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Mozilla decided Tuesday to roll out a second release candidate for Firefox 3.0 that will include fixes for about 40 bugs. The alternative was to declare the open-source browser good "as is," then patch the problems with a later update.
Firefox 3.0 is dramatically faster than its predecessor and rivals, benchmark tests claim -- the result of hundreds of performance improvements designed to make the open-source browser the best at running complex Web 2.0 applications, Mozilla's chief developer said Wednesday.
Mozilla Tuesday released the latest beta of Firefox 3, including some 900 bug fixes and highlighting for users that it is for testing purposes only.
SeaMonkey 1.1.8, the Mozilla Foundation's all-in-one Internet application, combines browsing, e-mail, HTML editing, and IRC chat. The project traces its lineage to the classic Netscape Communicator suite – but unfortunately, those roots show a little too clearly.
For the second time in the past four weeks, Mozilla Corp. has announced a "code freeze" for a beta version of Firefox 3.0 – this time, Beta 4 – as it prepares another public release of the open-source browser.
Mozilla has released the third beta of Firefox 3, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Moziila bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to "high" Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now slated for release on Feb. 5.
Mozilla's Firefox browser finished 2007 with nearly 30% of the European browser market, a French Web metrics company reported Tuesday.
Mozilla has released the second beta of Firefox 3, several days earlier than it had planned.
Mozilla Corp. will fix just 20 per cent of the bugs now in Firefox 3.0 before the final version is released next year, the open-source developer's Web site revealed Wednesday.
Mozilla shut off the HTTP connection to the servers that host Firefox 3.0 after a rumour spread that the open-source browser's first beta was finished.
Mozilla is nearing a release of the first beta of Firefox 3.0, which is several months behind schedule, making a final version of the open-source browser this year unlikely.
Safari is faster than rival browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, a North Carolina Web testing firm said Wednesday -- putting proof to Apple's June boast that its browser was the quickest.
Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser, which the company said earlier this week is in the works, will likely be available for phones running Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux operating systems, a developer working on the project said.
By developing a version of its open source desktop Firefox Web browser to run on mobile devices, Mozilla hopes to break the hold some handset makers and carriers have on what mobile applications consumers can use, an executive of the company says.
Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.
Hackers can drop malicious code into systems running Mozilla's Firefox when the browser is armed with any of several high-profile add-ons, including Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar, a researcher revealed today. Mozilla has acknowledged the risk posed by some extensions.
Mozilla is thinking about dropping Firefox support for Apple's Mac OS 10.3, the three-and-a-half-year-old operating system also known as Panther.
Mozilla took the unusual step of patching a single vulnerability in its Firefox browser, but it will resume regular multiple-fix security updates with the next release, which is slated to debut before April 24.
Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix eight security vulnerabilities.
