Only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Google Chrome web browser are multi-process web browsers. Multi-process meaning that they separate plugins, the web browser’s core and the different websites that are opened in processes which increases the web browser’s stability and security.
The Firefox developers have announced last year that they want to adapt the multi-process design [...]
Multi-Process Plugins Enabled In Latest Firefox Nightlies
Firefox 3.6 Download [Firefox]
Firefox 3.6 has just been released which might come as a surprise to some users who just read the news a few days ago that Firefox 3.6 RC2 had been released. It is very likely that this second release candidate and the final release are identical due to the short time span between the two [...]
Firefox 3.6 RC2 Released [Firefox]
The second release candidate of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 is currently distributed to servers worldwide to be prepared for the update process when the new release is officially announced at the Mozilla website and through the web browser’s automatic updating function.
Firefox 3.6 RC2 is already available for all supported operating systems and languages on the [...]
Mozilla Firefox Collection Offers Access To Multiple Firefox Versions [Firefox]
You might remember the Internet Explorer Collection which we reviewed some time ago. The web browser collection solved the problem of many web developer’s who had to test websites in different versions of the Internet Explorer. This was a problem as Microsoft only allowed one version of the browser to be installed at the same [...]
Latest Firefox Nightlies Comes With Multi-Process Support
One of the new trends in web browser development is to separate various modules of the web browser, like different tabs and the core engine, in different processes to increase the web browser’s stability and security. Currently only Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer support these techniques.
Lately though the guys behind the Mozilla Firefox web [...]
Mozilla Considering App Store For Add-Ons
Developers who developer add-ons for the Firefox web browser or other Mozilla software can ask for inclusion at the AMO website where everyone can download those add-ons free of charge. The only option to actually earn money from their add-ons that is offered to developers at this point is a donations module that can be [...]
Sort Tabs In Firefox
If you are one of those Firefox users who likes to have dozens of tabs open in the Firefox tabbar then you might have sometimes lost track of where specific websites where located in the tabbar. Options were to simply click through the tabs one by one until the right tab was found, to use [...]