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Mozilla Firefox 1.0 review
Reviews Firefox 1.0 runs on a variety of Windows operating systems, including Windows 98 through XP, as well as on Mac OS X and several varieties of Linux, including Red Hat Linux 8.0. Firefox is based on open-source code, which is both a good and a bad...
[November 10, 2004, 12:58]
IE7 for Windows Vista: a first look review
Reviews Like FireFox, Internet Explorer boasts built-in tabs, allowing you to open several pages within a single instance of Internet Explorer. But once the first security bulletin posts for this new Internet Explorer version, many users are likely to bail...
[October 31, 2005, 10:10]
Google seeks to join EC's Microsoft antitrust case
News The request follows the Commission's recent decision to grant third-party access to Mozilla, the organisation behind the popular Firefox browser. Microsoft's share of the browser market has been declining steadily during the past year, largely due...
[February 25, 2009, 7:20]
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS review
Reviews Canonical decided that the beta is close enough to release that having Firefox 3 (FF 3) from the outset made more sense than imposing a major upgrade so close to the launch of the operating system itself.
[April 25, 2008, 10:53]
Windows 2000 users miss out on IE7
News But, some readers celebrated this news, claiming that it was likely to improve the market share of alternative browsers such as the open source browser Firefox. Cool, about 20 percent extra market share for Opera/Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox," was one...
[June 2, 2005, 14:35]
So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
News Paris is moving its government servers to Linux, and also using Firefox and OpenOffice on the desktop. Firefox. The Wine Windows emulator provides a Windows API on an x86 machine running a POSIX-compliant operating system.
[November 28, 2005, 14:45]
Two ways to replace your browser
News In addition, the popularity of the Firefox browser has offered computer users a browser alternative - one that millions of users have opted to try, though its market share may be declining. While not immune to its own security issues, the default...
[August 22, 2005, 13:05]
Renewed browser wars: IE v Firefox review
Reviews Firefox doesn't use ActiveX technology, which means that a few Web sites might not appear as their designers intended (although we were hard-pressed to find a site that didn't work because of this during our testing of Firefox).
[November 11, 2004, 8:22]
Security flaw found in Mozilla browser
News Updated versions of the affected software programs, which include the Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird browsers, have been released. Mozilla developers said that future versions of the Firefox Web browser would have automatic update notifications...
[July 9, 2004, 8:40]
Service Pack 3 OR Surprise Package 3?
Blog It most likely has to do with the fact that I have VS2005 Standard on the system, VS2008 Express installed, Eclipse, various Web developer kits (some Microsoft, some not), FireFox 2 and Firefox Beta3-5, various C# and assemblers for Windows, and...
[June 7, 2008, 16:03]
Security experts voice IE7 push concerns
News Firefox is not intimately engaged with the operating system, which makes me feel safer. Wood recommended businesses turn to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Opera. If you choose to wait for IE7 that could be a good thing, but if you want to...
[July 27, 2006, 15:05]
Europe to get Windows 7 without browser
News Firefox is particularly strong in Europe. According to AT Internet Institute (formerly XitiMonitor), IE had a 59.5 percent share in Europe as of November, compared with 31.1 percent for Firefox. In addition, Microsoft will strip the browser from...
[June 12, 2009, 8:40]
Firefox 1.1 delayed
News One of the main aims of 1.1 is to improve the user experience for users on Linux and Mac machines so that they can have a version of Firefox that fits in with their operating system as well as the Windows version fits in with the Windows OS," said...
[January 31, 2005, 12:05]
Windows Vista Business review
Reviews Hard-core Microsoft fans who live and breathe within the MSN, Live.com and Microsoft desktop software ecosystem will rejoice with the release of Windows Vista, but for the rest of us who are product-agnostic (who use programs like Firefox, Google...
[January 25, 2007, 14:22]
Ubuntu 7.04 review
Reviews In the upper left we also found icons for Evolution (email client), Help and Firefox, which comes preinstalled on Ubuntu. When installing a new operating system, especially on an existing Windows machine, we recommend first running a disk partition...
[July 13, 2007, 11:39]
Red Hat Desktop 4 review
Reviews However, it's a simple matter to drag the Firefox icon from the menu to the taskbar and delete the incumbent. Firefox (1.0.7) is there for Web browsing, Evolution (2.0.2) for email and calendar, and OpenOffice (1.1.2) for word processing...
[November 15, 2005, 15:10]
Amazon's A9 releases toolbar for Firefox
News Amazon.com subsidiary A9.com on Monday released a version of its Internet toolbar for the Firefox Web browser. Executives at A9 said the company had received a large number of requests from consumers looking for a version of the software to run...
[November 2, 2004, 8:19]
New Year, old flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer review
Reviews Firefox to the rescue? Mozilla Firefox has been designed to run without ActiveX. But in all fairness, now that people are rushing to install Firefox, more and more flaws have been announced. Still, the flaws discovered in Firefox pale against those...
[January 17, 2005, 7:45]
Mozilla to join EC's Microsoft antitrust case
News Mozilla's request for "third-party status" has been granted, entitling the organisation behind the popular Firefox browser to see confidential documents in the case, and to voice objections, the source said.
[February 11, 2009, 12:44]
Windows-friendly Xandros 4 launched
News The OS has the KDE 3.42 desktop interface, and the usual open source applications Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice. The latest version of Xandros desktop Linux has arrived, continuing the operating system's mission to welcome Windows users — a...
[June 23, 2006, 12:40]
