Firefox users are a dedicated bunch. They love their browser and most prefer it to stay the way it is, with the exception of improved performances, web standards support and security updates. I know several Firefox 3.6.x users who stay with that browser version exactly for that reason. Mozilla recently announced plans to remove the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One “by-product” of the rapid release cycle of the Firefox web browser is the version number increase that goes along with every new release of the web browser. Firefox this year jumped from Firefox 3 all the way to the latest version Firefox 8, and we are not even at the end of the year. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

If you have visited one of the add-on repositories on the Mozilla.org website lately you must have noticed that the design and layout has changed significantly. I thought for a moment on my first visit that I was in the Chrome web store, before I realized that this was the new layout of the add-on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Mozilla have announced that they’re the latest contender for the tablet operating system crown, and have begun work on their own operating system for mobile devices and tablets.  The OS will be based on Google’s Android operating system but will have much of the code freshly written. The project, which was announced on a Mozilla [...]

Categories: Firefox, Operating Systems

Many contents on the Internet require a user account before they can be accessed and used. This means for users that they have to create an account, by entering one of their email addresses, selecting a password, username and maybe some other information. They often get a confirmation email with a link that they have [...]

Categories: Firefox

Memory usage has always been the Achilles’ heel of the Firefox browser for part of the user base. Mozilla acknowledges that and is currently working on optimizing the browser’s memory usage significantly. One would normally assume that opening a tab increases memory usage, and that closing the same tab would drop memory utilization again to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Opera and Google are already doing it, so why should not we. That’s probably the reasoning behind Mozilla’s latest move to optimize the interface of the Firefox web browser. For those who do not know (is there anyone reading my blog that does not?); The http prefix in front of website addresses in the url [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

The Firefox rapid release process that Mozilla switched to has caused some confusion about continuing support for older versions of the browser. While there was never an official support timeline before and after the process change, it was assumed by many that major versions of Firefox were supported for at least six months after release. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I’m not a huge fan of the rapid release process of the Firefox web browser or Google Chrome. Not so much as a user but as someone who is interested in following the development of a web browser, and a webmaster who likes to write about it. A new version every three months or so, [...]

Categories: Email