Firefox 4.0 has a new JavaScript engine called JaegerMonkey. JaegerMonkey is supposed to be much faster than TraceMonkey.
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In case you do not know, Firefox is also making a browser for mobile devices. It is codenamed Fennec for now and the alpha currently available for Android and the Nokia N900.
In this article we will tell you how to install Firefox 4 Browser in Fedora Linux 14 and Fedora 13 using 3rd party repositories.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 has been released with support for Panorama (formerly Tab Candy) and Sync.
In today’s build of Minefield (Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 Pre) in the Mozilla Daily Build PPA in Launchpad, Tab Candy is finally available. If you want to try it out, you can install Minefield alongside your normal Firefox installation.
We always knew that WebKit is going to make Konqueror faster; but how much faster? Today we test that by putting Konqueror with KHTML through the SunSpider JavaScript Test.
There are many people who have had enough of Justin Bieber. Well someone decided to try and do something about it and created a Firefox add-on to block everything Bieber. It has been ported to Chrome as well.
It was originally scheduled to be released last Friday, but got delayed due to last-minute quality assurance check. Nonetheless, the second beta of Firefox 4.0 is now here. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, although the features are not uniform throughout (more on that later).
After the proof-of-concept extension for Google Chrome that steals user’s login details, it is time for Firefox to feel the heat from something similar. Mozilla has announced the a malicious add-on, called Mozilla Sniffer has been discovered. The add-on grabs the the login details and sends it to a remote location. Upon discovery, the plugin [...]
When I reviewed Firefox 4 Beta in Linux last week, I noted that the new tabs on top interface is not yet there for Linux. Well actually it is not there is in Mac too. Only the Windows have the new interface right now.
Both Opera and Google are obsessed with the speed of their browser. With each release, each claim to be the fastest browser. Google has even gone on to make a game to demonstrate the speed of its browser Chrome. With today’s release of Opera 10.60, Opera is now claiming that it is the fastest browser [...]
Firefox 4 is perhaps the most eagerly awaited version of Firefox till date. We have already given you the links from where you can download and install Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 for Linux, Windows and Mac. We took it for a spin in Ubuntu and here is our review of the first beta of Firefox [...]
Download the latest avatar of the Firefox browser – The Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta right now!
Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Maverick Meerkat may have Chromium as the default browser which naturally means that the existing default browser Mozilla Firefox may be dropped!
The Mozilla Labs Test Pilot team recently ran a study to explore how users interact with Firefox’s menu bar. The study is now complete and the raw data is available, so in addition to the great visualizations that they have already made, I put together a heat map: Read More Here
Firefox could learn a few things from Internet Explorer 8. Even though it’s popular to hate on IE, and easy to do, Firefox could learn a thing or two from the browser that still holds the majority of the browser market. Say it isn’t so! What could Firefox possibly have to learn from the most [...]
In an earlier post we have told that Google will be replaced by Yahoo! as the default search in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Now, the Ubuntu community has come up with the design for what the Firefox Start Page with Yahoo! is going to be like.
Mozilla has decided to drop the support of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in future Firefox releases. This change will be introduced later this year when Firefox changes its rendering engine from Gecko 1.9.2 to Gecko 1.9.3. Mozilla had already stop supporting Tiger in mozilla-central in September 2009. However, most of the code was left [...]
This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.
In a blog post today, Mozilla said that two malicious Firefox Add-ons – Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. These Add-ons were however rated as “Expimental Add-ons” and fortunately did not make it to the main Add-ons section [...]
This week there has been a lot of big news – from Apple’s iPad launch and subsequent trademark disputes to Google officially ending support of the Internet Explorer 6. Here we have compiled together the top news of the week in case you have missed any.
Mozilla announced in their blog that the final build of their Firefox web browser is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform. Maemo is a linux based smart phone OS which currently powers the Nokia N900. Firefox for Maemo brings many features that is part of the desktop Firefox on the mobile platform. Firefox for Maemo [...]
From now on, the Firefox Browser that is shipped with Ubuntu Linux will have Yahoo! Search as the default search engine in the Firefox Search bar.
You might have already heard about YouTube and Vimeo rolling out support for the new HTML5 video. What many does not know is that the video codec that they are using now is a proprietary one called H.264. You would think that if Google is supporting a format, it would become the standard. Not quite [...]

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