Category: Mozilla

Download Firefox OS For The PC, Mac And Linux

By | July 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Download Firefox OS For PC, Mac And LinuxCodenamed “Boot 2 Gecko”.

With the recent announcement of Firefox OS for the handheld devices, Mozilla has made a minor splash in the tech community, mostly because of the superior alternatives that are already available (Android 4.1) and with more to come later this year: iOS 6 and Windows Phone 8 as well as BlackBerry OS 10.
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Mozilla Aims To Improve Your Experience

By | May 28, 2012 | 14 Comments

Mozilla Aims To Improve Your ExperienceLaunches more “Are We” web sites.

As you might know, Mozilla has a couple of sites that help users to tracks Firefox’s progress, such as:

AreWePrettyYet.com (for design improvements), CanWeShipYet.com (for bug countdown) and AreWeFastYet.com (for performance tracking).

Now, it looks like the open source organization will be extending its portfolio with a couple more gems, those include:
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Europe And USA To Investigate Mozilla’s Claims

By | May 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

Europe And USA To Investigate Mozilla's ClaimsJust slightly more than a week ago, Mozilla and Google have accused Microsoft of using unfair practices to block competitive browsers on their Windows 8 RT platform, now, it looks like things did not get unnoticed.

Recently, the US Senate Judiciary Committee has announced that they will investigate allegations of the anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft. In addition to that, the European Commission will be joining the party as well.
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Mozilla Blames Microsoft, Says They Block Other Browsers

By | May 10, 2012 | 31 Comments

Mozilla Blames Microsoft, Says They Block Other Browsers

Forgets about the iPad.

Here is some drama for a Thursday night. In the tablet market where Apple pretty much dominates it with a healthy 90% market share mark (in terms of shipments), Mozilla decided to complain about no other than Microsoft, which, according to them, will not allow other browsers than IE to run in the Windows Classic mode on an ARM based, Windows RT OS.
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Video Interview With Mozilla’s Chief of Innovation

By | May 9, 2012 | 5 Comments

During the CTIA Wireless show, Myriam Joire from Engadget has had a chance to sit with Mozilla’s Chief of Innovation, Todd Simpson, and chat about the company and its future.

What is it all about? Windows Phone, Gecko and … Firefox version numbering!

Mozilla To Unify The UI, Shows Firefox Metro Mockups

By | May 3, 2012 | 33 Comments

Mozilla To Unify UI, Shows Firefox Metro Mockups

Following Microsoft’s lead to bring the consistent UI experience across a variety of different devices with Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Mozilla has combined its desktop and mobile UI teams to create the uniform look.
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Mozilla, Microsoft Not Happy With CISPA

By | May 2, 2012 | 4 Comments

Mozilla, Microsoft Not Happy With CISPA

As “shocking” as it might sound, it looks like everyone’s hated CISPA is not supported by Microsoft and Mozilla as well.

Citing privacy concerns, both corporations have issued the following statements:
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Clueless Internet Explorer Team Continues A 2 Year Development Cycle

By | April 13, 2012 | 35 Comments

Clueless Internet Explorer Team Continues A 2 Year Development Cycle

It doesn’t exactly help to compete when you release updates only once in two years and according to the recently published roadmap, things aren’t about to change.
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Mozilla Launches BrowserQuest MMO

By | March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

A HTML5 based game.

Just to show us, how powerful the new web standards can be and what they hold for the future, Mozilla has teamed up with the Little Workshop studios to develop a HTML5 adventure game, which as you might have guessed, runs in your web browser.
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Windows 8 Version Of Firefox Coming

By | February 13, 2012 | 8 Comments

Promises seamless Metro integration.

As you might know, Windows 8 will expand Microsoft’s Metro UI, which is currently utilized by Windows Phone, Xbox Dashboard and other software giant products.

Trying to jump ahead everyone but Internet Explorer, which will also have a version specific for the Metro user interface, Mozilla has revealed its plans to create a “Firefox on Metro” for the upcoming Windows 8 OS.

What so special about it?
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