The impending final release of Firefox 4 is something of a big deal for the Mozilla Foundation. Over the past year the popular open source browser has been facing some stiff competition from the likes of Google's Chrome and, even, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Read more »Firefox plug-in NoScript 2.0 released
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NoScript creator Giorgio Maone has released version 2.0 of his open source extension for Mozilla's Firefox browser, adding several new changes and improving its overall reliability
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Will Mozilla's $3,000 bug bounty make Firefox secure?
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Mozilla is increasing the amount it pays security researchers for bugs from $500 up to $3,000. I personally think that's a very good thing.
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Mozilla Would Like to Pick Your Brain - Revising the MPL
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Can we talk about licenses for a bit? It's something I've wanted to talk to you about for a long time, and it's a good time for it, because Mozilla is redrafting its license and would like your input.
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GNU IceCat 3.6.7 released
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GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. In addition, GNU IceCat includes some privacy protection features, included in a separate addon.
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Mozilla: 2 billion Firefox add-ons downloaded
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Mozilla announced today that Firefox users have downloaded more than two billion browser add-ons. To mark the occasion, Mozilla has created a special list of the top 25 add-ons.
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Mozilla: Our browser will not run native code
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Mozilla vice president of products Jay Sullivan says that unlike Google, the open source outfit has no intention of bundling Firefox with Adobe Flash —– or with a plug-in that runs native code inside the browser. Mozilla, Sullivan says, believes that the future of online applications lies with web standards, including HTML5.
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Firefox: The official web browser of IBM
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IBM is telling its 400,000 employees to use the open-source browser as their default at work - and why not at home, too.
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Mozilla designer says Google Chrome uses speed tricks
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An interface designer interning at Mozilla has suggested that the company mimic gimmicks in Google's Chrome to make users think Firefox starts up faster.
Read more »Mozilla 64-bit on GNU Systems Available for the First Time
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"...It is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community..."
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Mozilla Says It’s Totally Fine to Ship VP8/WebM, or They Wouldn’t Ship It
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Mozilla is not afraid of MPEG-LA and it will calmly support Google's new codec; perhaps so should everyone else
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Mozilla opens up more on Firefox 4: Content Security, WebGL coming
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A newly published Mozilla developers' page characterizes Firefox 4 -- whose first public betas may be only a few weeks away -- as feature-laden.
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Mozilla and Opera call for Google open codec in HTML5 spec
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One week after Google open sourced its $124.6m VP8 video codec, Mozilla and Opera have called for its inclusion in the still-gestating HTML5 specification. As it stands, the HTML5 spec does not specify a video codec. Browser makers are free to use any codec they like, and the big names are split between the patent-backed H.264 and the open source Ogg Theora.
Read more »Mozilla prepares coders for Firefox 4 features
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It was with delight that I read these words on Thursday: "The proposed IndexedDB standard, which provides a local database store for Web applications, will be supported by Firefox 4."
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Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
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Will Firefox have double-digit market share in 3 to 5 years? Straightforward enough. Yes, says (outgoing) Mozilla CEO John Lilly. No, says Firefox co-founder Blake Ross.
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