Despite growing anticipation for Firefox 4, developers have delayed its release until next year. In a move that will both disappoint fans and potentially undermine its claim on the browser market, the Mozilla Foundation has said it will delay the release of Firefox 4 until 2011. Originally scheduled for release later this year, apparent problems [...]

A trojan recently analysed by Webroot is said to rely on retrieving web page passwords from a browser’s password storage, rather than logging a user’s keyboard inputs. To make sure it will find all the interesting passwords in Firefox, the malware, called PWS-Nslog, makes some changes to jog the browser’s memory. A few manipulations in [...]

If you tend to have a large number of tabs open at a time, get ready to experiment considerably faster session restores thanks to cascaded session restore (CSR), an optimized approach that loads a limited number of tabs at a time (3 by default) when Firefox restarts. In recent Firefox 4 nightlies, it prioritizes the [...]

Firefox 4.0 is still a bit away from final release, but the time to think about switching is now. The Mozilla Project is releasing Firefox 4.0 beta 6 this week, and the current builds are really good. Why switch? I’ll give you five excellent reasons to jump on the 4.0 train today. One of the [...]

Brand new Firefox 4.0 is on its final descent. Be it the introduction of awesome TabCandy feature or the new super fast “JaegerMonkey” JavaScript engine, Firefox 4.0 is all over the news for all the right reasons. I think this is the best time to introduce some cool Firefox commercials/videos. Take a look. Read and [...]

Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard in an interview about the rising competition by Google Chrome, the evolution of the web platform and the prospects for WebM Over the last few years Firefox enjoyed the role of the rising star in the browser world. Nowadays Google Chrome seems to have taken that very spot, currently even grabbing some [...]

Mozilla is out with a new beta version of Firefox 4, which is a major upgrade to the browser. You can download the update now, and Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner has a good post up about it on The Mozilla Blog. The new release fully incorporates Sync, which is functionality long found in Mozilla’s Weave project, [...]

As expected, the latest Firefox 4 nightlies feature Firefox Sync, Mozilla’s service that lets you synchronize your bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, preferences, and other customizations among devices that support Sync: Firefox for desktops, for Maemo devices, and Firefox Home on the iPhone. Just like the original Firefox Sync extension, its preferences are integrated with Firefox [...]

Mozilla piles on the features in Firefox 4 browser. The impending final release of Firefox 4 is something of a big deal for the Mozilla Foundation. Over the past year the popular open source browser has been facing some stiff competition from the likes of Google’s Chrome and, even, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Around a [...]

The Mozilla community is proud to announce that Firefox 4 Beta 3 is now available for download on Mac, Windows or Linux at http://www.firefox.com/beta Firefox 4 Beta 2 includes several major features and improvements – by testing them early we’ll be able to respond to your feedback for future versions of Firefox. The included Feedback [...]

According to Mozilla User Experience Specialist Alexander Faaborg, the next major release of the Firefox web browser – version 4.0 – will feature a built-in silent update system that will automatically apply updates to the open source browser as they become available. However, in a post on the mozilla.dev.apps.firefox Google Group, Faaborg says that only [...]