Category: Firefox
October, 2009 – Firefox, Safari and Chrome Market Share Goes Up; IE, Opera – Down
It’s that day of the month again, when we check and let you know, which web browser is becoming more and/or less popular. So let’s begin.
Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer lost more market share and went down from 65.71% to 64.64% (1.07 point decrease).
Celebrating its 5th birthday, Firefox market share went up from 23.75% to 24.07% (0.32 point increase). Continue Reading
Happy Birthday, Firefox
November 9, 2004, that’s when Firefox 1.0 was released. Today, 5 years later, with over 330 million users and a big chunk of market share, Firefox is celebrating its 5th birthday.
Happy Birthday!
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 9th
- Microsoft Issues Bug Fix For Recent Internet Explorer Update
- Firefox Now The Most Vulnerable Browser?
- Mozilla aborted IE in Firefox clothing, Google we’re not
- Expand shortened web addresses in Firefox
- Google closes vulnerabilities in Chrome 3
- Opera could be headed for the iPhone
- Bug in Safari browser in iPhone has surfaced
Thanks to mabdul for links.
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Firefox 3.5.5 Released
As Firefox 3.6 nears its release, Mozilla has finished one more stability update for Firefox 3.5 branch.
Version 3.5.5 fixes a total of 5 bugs and can be downloaded from the following page.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 2nd
- Security fixes, JavaScript update bog down Internet Explorer 8
- Light the World with Firefox
- 3+ Awesome Ways to Make Sense of FireFox Tabs
- Beware the Fake Google Chrome OS Download
- Google sued for Courgette updates for Chrome web browser
- Opera Unite: Application of the Week
- Browser speed comparison – HTC HD2 vs Acer neoTouch vs iPhone 3GS
- Camino 2 Release Candidate Available for Download
- Flock Releases Spanish Language Web Browser
Thanks to Nox for links.
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How to Enable Firefox 3.6 Tab Preview?
Here’s how you can enable tab preview in Firefox 3.6:
Type the following line into your address bar:
about:config
Look for:
browser.allTabs.previews
browser.ctrlTab.previews
Set both to true.
Use Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to get a list of opened ones.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Now Available
Mozilla has released a very first beta of Firefox 3.6 series web browser.
As we mentioned some time earlier, the following version now includes:
Personas support (aka light themes)
WOFF font format support
New CSS, DOM and HTML5 technologies support
Add-ons update notifications
Tabs preview
Improved JavaScript and overall performance
And few other changes
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SeaMonkey 2.0 Final Hits the Streets
A new version of all-in-one Internet application suite SeaMonkey has been released.
What exactly SeaMonkey is?
It’s a web browser (Firefox platform), Mail and Newsgroups client (Thunderbird platform), HTML Editor, ChatZilla IRC chat application, DOM inspector and a little bit more.
SeaMonkey 2.0 changes:
The following release includes various new features, such as: new add-on manager, session restore, tabbed mail, reworked download manager and lots of other improvements.
Thanks to Nox for news tip.
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Firefox 3.5.4 and 3.0.15 Released, 100+ Bugs Fixed
Today, Mozilla has released security and stability updates for Firefox 3.5 and 3.0 web browser branches.
Firefox 3.5.4 fixes a total of 124 bugs, where 11 of them are security vulnerabilities.
Firefox 3.0.14 now includes 10 security and 15 other fixes.
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Flash Re-Enabled on Fennec 1.9.2
The latest Fennec (Firefox Mobile) nightly build now includes Flash support which was disabled some time earlier.
As this is not a final release, you may experience some issues, so use on your own risk.
