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With Firefox 22, Mozilla escalates the tracking battle

Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:29 am

Third-party cookies are automatically blocked by default in this early browser release.
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Mozilla pulls tracking trigger for Firefox 22, ignores ad industry attacks

Posted April 7, 2013 - 12:44 pm

Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with the online ad industry.
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Mozilla introduces JavaScript API as part of common payments interface

Posted April 5, 2013 - 9:22 am

Mozilla plans to introduce a common API (application programming interface) to make online payments easy and secure on Firefox OS devices.
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Mozilla refines Firefox's private browsing, patches 13 browser bugs

Posted April 3, 2013 - 7:01 am

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team.
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Four alternatives to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone

Posted March 26, 2013 - 1:47 pm

Phones running Tizen, Ubuntu, Firefox, and Sailfish are coming soon. Here's what you need to know about each one.
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Ad industry threatens Firefox users with more ads if Mozilla moves on tracking plans

Posted March 25, 2013 - 6:28 am

The online ad industry has attacked Mozilla over its decision to block third-party cookies in a future release of Firefox, calling the move "dangerous and highly disturbing," and claiming that it will result in more ads shown to users.
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Mozilla again rejects porting Firefox to iOS

Posted March 11, 2013 - 11:44 am

Mozilla won't be building Firefox for iOS unless Apple changes its rules, a company executive said Saturday.
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Researchers rake in $280K at Pwn2Own hacking contest

Posted March 7, 2013 - 7:55 am

Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes.
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Windows XP and Firefox browser amass worst vulnerability record over past 25 years

Posted February 25, 2013 - 1:51 pm

In a look at the number of vulnerabilities recorded over 25 years in software products and open source, a researcher at Sourcefire has determined that Microsoft Windows XP and the Mozilla Firefox browser stand out as the two with the largest number of high-severity vulnerabilities.
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Mozilla debuts in-browser PDF, patches 13 Firefox bugs

Posted February 19, 2013 - 5:53 pm

Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser and patching 13 security vulnerabilities.
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Mozilla delivers 'Metro-ized' Firefox to testers

Posted February 13, 2013 - 10:30 am

Adds Windows 8 app to 'Nightly' dev channel, says it's stable enough for more testing
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Mozilla takes drastic step to automatically block virtually all plug-ins in Firefox

Posted January 30, 2013 - 1:44 pm

Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move.
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Mozilla announces Keon and Peak Firefox OS smartphones

Posted January 24, 2013 - 3:42 pm

Mozilla has revealed its first pair of smartphones running its Firefox operating system.
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9 essential Internet Explorer 10 add-ons

Posted January 19, 2013 - 9:00 am

Quality add-ons for Internet Explorer are few and far between. But we did find nine noteworthy candidates.
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Chrome 24 vs. Firefox 18 - head to head

Posted January 19, 2013 - 8:35 am

With major new releases of both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox happening within days of each other, it's been a big week for the browser market. Chrome 24 began to be rolled out to stable channel users via Google's automatic background updater on Thursday, while Mozilla announced the release version of Firefox 18 on Tuesday.
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Mozilla lights JavaScript fire under Firefox 18

Posted January 9, 2013 - 3:53 pm

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped its newest browser, Firefox 18, which sports a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution Retina displays.
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Ubuntu, Firefox line up to take on iOS, Android in 2013

Posted January 5, 2013 - 8:45 am

Android and iOS may be at the top of the heap in the smartphone world, but that hasn't stopped competitors, new and old, from trying to grab a piece of the pie. Ubuntu-maker Canonical announced Wednesday that it would enter the smartphone fray with its own Ubuntu phone OS based loosely on its popular Linux distribution for PCs. Research in Motion at the end of January will announce availability for BlackBerry 10, widely acknowledged as the company's last chance to retain any competitive advantage in the smartphone wars. Meanwhile, Microsoft is pushing Windows Phone 8, hoping that it unseats BlackBerry to become the third most popular smartphone OS behind Android and iOS. And the Mozilla Foundation also hopes to crack the smartphone world with a Web-based smartphone.
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Mozilla compromises on x64 Firefox after user backlash

Posted December 24, 2012 - 2:08 pm

Mozilla on Friday backtracked from a decision to suspend all work on a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows, acknowledging that user criticism had changed its mind.
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Firefox gets an all-new private browsing mode

Posted December 14, 2012 - 11:49 am

It was just a few weeks ago that Firefox got a fresh security boost on the eve of its eighth birthday, but this week Mozilla gave users of its popular browser a better way to protect their privacy as well.
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Browser battle: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera

Posted December 8, 2012 - 8:03 am

After a long, quiet period of Microsoft dominance, the PC browser market has been broken wide-open again in recent years, with Firefox and Chrome challenging Internet Explorer, and Opera sniffing at the margins.
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Mozilla ships Firefox 18 beta with faster JavaScript, Retina support

Posted November 27, 2012 - 4:57 pm

Mozilla yesterday released a first beta of its next browser, Firefox 18, touting a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution 'Retina' displays.
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Send Web pages to your Kindle with new Firefox add-on

Posted November 17, 2012 - 8:13 am

This is an updated, Firefox-oriented version of a post I wrote several months ago.
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Firefox turns 8 and gets a key security boost

Posted November 14, 2012 - 12:56 pm

Between Android and Firefox, this has been a big week for milestones in the world of free and open source software.
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Firefox update fixes security flaws

Posted October 29, 2012 - 9:14 am

Several security vulnerabilities in Firefox 16 are being addressed in an update of the browser software released by the Mozilla Foundation. This is the second time in the last two weeks that the browser has had to be updated to address security problems.
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Mozilla previews 'Metro'-ized Firefox for Windows 8

Posted October 8, 2012 - 11:11 am

Mozilla has released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first "Modern" or "Metro" user interface (UI).
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