Tag: firefox 3

News (236)

Android coders get high-speed graphics ability

Want better games on your Android phone? They may be coming sooner now, at least for Android 2.0 models. Read more »

Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation

In an update to the development build of Chrome, Google on Thursday introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API. Read more »

Mozilla issues new Firefox test release

For eager beavers who want a taste of Firefox to come, Mozilla issued a second preview release of the browser. Read more »

Elements of Firefox overhaul arrive for testing

Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox. Read more »

New Opera 10.50 beta aims to surpass Chrome

The Opera Browser made some serious headway in keeping itself relevant when it introduced a new JavaScript engine for its upcoming revision. Read more »

2011 ends Firefox's Mac OS X 10.4 support

Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. Read more »

Firefox add-on accused of malware comes up clean

Last week, Firefox users were warned by Mozilla of two add-ons that had been discovered to contain malware and removed from their add-on website. Read more »

Tide turns against IE6 as usage drops

Firefox usage remained level and Google's Chrome continued to pull ahead of Apple's Safari, but the most notable change in January's browser usage statistics is that the reviled Internet Explorer 6 no longer is the most common. Read more »

Google phasing out support for IE6

Google has clearly had enough with Internet Explorer 6. Read more »

Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice

A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch web video or host it on their own sites. Read more »

More Firefox 3 News Results

Features (29)

GoogleSharing: A way to prevent tracking by Google

A security expert has developed an innovative Firefox add-on that prevents Google from tracking your whereabouts on the internet. Read more »

Thanks for giving my pixels back, browser makers

I'd personally like to offer browser makers my gratitude for realising that my screen isn't big enough. Read more »

An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2

XHTML 2, a technology intended to build a more powerful Web from the ground up, met a quiet end last week, spotlighting the difficulties of standardisation in a fast-moving Internet. Introduced in 2002, XHTML 2 was a centerpiece of standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Read more »

Firefox 3.5rc2: Why I am not so impressed

I decided it was time to see what the developers of Firefox had been doing with my favourite open-source browser. The verdict so far? "Meh". Read more »

10 Firefox extensions that help keep you safe

Being safe while you surf the web is extremely important, yet safe surfing sometimes seems like an oxymoron. For users of the Firefox browser, downloading security extensions can help increase your level of protection from worms, hackers, phishers and the like. Read more »

10 handy Firefox about:config hacks

If you really want to fine-tune your Firefox functionality, you have to roll up your sleeves and tinker with the about:config page. This article shares some simple hacks to make Firefox work the way you want. Read more »

How JavaScript became a browser-war battleground

After lurking inconspicuously within the code of websites for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of web-browser wars. Read more »

10 Firefox extensions you can't live without

Whether you want to speed access to the websites you regularly visit, keep better tabs on your tabs, or protect your system from potentially dangerous active content, there is a Firefox extension ready to help you out. Here's a list of some time-saving, browser-enhancing add-ons. Read more »

Why 2008 was another great year in web technology

This article offers a look back at web development software updates and new products in 2008, with an eye toward 2009. It discusses SOA, mobile development, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, Python, and more. Read more »

Getting started with Firefox Extensions

No browser is perfect -- eventually enough annoyances will build up to the point that you wish you could do something about it. Thanks to Firefox's extendable architecture and a healthy dose of JavaScript knowledge, you can begin bending the browser to your will. Read more »

More Firefox 3 Features Results

Video (15)

Play!
Why Chrome is catching on

When Google introduced a Web browser earlier this fall, the debut was accompanied by much expectation as well as by much skepticism. But Chrome is starting to win over more converts -- including CNET News' Stephen Shankland, who explains why on today's CNET News Daily Debrief with Charles Cooper. Read more »

Play!
Browser wars: who's the fastest?

Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks about the race for the fastest browser engine. Google, Microsoft and Apple are all competing with Mozilla. The competition, he says, is good for users and developers. Read more »

Play!
Battle of the browsers

Brian Tong referees a four-way free-for-all with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome all competing. Which will stand tall as the top desktop browser? Read more »

Play!
Windows maths and Browser Goodies -- Club Builder

Windows 7 will be code-versioned as Windows 7.0, won't it? On this week's Club Builder we see that it isn't so, as well as get Steve Ballmer thoughts on Vista deployment; plus we see some new HTML5 tricks. Read more »

Play!
Jackalopes,Chrome and Bloat -- Club Builder

Any other name would be better than Ubuntu's latest. Club Builder this week examines some alternative names, looks over Google Chrome's heritage, and a new Seinfeld ad for Microsoft debuts. Read more »

Play!
Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox -- Club Builder

In this episode of Club Builder: a new Firefox plug-in makes browsing more powerful, computer viruses enter orbit, and Microsoft gets a three-way serve of soapboxing. Read more »

Play!
Crystal Ball gazing, Firefox & Tetris -- Club Builder

On this week's episode: we learn how to waste time in the terminal, cast an eye over the state of Firefox and see what Microsoft's Sphere is all about Read more »

Play!
New Firefox features

Play!
Looking forward to Firefox 3

In anticipation of Firefox 3, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Webware.com's Rafe Needleman discuss what users can look forward to with the new browser release on 17 June. Read more »

Play!
Will Web users flock to Flock?

On "Working Webware," ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin to find out about the company's social media browser, its role in the open-source community, and how it plans to compete against rivals Microsoft and Mozilla. Farber and Needleman also analyze the company's odds for success and Flock's fate in the next-generation browser wars. Read more »

Log in

News and features

Latest
Popular
Features
Most Discussed

Study: businesses start to embrace Windows 7 (12 hours, 23 minutes ago)
Microsoft nixes barrier to Windows 7's 'XP mode' (12 hours, 28 minutes ago)
Google Chrome upgraded across the board
Bing Maps adds a telescopic lens
Google simplifies leaving Exchange
Windows Phone forgets how to copy and paste
More news »

Blogs

Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

-- posted by Chris Duckett
Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff