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Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle
News Microsoft is also trying to be clear that Gazelle is not the immediate replacement for Internet Explorer, which has been losing share to rivals, including Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari. Many people think the browser is starting to replace...
[July 8, 2009, 16:01]
Adobe and Symantec seek EU ban on Vista bundling
Talkback Just because IE is installed has never stopped me installing Firefox or Opera, or even in the good ole days, Netscape! If MS release their own Antivirus i see nothing wrong with that, it is THEIR operating system.
[September 25, 2006, 12:57]
IE stagnation spells trouble for all concerned
News Instead, the company envisions a successful Firefox acting as an alternative, secondary platform much as Apple Computer's Macintosh operating system exists alongside Windows. Some technology-focused Web sites have noted an increase in Firefox users.
[October 8, 2004, 10:35]
Java flaw opens Windows, Linux to attack
News The vulnerability can be used to attack systems running on Windows or Linux, for example, and using major browser software such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Firefox -- meaning a large number of systems are vulnerable to attack.
[November 24, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft's licensing check rounded again
News The popular open source Firefox Web browser, for example, does not support ActiveX. The effort, dubbed Windows Genuine Advantage, requires users to verify that they have a legitimate copy of the operating system before they can get files from...
[August 8, 2005, 9:35]
Strengthening security at Mozilla
News Mozilla's new security chief won't say outright whether Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer. Window Snyder, formerly of Microsoft, now heads up security at Mozilla, the company best known for its open source Firefox Web browser.
[October 2, 2006, 18:05]
French MPs choose Linux over Windows
News The MPs' move to open source is the first concerning a switch of operating system — previous initiatives have been more focused on servers (such as the agriculture ministry), OpenOffice (such as the gendarmerie) or Firefox (such as the French tax...
[March 13, 2007, 9:03]
Linux company chalks up success with teachers
News SchoolLINUX OS costs £29.95 and includes Mozilla's Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client; word processing and spreadsheet packages that can read Microsoft files; and RealPlayer. The operating system, which runs from a CD-ROM and uses just...
[January 14, 2005, 11:10]
Novell Linux Desktop 9 review
Reviews Like all good Linux distributions, NLD 9 includes the OpenOffice productivity suite and the Firefox browser; also included is the Gaim IM client and Novell's Evolution for email/contact management/calendar functions.
[November 22, 2005, 9:55]
Site slams IE's security
News For alternatives to IE, the site lists the Mozilla Foundation's open-source browsers Mozilla and Firefox, Apple's open-source based Safari browser for use with recent versions of the Macintosh, and Opera Software's browser.
[August 25, 2004, 8:10]
Microsoft, Nokia in mobile Office alliance
News Those programs will be able to run inside Safari and Firefox in addition to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The deal comes even as Microsoft is trying to figure out how to keep its Windows Mobile operating system in the game amid stiff competition...
[August 12, 2009, 9:53]
OS/2 has earned its freedom
Leader OS/2 has OpenOffice and Firefox, developers’ conferences and commercial products. For all its great potential - it really was "a better Windows than Windows" for a while - the operating system suffered badly from its single parent's vacillation...
[July 18, 2005, 13:30]
Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims
News Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, told ZDNet.co.uk last week that vulnerabilities in IE far outstrip flaws in Mozilla's Firefox browser in terms of severity and time to update. Opera's complaint was that Microsoft is abusing its...
[December 14, 2007, 11:48]
Opera shows innovation with latest release
News Recent entries such as Apple's Safari and open-source project Mozilla's Firefox have opted to strip out bulky add-ons, such as Web-based email -- a strategy spurred in part by the failure of some full-featured browsers, including America Online's...
[May 13, 2004, 11:10]
Google shares Android source code
News For example, the Linux kernel project has thrived as an open-source project since its earliest days, offering various different ways that people or companies can involve themselves, but it took several painful years before the Mozilla open-source...
[October 22, 2008, 8:30]
Google unveils desktop search
News People using Firefox and other browsers will not be able to record their Web history using the application. Desktop search has been earmarked a priority by all the major search engines, but among investors and analysts Microsoft has posed the...
[October 14, 2004, 15:40]
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy
News The machines come with an operating system which uses elements of Red Hat's Fedora Core 6 and includes a browser built on XULRunner, the runtime environment used by Firefox. Negroponte added that the project required an extremely scaled-down...
[October 29, 2007, 8:15]
Firefox 3 review
Reviews Firefox 3 offers faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history. Firefox 3 is free, and available on a variety of operating systems: Windows, Mac and Linux.
[June 18, 2008, 8:32]
Acer shows off Android netbook, smartphone
News The Android OS, as implemented on the D250, includes functionality such as email and chat, as well as web browsing through the Android browser or through Firefox. Users of the dual-boot machine can fire up Google's operating system — which has...
[October 14, 2009, 15:09]
Open source debate brought to a close - for now
Talkback This hit Birmingham city council's attempt to move 134 library staff to a full set of open source software, including SuSE's Linux operating system, OpenOffice 2.0 and web-browser Firefox. The city's library management software, Galaxy, works only...
[November 20, 2006, 23:01]
