In most web browsers, when you click on the new tab button or use the shortcut Ctrl-t, you get a new tab page with a set of bookmarks. The idea behind those “speed dial” like new tab pages is to give users a chance to open often visited websites quickly. Opera went ahead recently with [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Firefox 5 is a week away from being released as a final version. The browser is expected to be released as final on June 21. When you look at the changelog you will notice quite a few under the hood improvements that have not been talked about yet. HTTP Transactions sorted by CWND is one [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

When you look at the top five web browsers on today’s Internet, which are undoubtedly Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari you will notice that all but one reduce their functionality to Internet browsing. Opera is the only browser of the five that offers an integrated email client. The idea behind SeaMonkey is [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

You may have heard about Webian Shell in the news. If you did not, here is a short article that fills you in on the details. Webian Shell has been released as a prototype a few days ago. Its developer describes it as a graphical shell for the web. The basic idea is to display [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Content Security Policy is a standard developed by Mozilla designed to protect against cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. Cross site scripting attacks use vulnerabilities in websites to inject JavaScript code into pages or urls of that site. The injected JavaScript code is then executed when visitors open a specifically prepared link or page on the [...]

Categories: Firefox, Security, Twitter

While I’m still busy changing my passwords, I’m noticing several browser related news popping up in my RSS feed reader. So what’s going on today? Several websites reported that the first beta of Firefox 5 was released, and while it certainly looked that way on first glance, it turned out be a beta labeled Aurora [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Opera

It will never again take more than a year to move from one major version of Firefox to the next, at least not unless Mozilla decides to change the current development specifics again. You may have already heard that you can expect new Firefox releases every three months from now on. The development specifics that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We know that Firefox 4 will be released in just a few days time. It looks like the release candidate build will also be the final build of the browser, if nothing unforeseen happens during the last days before release. The long awaited and several times delayed next iteration of the popular web browser marks [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Is Internet Explorer 9 a modern web browser, and how does it compare to Firefox 4. Those are the two questions that Mozilla’s Paul Rouget tries to answer with an infographic and a blog post. The infographic looks at the technical side of things, web compatibility, platform support and hardware acceleration to name a few. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Internet Explorer