The Electronic Frontier Foundation gives the nod to Mozilla’s Firefox behavioral tracking opt-out tool over Google’s Chrome Keep My Opt Outs browser extension. Find out why here. – Mozilla Firefox received the early edge over the Google Chrome Web browser
in a head-to-head match-up of software tools that let users elude ad-tracking
cookies, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Mozilla Jan. 23 introduced its Do Not Track HTTP header that will allow users
to opt…
Mozilla wants to address online behavioral tracking by advertisers with a "Do Not Track" feature for the Firefox browser. – Mozilla is planning to take its own shot at improving user privacy controls online.
The company is looking to add a new feature to its Firefox browser that would enable users to opt-out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers. The move follows a December report from the U.S. Federal Trade …
Mozilla Jan. 14 rolled out its latest Firefox 4 beta version for users to test. Expect much better speed and performance, as well as Panorama technology for better group tabbing. – Mozilla released its new
Firefox 4 browser beta to the public Jan. 14, offering a new look with an
emphasis on speed for users to play with on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Performance enhancements rev up start-up time,
page-loading and accelerate Web application and games. Mozilla’s Kraken
performan…
The beta offers easier account and new device setup for Firefox Sync and expanded support for 3D graphics. – Applications developer Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 4 beta, the latest version of the companys popular Web browsing application. The beta offers easier account and new device setup for Firefox Sync, expanded support for 3D graphics in the browser and a revamped Firefox Add-ons Manager, a…
Microsofts new plug-in for Firefox supports HTML5 video on Windows 7. – Microsoft has released a new add-in for Firefox that supports HTML5 video on Windows.
As part of the interoperability bridges work
Microsofts Internet Explorer team does, the company created a new
Firefox add-on that enables Firefox users on Windows to play
H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using…
The Opera Mobile 10.1 beta runs on Android smartphones and brings tabbed browsing and other speed features as Opera continues to challenge Microsoft IE and Apple Mac Safari for space on the small screen. – A beta of the Opera Mobile 10.1 browser debuted on the Android
smartphone platform challenging established players including Microsoft
for control of the small screen.
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta was released on Nov. 9 and is available in
the Android market at no cost. Opera Mobile is similar …
RockMelt Nov. 7 launched to limited beta its social Web browser that lets users connect to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. This connection lets users post status updates and share other bits of content right from the browser window. The idea is that users needn’t go directly to Facebook and Twitter to share or even Google.com to search. Flock had a similar idea in 2007, but failed to catch on with the bulk of users even as Google Chrome carved out an 8.5 percent browser market share. RockMelt is actually a lot like Chrome in functionality, offering an incognito mode for private Web browsing. There is reason for this. RockMelt is built on top of Chromium, the open-source project that backs Chrome. Navigating amid the different social tools in RockMelt was a breeze, and this is where RockMelt is a cut above Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari Web browsers. Check out our initial RockMelt set-up and tour in this eWEEK slide show. – …
The alpha release of the Opera Web browser sets the stage for a Web app battle that is already being fought by Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome by girding itself with a standards-based framework for adding extensions to the Web browser. Opera also gained a new mail panel, bookmarks bar and HTML5 support and on-demand plug-in enablement. Opera hopes that using W3C Widgets and JavaScript as the base will enable Web developers to write Web applications that can be added to the Opera platform. Opera 11 alpha became available on Oct. 21 and can be downloaded at no cost. Besides extensions, other user-centric convenience features including bookmarks also got a makeover. The mail panel, which is intended to combine e-mail and news feeds, was not implemented in the early alpha version that I tested. To read the full review, click here. Or if you have experience with the Opera 11 alpha, share your thoughts athttp://labs.eweek.com. – …
An alpha version of the Opera cross-platform Web browser for Windows PC, Apple Mac and Linux systems, including mobile phones and game consoles, now has a framework for running extensions, new ways to integrate mail and news feeds, and a cleaned-up user interface. – The alpha release of the Opera Web browser
joins the Web app battle already being fought by Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox,
Apple Safari and Google Chrome by girding itself with a standards-based
framework for adding extensions to the Web browser. Opera also gained a new
mail panel, bookmarks bar…
Google’s Chrome Web browser boasts an 8.47 percent market share in October, taking points from Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, according to researcher Net Applications. – Google Chrome rose to 8.47 percent market share through October as the
upstart Web browser took small bits of share from leader Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Chrome had reached the cusp of 8 percent share through September before
easily vaulting over the barrier in the just-co…
Mozilla’s new Rainbow developer prototype enables developers to bring video and audio recording to Firefox. – Mozilla Labs has introduced Rainbow,
a new developer prototype that brings video and audio recording to Firefox 4.
