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Mozilla Keeps Track With The Questions

By Vygantas | March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments

Mozilla Keeps Track With The Questions You have probably already heard of Mozilla’s Are WeFastYet web site which keeps tracking the performance of web browser engines. Turns out, this site is not the only one.

AreWePrettyYet informs users about the future Firefox versions appearance while CanWeShipYet displays the number of blockers, which of course should be 0 (like it is now).

Thanks, Blake!

Firefox 4: 5 Million Downloads in 24 Hours

By Vygantas | March 23, 2011 | 11 Comments

Firefox 4: 5 Million Downloads in 24 Hours

Just last week, Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 has been downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours.

Well, it looks like Mozilla has doubled the numbers with 5 million Firefox 4 downloads in the same time period and has now passed 7 million downloads mark.

Firefox 3 on the other hand did even better and was downloaded more than 8 million times.

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Download Firefox 4 Final

By Vygantas | March 22, 2011 | 13 Comments

Although the final version of Firefox 4 web browser is yet to be announced, it’s already available on the official Mozilla servers and can be downloaded here.

Firefox 4 marks the end of slow release cycles as both, Firefox 5 and 6 are set for this year’s launch.

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Mozilla: We Support 10 Year Old OS

By Vygantas | March 22, 2011 | 7 Comments

Mozilla: We Support 10 Year Old OS Hate the web browser.

Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla’s director of Firefox web browser has criticized Microsoft for abandoning a 10 year old Windows XP operating system and releasing IE9 for Windows 7/Vista only.

He said:

For me, the most interesting thing is not the quibbling about what browser [boasts] full hardware acceleration. What surprises me the most is that acceleration is not available for Windows XP.