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!

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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

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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