Mozilla Firefox Abandons Internet Explorer plug-in

We have just learned that Mozilla were thinking of developing a plug-in that would allow Internet Explorer to run on Firefox. Mozilla had hope that this could turn IE into a decent browser, but decided not to go ahead with the idea. This is something that Google should have done as well. Read more

Mozilla Firefox update will differ from Google Chrome

It has been reported that Mozilla are planning a major update to their Firefox browser, in which they will focus specifically on the appearance and interface aspects of the browser. Read more

Mozilla: Firefox Flash Player check helps 10 million update

Following on from the recent update to Mozilla Firefox which advised people to update their flash player, it has been revealed that around 30% of users with an old version of flash, updated to the latest version. Read more

Microsoft’s Windows 7 Browser Plan: Mozilla wants it rejected

Following all of the controversial news regarding European versions of Windows 7 being bundled with Internet Explorer 8, it now seems that Mozilla have launched a campaign to try and convince the European Union antitrust regulators to demand more from Microsoft. Read more

Mozilla Firefox 3.5: Bug not a risk

Mozilla’s vice president Mike Shaver has released a statement to nullify the current rumors suggesting that a bug in Firefox 3.5 could be exploited, he said. “The reports by press and various security agencies have incorrectly indicated that this is an exploitable bug,” and “Our analysis indicates that it is not, and we have seen no example of exploitability.” Read more

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Security Vulnerability

Since Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 back in June security wise it has almost been faultless, however yesterday Mozilla confirmed a security vulnerability had been discovered, this bug is said to potentially allow a hacker to hijack a machine running the browser. Read more

Firefox 3.6 scheduled for release in 2010: wishlist

With Mozilla launching the popular internet browser Firefox 3.5 yesterday, experts were impressed however suggested that they would need to do more than that to stay competitive with the ever expanding browsers that have emerged lately. With this in mind people have been asking what they want with the next major version which should be called Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and released sometime in 2010. Read more

Mozilla Firefox 3.1 alpha July, beta version August, final release 08 or early 09

We all know about the brand new Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and of course have downloaded it myself and must say it is great, well just weeks after the Firefox 3.0 the open-source developer has just put across new ship dates for the all new version, obviously if approved, they are hoping to produce an alpha release next month and the final no later than early 2009.

Mozilla are hoping to have the first Firefox 3.1 developer preview, or alpha, ready by July and then want to move to beta by august, A month ago, when Mozilla first started discussing Firefox 3.1 internally, the company’s vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, said the upgrade’s target ship date was the end of 2008. Hopefully if Mozilla keeps with that plan Firefox 3.1 would be its first fast-track update of course with a development timeline much shorter than usual. The all new Firefox 3.1 will have so many new features that did not make it into the recent Firefox 3.0.

Some of the new improvements they hope to include into Firefox 3.1 are that of changes to the revamped book-marking that debuted in 3.0 plus some modifications to a brand new amped-up location bar. Some of the changes do in fact rely on improvements to the Gecko engine that underpins Firefox plus of course other applications, applications like Mozilla Messaging Thunderbird e-mail client, the devs are working on Gecko 1.9.1 at the same time as Mozilla Firefox 3.1.

Oh just a recap on Firefox 3.0 downloads, since the 17th of June launch more than 21.8 million copies of Firefox 3.0 were downloaded.

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