It took a very long time from Firefox 3 to Firefox 4. Guess how long it will take from Firefox 4 to Firefox 5! According to plans published in Mozilla’s Weekly Engineering Newsletter not that long, or does months sound like a long time? Plans are to follow Google Chrome’s footsteps at least in the [...]

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The move from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4 will be a major one. Not only functionality wise but also interface wise. Firefox users will have to cope with a lot of changes that the user interface team has made over the past couple of beta releases. We have criticized several of those changes as they [...]

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One of the biggest privacy related problem on the Internet these days are information that are stored by the browser on the local computer. Most web browsers come with built-in tools to delete most of the data if the user knows how to configure the settings properly. To make matters worse, some data like Local [...]

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Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser available for Mac and PC as well as Android and several other operating systems. Firefox has built its focus around a practical, minimalist design and low, light weight memory usage. First released in 2004 with Mozilla Thunderbird as part of Mozilla Suite, Firefox quickly gained popularity among users [...]

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Windows XP stays on top of the operating system market share while Windows 7 continues to gain grounds. The latest market share statistics are in and they confirm recent trends. Windows XP is still the top operating system with a market share between 51% (Statcounter) and 57% (Hitslink). That’s a comfortable lead as it is [...]

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First spotted by Lee over at the Download Squad, the latest official beta of Firefox 4 has been released by the Mozilla development team responsible for the web browser. The release is currently in distribution which means it may take a while before it becomes officially available on the homepage. Currently, Firefox 4 Beta 7 [...]

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Many companies seem to add information to specific pages on their websites. A prime example is Google Search which turned from a minimalistic page into a complex page with lots of elements on the page. Another example is Amazon and its product pages. These pages are filled with information, ads and other information related to [...]

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The Mozilla team seems to be back on track with the release of the seventh beta of the upcoming web browser Firefox 4. The release marks a milestone in the development as this is the first feature complete release of version 4 of the Internet browser. What does it mean? That the developers won’t add [...]

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Google Chrome users have an option to enable experimental browsing features for some time now. Previously all they had to do was enter about:labs into the Chrome address bar to open the page with the available experimental features. The Chrome devs have changed the page to about:flags now, essentially leaving everything else as is. Firefox [...]

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