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Firefox: A Rollercoaster Year
News This fuels speculation that Google is planning to build its own Web browser. With Firefox reaching its first birthday on Wednesday, ZDNet UK decided to look back at the past year to revisit some of the acclaimed browser's ups and downs.
[November 9, 2005, 15:15]
Opera Shows Innovation With Latest Release
News The browser can be downloaded from Opera's Web site. Opera 7.50 includes a lot more than just Web surfing, with a new email client, an Internet relay chat client and support for Really Simple Syndication newsfeeds, rounding out other browser extras.
[May 13, 2004, 11:10]
Google Slams The Brakes On Accelerator
News The service stores copies of sites frequently accessed by individual PCs and automatically retrieves new data from those pages, so that a Web browser needs to process only updates to those sites when asked to load them.
[May 11, 2005, 12:10]
Google's Offline Web Apps Click Into Gear
News The search giant on Wednesday launched Google Gears, a browser plug-in that will let people run web applications when they're connected to the internet or not. One of the reasons we're doing Gears is that developers here at Google have really...
[May 31, 2007, 8:26]
Google Upgrades Toolbar
News Available free in beta at toolbar.google.com, the downloadable software lets people search the Web from a static box on the Internet Explorer Web browser and block annoying pop-up ads. Google, for example, makes money from sponsored listings that...
[February 17, 2005, 12:35]
Google Answers Analyst Questions
News Google executives said they have no plans to build a browser and downplayed threats from Microsoft's new advertising system and plans to bundle search into the next version of its operating system. Asked if Google would consider developing its own...
[June 1, 2006, 9:10]
Google Gears Races Towards Microsoft
News Several Google watchers said the browser plug-in is a significant step in the evolution of web-based applications, particularly with regard to the offline issue. The search giant — which has evolved into an advertising company and now an "apps...
[June 1, 2007, 8:59]
Google Fosters Ties With Developers
News In conjunction with the conference, the company on Wednesday announced Google Gears, a web browser plug-in that allows web developers to add offline access to web applications. Similarly, tools like Google Gears, available as open source, enhance...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Opera Updates Its Mobile Browser
News Opera Mini 4, which was made available on Wednesday, supports synchronisation with the company's desktop-based browser product. Opera has released the latest version of its free mobile web browser. Opera Mini 4 is also the first version of the...
[November 7, 2007, 11:03]
Mozilla: We'll Pay Developers Where We Can
News Calacanis claimed that when a Firefox user does a Google search using the browser's search box Mozilla receives approximately 80 percent of the ad revenue from any associated ad clicks. Mozilla's suite, which includes the Firefox Web browser, is...
[May 25, 2006, 13:10]
Google Tightens Up Search Privacy
News Google's servers log information every time someone conducts a web search, keeping data such as the keywords used, the internet protocol address or unique number assigned to that person's computer, and information from web cookies, which are small...
[March 15, 2007, 7:55]
IBM Hunts Firefox Coders
News Google has fuelled speculation about its own interest in producing a Web browser by recruiting aggressively from Mozilla Foundation staffers and volunteers. A job ad posted on IBM's Web site said an emerging technologies team in IBM's software...
[April 14, 2005, 8:50]
Google Under Fire Over Autolinking
News Google's browser toolbar for Internet Explorer is raising eyebrows over a feature that inserts new hyperlinks in web pages, giving the internet search provider a powerful tool to funnel traffic to destinations of its choice.
[February 21, 2005, 8:40]
Firefox 'not Being Aggressive Enough'
News Mozilla should be pushing the Firefox browser even more aggressively into the enterprise market, a senior analyst has told ZDNet UK. The popular open source browser hit the 200 million download landmark this week.
[August 3, 2006, 11:50]
Microsoft Asks Web Developers To 'bet On Us'
News The browser is also part of the ongoing battle between Microsoft and arch-rival Google. Google distributes Firefox as its preferred browser software in a number of its products. Microsoft's new browser is available to developers on the Microsoft...
[March 6, 2008, 7:43]
Google Acquisition Extends Search To Space
News Google also recently unveiled Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that lets people retrieve email, Microsoft Office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via a Web browser.
[October 28, 2004, 9:09]
Google Buys Web Security Firm GreenBorder
News Google has bought a web security firm which claims to offer safer surfing by flushing away each session when the browser is shut down. On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the company would say only that Google was "impressed by GreenBorder's small...
[May 30, 2007, 12:44]
Google Enhances Search For Firefox Users
News Google points out in a FAQ that "you may end up with cookies and Web pages in your Web browser's cache from Web sites that you did not click on". Reza Behforooz, a software engineer at Google, announced on Wednesday that the search engine now pre...
[March 31, 2005, 17:40]
Cross-application Attack Exploits IE Flaw
News There is a bug in the way the Web browser processes CSS rules, Matan Gillon wrote in a description of his hack posted on Wednesday. The proof-of-concept method is an example of how security flaws in software can offer all kinds of access to...
[December 5, 2005, 10:55]
Ballmer: Google Wants Special Treatment In IE
News His remarks centred on the default search engine in the Web browser. Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, used the "M" word - "monopoly" - to describe Microsoft at a press event on Wednesday, and said the software maker didn't necessarily...
[May 12, 2006, 8:50]
