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Firefox Nightly And Aurora Logos Refreshed

By | July 3, 2013 | 2 Comments

Firefox Nightly and Aurora logos also get updated

Recently, guys at Mozilla have updated the Firefox logo with a new one. Now, it looks like Nightly and Aurora logos have too been redesigned. Anyway, just a quick heads up in case you start freaking out.

[Via: MozillaLinks]

Google Chrome 27 vs. Firefox 22 vs. Opera 15 vs. Internet Explorer 10

By | July 2, 2013 | 9 Comments

Google Chrome 27 vs. Firefox 22 vs. Opera 15 vs. Internet Explorer 10New web browser benchmark results are here.

With fresh releases from almost every company, guys at TomsHardware did a series of tests on their Windows 8 machine to find out exactly, which browser should you chose if you are not tied to a specific UI or add-ons that are exclusive to one ecosystem.

Although Internet Explorer 11 is missing from action, we expect to see updated results fairly soon.
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Firefox OS Sees Great Developer Interest

By | July 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Firefox OS Sees Great Developer InterestFor the mobile OS that is yet to be launched, it looks like Mozilla’s Firefox OS was received pretty enthusiastically in the developer community. As it turns outs, 25% of all mobile developers have expressed their interest in Firefox OS, beating BlackBerry and Tizen devices.

In addition to that, the survey also shows a 35% interest in the HTML mobile apps, which is exactly what Mozilla is gambling on.

And this is what it looks like in a visual format:
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Meet Firefox’s New Logo

By | July 1, 2013 | 2 Comments

Meet Firefox's New LogoShadows will remain.

Now here is something uneventful yet still very worth mentioning: a new Firefox logo, which was designed with mobile in mind.

How so? According to Mozilla, it was optimized to look crisper and cleaner on devices with small screens yet would still scale really well on high resolution displays (such as qHD resolution Windows 8.1 ultrabooks and tablets).
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Download Firefox 22 Final

By | June 26, 2013 | 9 Comments

Download Firefox 22 FinalOdinMonkey is here.

Just recently, Mozilla has released the final stable build of Firefox 22 web browser, which brings some very welcome changes and new features.

So what exactly does it bring to the table? As we mentioned earlier, Firefox 22 now has WebRTC and brilliant asm.js optimizations module enabled by default, which will bring amazing performance improvements to your web browser.
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Microsoft Adds Pointer Events To Firefox

By | June 18, 2013 | 3 Comments

Microsoft Adds Pointer Events To Firefox

Back in 2012, Microsoft has started working on Pointer Events, a new web standard (which is already marked as a Candidate Recommendation by W3C) that would allow web sites to accept inputs from quite a few different sources, such as a touchscreen and pen, has now gained even more traction.

Just before year’s end, Microsoft released a patch that brought Pointer Events specifications to all WebKit web browsers, followed by Blink patch earlier this year.
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Interview With Mozilla’s Vice President Of Firefox Engineering

By | June 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

Interview With Mozilla's Vice President Of Firefox EngineeringGood morning,

If you are hungry for some answers (and PR fluff), guys at Engadget did a pretty good interview with Johnathan Nightingale, the VP of Firefox Engineering, asking about Internet Explorer (and Google Chrome) dominance, mobile gaming, WebRTC and much more.

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Energy Efficiency Benchmarks: Internet Explorer 10 vs. Google Chrome 26 vs. Firefox 21

By | June 6, 2013 | 16 Comments

Energy Efficiency Benchmarks: Internet Explorer 10 vs. Google Chrome 26 vs. Firefox 21Microsoft funded study confirms that IE is the best.

Back in 2011, we compared IE9 and its competitors to see which one consumes the least amount of power. Spoiler alert: Internet Explorer won and Opera lost heavily.

Well, guys at Fraunhofer Inc. decided to download Internet Explorer 10, Google Chrome 26 and Mozilla Firefox 21 and do a study of their own.

Here are the results:
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Download Firefox 25 Pre-Alpha With UI Changes

By | June 5, 2013 | 33 Comments

Download Firefox 25 Pre-Alpha With UI ChangesAnother Chrome clone in the making.

Back in 2012, Mozilla promised to overhaul the overall UI in the upcoming Firefox 19 release (see screenshot below). Well, that did not happen.

Now, it looks like someone from Mozilla has finally decided to deliver these promised changes with Firefox 25, which is set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2013.
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First Firefox OS Tablet Revealed

By | June 4, 2013 | 6 Comments

First Firefox OS Tablet Revealed

Two foxes don’t make a bear.

As reported back in May, Foxconn and Mozilla have recently announced a strategic partnership and Firefox OS tablet.

What about the details? There aren’t any, journalists weren’t even allowed to touch a tablet. Talk about a reveal.