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Firefox Aurora 7 release tackles memory

...s build of Firefox launched on Thursday, targeting memory issues in the open-source browser. Photo credit: Mozilla Firefox Aurora 7 can be downloaded for... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt

Mozilla: Enterprise has never been a focus of ours

...has said that enterprises have never been an important focus for the open-source browser Read more

24 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

Firefox 4 beta 1 launches for Android and Maemo

Mozilla has made the open-source browser available to download in beta form for Android handsets running... Read more

8 October, 2010 by Ben Woods
Sunrise 2.2.1

Sunrise 2.2.1

Light & fast. The open-source browser for web developer. Auto Resizable Window TransParent Window Draw URL... Read more

3 May, 2012

HTML tweak puts block on web video copying

...protection for initial key and content distribution could be maintained in an open-source browser. However, open-source web browser mechanisms may not prevent redistribution... Read more

23 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Mozilla promises social, privacy-driven Firefox in 2012

...client, Mozilla is best known as the company behind Firefox, the first open-source browser to give Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) a run for... Read more

14 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Google looks to reunite Android browser with Chrome

...dubbed simply 'Browser' on Android phones and tablets — is based on the open-source browser engine WebKit. However, it has long been disassociated from it... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Apple approves WebGL for iAds on iOS 5

...whether it plans to ship WebGL, though nightly builds of the WebKit open-source browser on which Safari is based include support. "WebGL will not... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Too slow, Firefox, too slow

...on a 286. So, I have plunged and moved to Chromium, the open source browser that underpins Google Chrome. Have I been too hasty? Have... Read more

22 March, 2011

Firefox is now the most popular European browser

...Europe, according to figures from the web monitoring firm Statcounter. Mozilla's open-source browser overtook Microsoft's staple in December and now commands 39... Read more

5 January, 2011

Google launches Chrome OS, aiming for the enterprise

...now, is a repository of applications that can run entirely within the open-source browser, whether on a PC or within Chrome OS. According to... Read more

8 December, 2010 by David Meyer

Firefox 4 beta 7 arrives with JavaScript speed boost

...The latest beta build of Firefox includes a component that gives the open-source browser a boost in the speed with which it renders pages... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Seth Rosenblatt

Mozilla pushes Firefox 4 release to 2011

...to 2011, following difficulties releasing the first full-featured beta of the open-source browser. Mozilla had hoped to release Firefox 4 in 2010, but... Read more

28 October, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Mozilla: Firefox 4 unlikely to support PowerPC Macs

...3.6 is likely to be the last supported version of the open-source browser that will work on PowerPC-based Macs, according to a... Read more

26 August, 2010 by Ben Woods

Google updates Chrome, Chromium and Frame

...Chrome's high-risk security flaws. Safari is based on the same open-source browser engine as Chrome, called WebKit. Two researchers received payments for... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

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