In an Oct.
28 blog post, Anant Narayanan, an engineer at Mozilla Labs, said Rainbow
enables Web developers to access local video and audio recording capabilities
using just a few l…
Mozilla is warning users about a new critical vulnerability affecting Firefox. – A critical Mozilla Firefox zero-day has surfaced in the wild.
According to security researchers, an attack using the bug was
spotted Oct. 26, when the vulnerability was seen being exploited
to drop malware on unsuspecting visitors to the Nobel Peace
Prize Website.
Researchers at Norman AS…
Researchers showcased a new tool that can be used to take over the accounts of people using Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 sites on open wireless networks. – A pair of researchers has developed a new Firefox extension that can hijack accounts on Facebook and other Web 2.0 sites to demonstrate the threat posed by a lack of encryption.
Software developer Eric Butler and Ian “craSH” Gallagher created a tool they dubbed quot;Firesheep quot; to
bring the…
Mozilla has released its Firefox 4 beta 1 for Android and Nokia’s Maemo. It includes features such as Firefox Sync and improved performance, according to Mozilla. – Mozilla has released its Firefox 4 beta 1 for Android and Nokias Maemo.
The mobile-optimized browser can be downloaded from this Mozilla Website. It
includes features familiar to users of Firefoxs desktop version, including
Add-ons and the cheekily named Awesome Bar, which displays frequently vi…
Mozilla delivers a new update to the Firefox 4 Beta, which features faster graphics, new audio capabilities and enhanced security. Mozilla continues to hone its browser with new beta updates every few weeks. – Mozilla has delivered a new update
to the Firefox 4 Beta, which features faster graphics, new audio
capabilities and enhanced security.
In a Sept. 7 blog post, Mike
Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, said the new update to the latest
beta of the company’s popular open-source browser takes…
Mozilla has announced the release of the next major version of its Firefox browser for mobile users — known as Fennec – for Android and the Nokia N900. – Mozilla has announced that the next major version of its Firefox browser for mobile users, known as Fennec, is now available for the Android and Nokia N900 platforms.
Mozilla officials said the Alpha release of Fennec is now available for Android and Nokia N900 users to download and test.
In an A…
The list of apps affected by binary planting bugs includes programs such as Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Photoshop, as well as Microsoft apps like PowerPoint 2010. – The fallout from the binary planting vulnerabilities plaguing scores of
programs running on Windows continued today as more names of susceptible
applications became public and the number of exploits exploded.
Belgian security
site Corelan.be listed dozens of vulnerable applications, including se…
Mozilla has released a new update of its Firefox 4 Beta featuring built-in Firefox Sync and new tab management capability. – Mozilla,
the maker of the popular open-source Firefox browser, has delivered two new
features for developers and users to test, just weeks after the release of the
last Firefox beta 4 update. The Sync feature helps users synchronize their Web
experience and organize their online life. Firefox Sy…
UPDATED:Despite the red flag raised by a security researcher, Mozilla says users are not likely to be duped by a bug that can be used to bypass an alert meant for obfuscated URLs in Firefox. – A bug in the Firefox browser that can be used to bypass an
alert for obfuscated URLs is unlikely to trick users, according to
Mozilla.
The flaw was uncovered by Armorize Technologies researcher
Aditya K. Sood, who warned it could be used by purveyors of
malware to increase the chance of lead…
