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Mozilla is planning to shunt 12 million users, who are still surfing the web on its aged Firefox 3.5 browser, over to a more recent version. “We need a plan to obsolete [sic] Firefox 3.5 as we can’t support it into perpetuity,” said Mozilla.

“We have been frustrated with our efforts [...]

I’m probably not the only user who thinks that the increase in Firefox builds has made it difficulty to keep up to date with the latest features and improvements. Just like Google Chrome, it has gotten to a point where I’m less interested in keeping track of the development progress. The [...]

One of the biggest issues that I personally have with Firefox, and that for a very long time, is the fact that add-on preferences are not deleted when the add-on that has written them to the config is uninstalled in the browser. This means that the config file grows over [...]

After the release of Firefox 4, Firefox moved to an accelerated, Chrome-like channel system, starting with the bleeding-edge Aurora version of Firefox 5. Today they’ve released the Beta version, which will let you take advantage of its performance increases in a more stable environment.

If the stable version of [...]

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is the culmination of nearly a year-long quest to build a browser for the next version of the web. And while it’s not perfect, it comes very, very close.

The open-source browser is now available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Originally envisioned as [...]

Mozilla has decided to stop all development of Firefox on Microsoft Windows Mobile. Although the browser was nearing completion on Windows CE 6, the organization has determined that Windows Phone 7 is not a viable platform for future versions of Firefox.

Microsoft has been excitedly promoting it’s Windows Phone 7 Series since [...]

No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox is the gold standard of alternatives to the still-dominant Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is full-featured, lightning fast, and secure. Its killer selection of add-ons remains strong, with built-in support for the next generation of themes, called Personas, plus the latest update makes version 3.6 about 20 percent [...]

A few weeks back I was using Google Chrome to browse the net, and then my firewall went nuts — it appeared as though all kinds of bugs were installing themselves on my system, and I couldn’t stop them. Well, after running several different anti-spyware, adware, and anti-virus utilities, my PC was labeled as “clean”, [...]

There’s a lot to report from the browser world – and this time it is now about Microsoft and the choice screen (see here, here, and here). Let’s get things started with the Mozilla Foundation and its product, the Firefox browser. The latest iteration, Firefox 3.6, was released by Mozilla late this January. [...]