Remember BrowserID, the Internet sign-in system developed by Mozilla? The project went silent shortly after the initially announcement in July, and it was not really clear if Mozilla was going forward with it or putting it on ice for the time being. A recent post on the Mozilla Identity team blog revealed that Mozilla was [...]

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Even if you are living in a big city like me, you sometimes need to know the times the sun or moon rises and sets. Maybe you want to photograph the sun or moon at a specific time, go fishing or believe in something that requires you to know the exact times. Or, you simply [...]

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One of the biggest issues that Firefox users have with the rapid release cycle introduced earlier this year is the fact that updates often disabled their add-ons in the browser due to incompatibilities. Most of the time though those incompatibilities can be attributed to the maximum compatible version number assigned to an add-on, and not [...]

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Have you ever been on a web page that would not stop loading? That would go on forever until you tapped on the ESC key to stop it? When you search on Google for “page loads forever” and comparable phrases you come up with thousands of pages filled with user reports about that problem. A [...]

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We do know at this point in time that Mozilla is investigating means to update Firefox more effectively. Back in October we revealed that Mozilla was planning to add a silent update process to the browser to streamline the process and make it more comfortable and unobtrusive. Firefox engineer Ehsan Akhgar is now discussing another [...]

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Mozilla is about to release an update for the latest stable version of Firefox. Firefox 8.0.1 will be released less than two weeks after the release of Firefox 8, the latest stable version of the popular Internet browser. A fast release like this usually indicates a serious problem that needs to be addressed right away. [...]

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Web browser bookmarks seem to have lost much of their appeal in past years. The same can be said for bookmarking sites like Delicious which have seen a drop in user count. Question is: What are users doing instead? Are they posting interesting links to their social networking profiles to have them available there? This [...]

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After having some initial troubles getting my add-ons to work under Firefox 10 Aurora I had time to look at the changes and new features of this release. Firefox 10 will be the next but one stable release of the web browser which means that stable channel users will have to wait about 12 weeks [...]

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Firefox 9 Aurora was updated to Firefox 10 Aurora a few minutes ago. The update dialog listed several incompatible add-ons which I ignored at that time as I’m using the Mozilla Add-On Compatibility Reporter to make add-ons compatible. When I started Firefox 10 after the upgrade installation I noticed that the web browser listed all [...]

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