]

Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 now available for download

As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Firefox 3.5.6 and Firefox 3.0.16 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download:
Firefox 3.5.6: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Firefox 3.0.16: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to these releases. If you already have Firefox, you will receive an automated update [...]

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 now available for download

This morning the Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 4, and issued an update for all Firefox 3.6 beta users. This update contains over 100 fixes from the last Firefox 3.6 beta, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. Almost 70% of the thousands of Firefox Add-ons have now been upgraded by [...]