Toady, the lead developer of Cyberfox proclaimed the death of the web browser in an article entitled Cyberfox and its future direction. Cyberfox is a Firefox-based browser that is available as processor-specific […]
The most comprehensive Firefox privacy and security settings collection has been updated to version 0.11 to take into account changes in newer versions of Firefox. Ghacks champion Pants created the initial list […]
2017 is just a couple of days away, and it will be an interesting year if you are interested in technology. What will 2017 bring for web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Edge […]
Adobe has just released the first final Adobe Flash Player stable release, Flash Player 24, for GNU/Linux in years. The company announced back in September 2016 that it would bring back Flash […]
Mozilla announced a far reaching change coming to the organization's Firefox web browser in late 2017. The organization plans to cut support of all extension technologies but the rather new WebExtensions when […]
NoScript, the one must have add-on for Firefox if you ask me, has received an update recently that introduces full multi-process compatibility (e10s). This paves the way for enabling Firefox's multi-process architecture […]
The following guide walks you through the steps of adding custom search engines to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer. The guide covers the major browsers on […]
Mozilla announced on September 30, 2016 that it made the decision to enforce stronger Diffie-Hellman keys in the Firefox web browser. Firefox users who visit websites that use weak -- now less […]
The Firefox web browser is available as a 32-bit and 64-bit application for all supported desktop operating systems including Windows. The 64-bit Firefox version for Windows is a fledgling however when compared […]
Mozilla Firefox is a great browser. Not everyone may agree with me on this but that is fine and expected. Firefox is the browser that gives users the most control over their […]
While most browser makers plan to drop support for Java, Flash and other plugins such as Silverlight or Quicktime, or have stopped supporting these technologies already, there are still a lot of […]
The browser editions overview lists companies that produce web browsers, the different versions of these browsers, supported operating systems, and download links for each. Most companies that work on web browsers, be […]
If you are running Chrome on a Windows XP or Vista machine, you will have received a notification by now on the browser's new tab page that informs you that support for […]
I have published quite a few articles over the years in which I analyzed the rise and decline of operating systems or web browsers, but never really revealed how the situation looks […]
BrowserAddonsView is a new application by Nirsoft that provides you with an overview of installed extensions in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. It is quite easy to keep an eye on installed […]
Pure URL is a free browser extension for all recent versions of Firefox and Google Chrome -- and likely also Firefox-based and Chrome-based browsers like Pale Moon or Opera -- that removes […]
Mozilla removed one of the available cookie control options in Firefox 44 effectively disabling the option for users to decide what to do with cookies that sites want to set on a […]
The majority of web browsers are offered as 32-bit and 64-bit version nowadays, and it is up to the user to decide which version to run on the computer. This comparison guide […]
Mozilla launches a stable version of Firefox 64-bit for the Microsoft Windows operating system this month in silent fashion. While it is available for download, it is not yet listed on the […]
Mozilla announced yesterday that it plans to remove heavyweight theme support from Firefox as part of the organization's great or dead initiative. Heavyweight themes, sometimes also called full themes or complete themes, […]
While there is certainly some truth to the saying that good things take time, no one probably anticipated the drama surrounding the release of a 64-bit version of Firefox. If they would […]
Your favorite Firefox add-on just stopped working in the browser or refuses to install? If that happens to you it could be because of a new policy over at Mozilla that requires […]
Microsoft pushed out Windows 10 build 10240 yesterday to Windows Insider users which is the RTM build of the operating system. Along with the announcement came the claim that the new default […]
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system ships with Microsoft Edge as the default browser. Microsoft Edge replaced Internet Explorer as the main browser on Windows 10 and while it is still possible to […]
Mozilla will enforce the signing of extensions in Firefox in Firefox 40. This particular version of Firefox is scheduled for release on August 11, 2015 to the stable channel. Add-on signing refers […]
In what appears to be a rather rushed decision, Mozilla disabled supported for binary XPCOM components in extensions in the Gecko engine when Firefox 40 is released. While it is being introduced […]
Ken Saunders from Access Firefox just mailed me a tip on how to browse Pinterest without registration. If you have been to the site you know that it throws a registration form […]
Mozilla announced in February 2015 that it would require add-ons to be signed in the near future to improve security and privacy for users of the browser. The idea here was to […]
Bookmarks tend to grow over time if you are making use of the feature that every modern and not so modern browser supports at least to a degree. Bookmarks are links that […]
Browser bookmarks have not changed a lot in recent time. The only major feature that most browsers introduced is bookmark syncing to synchronize bookmarks across devices. Firefox Sync or Google Sync require an […]
The conquest to rid the web of proprietary plug-ins is in full swing. While it will take years to get rid of them all, the web is slowly transitioning away from plug-ins. […]
If you are a Twitter regular using the main website of the service as your entry point and not an app or program, you may have noticed promoted content on the site […]
Windows users who wanted to run a 64-bit version of Firefox in the past were limited to the Nightly Channel up until now as it was the only channel that offered 32-bit […]
I published an article just yesterday about unique Firefox extensions praising the extension API of the web browser. Mozilla announced today that it will introduce extensions signing later this year which changes […]
The video hosting site YouTube supports Adobe Flash and HTML5 Video and delivers videos based on the web browser and system used to access the site. Chrome users were defaulted to the […]
Privacy is probably the number one reason why you may not want others to access your computer. It does not really matter if you want to protect your browsing history, financial documents, […]
Software interface design changes, or entire redesigns, are often controversial updates. It happens that visual updates are disliked that much that users move to alternatives instead. We have seen that with Firefox's […]
Firefox users who run the browser on Windows systems have two options currently when it comes to running it as a 64-bit application. They can either run the 64-bit Nightly channel version […]
Support for 64-bit versions of web browsers on Windows is severely lacking. Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome are not offered as 64-bit versions on Windows yet, at least not when it comes […]
The stock Firefox browser, with that I mean the releases that are available for download on the Mozilla website directly, can be run on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. While that […]
