Neowin News Feed for: Firefox

Microsoft adding Pointer Events support for Firefox

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:28:12 +0100

Microsoft Open Technologies has announced it is adding support for its Pointer Events web standard to Mozilla's Firefox web browser, after previously adding support to Google's Chrome browser. Read more...

Comodo IceDragon 21.0.1.15

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:19:54 +0100

Comodo IceDragon is built on the Mozilla browser core and combines the basic functionality of the original code with the Comodo security features. In this first release are included security features Read more...

Microsoft study finds IE the most energy efficient browser

Brad Sams — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:03:33 +0100

A new study out from Microsoft is reporting that IE10 is the most energy efficient browser on WIndows 8 when compared against Google's Chrome 26 and Mozilla's Firefox 21 web browsers. Read more...

Net Applications: IE10 browser share up to 9.26 percent

John Callaham — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:02:19 +0100

New data from Net Applications shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 gained market share in May going up to 9.26 percent, while IE's overall share went up slightly. Read more...

Pale Moon 20.1

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:31:55 +0100

Pale Moon is a custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows operating systems with current, high performance processors. It looks identical to the standard Firefox browser and supports Read more...

Firefox 22 to include OdinMonkey, cookie blocking delayed & more

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:47:45 +0100

Mozilla are readying a number of changes for Firefox 22, including fully enabled WebRTC, support for HiDPI displays in Windows, and OdinMonkey for gaming, while cookie blocking has been postponed Read more...

Study claims IE10 blocks nearly all malware on Windows 8

John Callaham — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:08:03 +0100

A new study from NSS Labs claims that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 web browser had a 99.96 percent malware block rate while running Windows 8, putting it at the top of the browser list. Read more...

Firefox 21 now available, launches officially tomorrow

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:09:58 +0100

Firefox 21 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available to download via Mozilla's FTP servers, ahead of an official launch tomorrow where we should also see the Android version updated Read more...

Microsoft finds malware that targets Facebook profiles

John Callaham — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:54:13 +0100

Microsoft has announced that it has detected a new malicious browser extension that tries to hijack Facebook profiles through the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Read more...

Firefox for Windows 8 expected to exit beta in November

John Callaham — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:10:59 +0100

A post on Mozilla's Wiki development page states that at the moment, the expected launch for the first non-beta version of the Modern UI version of Firefox is slated for November. Read more...

Epic Citadel HTML5 demo launched; IE browsers are left out

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:01:28 +0100

Epic Games has launched a version of its free Unreal Engine 3 demo, Epic Citadel, for HTML5 browsers. However, the demo won't work on any Internet Explorer browsers due to its lack of WebGL support. Read more...

IE10 claims 6.02 percent of web browser share in April

John Callaham — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:09:14 +0100

New data from Net Applications shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 gained market share in April, going up to 6.02 percent, while IE's overall share dipped very slightly. Read more...

Comodo IceDragon 20.0.1.14

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:39:29 +0100

Firefox OS-based smartphones debut in June in five countries

John Callaham — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:05:44 +0100

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs revealed today that the first smartphones with its Firefox OS will debut in june in five countries, adding 11 more by the end of 2013 and a U.S. launch in 2014. Read more...

Pale Moon 20.0.1

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:23:03 +0100

Microsoft launches msnNOW sidebar beta for Firefox

John Callaham — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:12:13 +0100

Microsoft has announced it has launched a beta version of its msnNOW sidebar for users of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, allowing Firefox to show what's currently trending on Microsoft's media site. Read more...

Firefox 20.0.1 now available for download

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:15:47 +0100

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox is built on top of the powerful new Gecko platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product. Read more...

IE team celebrates Mozilla's 15th birthday with improvised cake

John Callaham — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:59:29 +0100

Microsoft's Internet Explorer team sent a belated, and improvized, cake to the folks at Mozilla to help celebrate the 15th anniversary of the company behind the Firefox web browser. Read more...

Firefox 20.0 available for download

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:19:36 +0100

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox is built on top of the powerful new Gecko platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product. Read more...

Internet Explorer market share up in March; IE10 up to 2.93 percent

John Callaham — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:23:31 +0100

Internet Explorer gained a tiny bit of the overall web browser market share in March 2013, rising to 55.83 percent. IE10's own share was up slightly to 2.93 percent. Read more...