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Mozilla Gives Up on Firefox OS Ambitions
While Mozilla is best known for their popular Firefox browser, the non-profit group does several other ventures. One of the most prominent ones is the Firefox OS, aimed squarely at being an Android competitor. After facing a rough time in the market, Mozilla has finally pulled the plug on the…
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Ex-Mozilla Engineer: Uninstall Third-Party Antivirus Software Now
A former engineer for Firefox developer Mozilla has advised PC users to avoid installing third-party antivirus software on their systems. Robert O’Callahan felt comfortable making this bold assertion following his departure from Mozilla last year. The reasoning for his extreme position is that antivirus programs, as well as being “slow…
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Firefox and Chrome Will Label HTTP Sites Insecure
With each passing day, it feels like there are more revelations coming out about spying by various nefarious actors. In an effort to make it harder on attackers, the industry as a whole is continuing the push to reduce HTTP connections and move to HTTPS. To help move things along…
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Mozilla Lays Out Long Term Firefox Multi-Process Plans
Ever since the rise of multiple tabs in a browser, the logical extension has been to adopt multiple processes as well. Since 2009, both Internet Explorer and Chrome adopted this strategy, separating the browser frame from the rendering engine for each tab(s). At the same time, Mozilla announced plans to…
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10 Percent of Firefox Users Are Running Windows XP
Mozilla Firefox has been a popular alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for well over a decade and employs the open source initiative. In recent years, the browser’s market share has fallen behind Google Chrome and doesn’t look like narrowing the gap anytime soon. To be fair, Firefox still provides a…
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Firefox 48 with Multi-Process Finally Arrives
A bit over a month since it was first revealed, Mozilla has finally released their 48th version of Firefox. As expected, the new update brings in a host of long-awaited features that will fundamentally change the browser and hopefully make it more stable and user-friendly.The biggest and most anticipated upgrade of course, is…
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LastPass Flaws Hands Out Passwords to Hackers
eBay, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit. With so many accounts it’s often hard to come up with and remember, unique passwords for every site and account we use on a regular basis. With people using more and more accounts for everything its hard to keep track of your passwords without making them…
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Mozilla Separates Your Browsing With Containers
You’re at work and suddenly realise, you were expecting that important email or needed to quickly purchase something on Amazon. The problem is that you’re already logged in with the work account. Aside from opening up a private browser (something that never looks right at work) or turning on your…
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Microsoft Wants To Prove That Edge Is Better For Your Battery
We all love browsing the internet, be it reading your favourite tech news site or watching cute cat videos online, sometimes your phone just doesn’t have what you need. When you have to be mobile and use some decent computing power, you’ll be looking at using your laptop. If you were…
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Firefox 48 Finally Brings Multi-Process
After what has seemed like years of talk, Firefox is finally going multi-process. Starting with today’s beta of Firefox 48, the Mozilla browser will finally run with more than a single process. This will finally bring parity with their strongest rival, Google Chrome. The multi-process effort is part of the…
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Firefox Bumps Microsoft Browsers Down to Third Place
Arriving to market in the early 2000s, Mozilla Firefox soon offered a viable alternative to the Microsoft Internet Explorer dominated landscape. After defeating Netscape, Microsoft IE soon stagnated and Firefox became the go-to browser for those who wanted more. Even with the rise of Chrome, Firefox has retained a loyal following over…
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Mozilla Wants to Know How the FBI Hacked Tor
After it was revealed that the FBI had managed to take control of a site hosting illegal material, people were quickly asking how they had managed to use it identify a person amongst the thousands of users connecting to the site. Now it would seem that Mozilla, the company behind…
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Cortana Search Box Will Now Only Use Bing and Edge
In recent years, Microsoft has been less than subtle with the ways they push their products onto people. From the auto installation of windows 10 components to the annoying little popup reminding you to constantly update to the new OS. The next step would seem to affect those who actually use Windows…
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Microsoft to Offer Tool for Porting Chrome Extensions to Edge
With the release of their new operating system, Windows 10, Microsoft has been keen on getting users to use their new software. Not just their operating system is new, though, with Edge replacing the demonised Internet explorer. One thing that has kept users from accepting and using the new browser…
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Gaming in Your Browser is About to Get Interesting With WebAssembly
WebAssembly, it may be something that most of you have never really heard of, but it’s going to have a huge impact on the way we use or web browsers. WebAssembly is a compiling technology, which is capable of bringing browser output closer to that of native machine code; not…
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