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Mozilla announces a mobile version of its popular open-source Web browser, Firefox, which is available for the Nokia N900 and N810 smartphones. - Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit creator of the free and open source Web browser Firefox, announced the application is now available for Nokias Maemo platform. a core ...

Mozilla announces a mobile version of its popular open-source Web browser, Firefox, which is available for the Nokia N900 and N810 smartphones. - Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit creator of the free and open-source Web browser Firefox, announced the application is now available for Nokias Maemo platform, a core platform ...

Firefox 3.6 may be just a point upgrade, but it does offer some welcome new capabilities and improvements over Version 3.5 that make it worthwhile. Most welcome are the new Personas feature and enhanced support for plug-in handling and for HTML5. - The newly released Firefox 3.6 ...

The release candidate for Firefox 3.6, the latest version of Mozilla's Web browser, contains a variety of new features, including user alerts about out-of-date plug-ins, improved JavaScript performance and browser speed, and the ability to display native video in full-screen mode. The browser previously went through two beta versions, with ...

Ushering in the new year, Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Maemo, the Linux-based open-source mobile platform from Nokia. - Ushering in the new year, Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Maemo, the Linux-based open-source mobile platform from Nokia. In a Dec. ...

November for Microsoft has involved the acquisition of two companies, one focusing on health care IT and the other on automating processes within the data center. But those are relatively minor compared with Microsoft's escalating battle with Google over the U.S. search market. Even as both sides continue to produce ...

Thunderbird 3 is an update to the Mozillas e-mail software and it has added that the four beta versions to the software have provided enough feedback to give final touches and release the final product. Here we discuss various new features of TE3 that can be useful for enterprises.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 2, the next version of Mozilla's popular Web browser, arrives less than two weeks after the first beta of Firefox 3.6. It contains over 190 fixes to the original beta. Mozilla currently occupies about 25 percent of the browser market, according to a new study, placing it ...

Microsoft and the European Commission may be close to a deal on packaging Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7, with Redmond agreeing to offer users an automatic ballot screen from which they can choose a rival browser. Such an agreement would alleviate the Commissions antitrust concerns, but Google, ...

Mozilla plans on rolling out Thunderbird 3, the newest version of its open-source e-mail application, in mid-November. The organization says its made some 2,000 improvements to the program. The larger new features include tabbed e-mail, filtered search and a one-click address book. Thunderbird 3 will be compatible with Windows, Mac ...

With the recent releases of beta versions of Google Chrome 4.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.6, the two browsers continue their rapid pace of upgrading to provide more integrated functionality across Web services. Despite the version number, Firefox 3.6 looks to be the more significant upgrade. The Chrome 4.0 beta focuses ...

Mozilla will introduce a new version of Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail application, in mid-November. Built on the same rendering platform as Firefox 3.1, Thunderbird 3 will include features such as tabbed e-mail, filtered search and a one-click address book. - Mozilla will roll out the newest version ...

The free SeaMonkey suite is very similar to the old Mozilla software while keeping the underlying technology up-to-date. The new SeaMonkey 2.0, for example, adds the capabilities of Firefox 3.5's underlying browsing engine while maintaining the old Mozilla look and feel. eWEEK Labs' tests show that SeaMonkey 2.0 takes some ...

While many users applauded the launch of the stand-alone browser Firefox, there was a significant community that preferred the Internet suite approach of the original Mozilla. SeaMonkey is a volunteer project within Mozilla dedicated to keeping the suite option available to users. With the release of SeaMonkey 2.0, that browser ...

Mozilla opted to block Microsoft's .NET Framework Assistant add-on for users of Mozilla's Firefox browser Oct. 16 due to security concerns. Now, after receiving additional information from Microsoft, the Mozilla re-enables the add-on. - Mozilla has backtracked on its move to disable a Microsoft add-on tied to ...

Mozilla disables two Microsoft add-ons for Firefox to thwart a vulnerability that allows an attacker to take over Windows machines. The security flaw was fixed by Microsoft in the latest Patch Tuesday update. - Mozilla is blocking the use of two Microsoft add-ons installed silently on ...

Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts. The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely at the expense of Microsoft IE, are concerned Chrome Frame will further muddy the already cloudy waters of a fragmented ...

Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts. The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely at the expense of Microsoft IE, are concerned Chrome Frame will further muddy the already cloudy waters of a fragmented ...

The fact that Mozilla has recorded one billion Firefox downloads by itself doesn't prove the Web browser has become a formidable competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It's Firefox's reputation for superior security, rapid patching of security holes and its multitude of browser extentions that has allowed it to win converts ...

Mozilla Firefox, the open-source challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, passed the 1-billion download mark on July 31, with a Website and Twitter feed marking the occasion. Although Firefox has managed to seize an increasing percentage of the consumer market since its original rollout in 2002, its gains have been somewhat ...