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Tor Announces Partnership with Mozilla
On Monday we reported Facebook’s announcement that they would be officially supporting users of the Tor browser. Now yet another web giant, this time an open source giant, Mozilla intend to help bring the private browsing network to more people. In an announcement on their website, the Tor Project confirmed the…
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Google Chrome… A Battery Killer for Windows-based Laptops?
Forbes appears to have found a major flaw in Google’s popular browser, Google Chrome. It is said that the Chrome browser consumes more battery that Mozilla’s Firefox and even Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, significantly reducing the device’s battery life. The main issue is said to be caused by the “system clock…
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Mozilla Offers Up Firefox Support For Virtual Reality
The rising interest in virtual reality has led developers over at Mozilla, makers of the Firefox Web browser, to begin testing VR interfaces for Firefox. It’s a strong move by Firefox to prepare for what is expected to become a booming market, as more consumers become familiar with VR. The…
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Firefox OS Stick To Rival Chromecast
Chromecast is a pretty cool device, but what if you’re not a fan of the Google browser? If you’re more interested in flying the Mozilla Firefox flag then it looks like you’re not going to have to miss out on content streaming from your browser for very long as the…
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Firefox Adds Accounts, Improved Sync and Customizable UI To Its Aurora Browser
Mozilla has announced a few extra features to be added to its Firefox Aurora browser. The features consist of Accounts, a customized UI feature that lets users personalize their interface and an improved Sync feature. The Accounts feature adds something that is already available in Firefox OS, and that is…
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The Sun Gives Its Approval Of Mozilla’s Firefox
Mozilla will no doubt be smiling back at the sun this morning as Scientists discover a familiar logo flashed up while monitoring solar activity. While of course you could easily say this is a loose interpretation of the Firefox logo, people see what they want to see and its not…
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Mozilla’s Lightbeam Browser Extension Allows Internet Users To Track Trackers
Mozilla recently unveiled a new browser extension called Lightbeam. Lightbeam is a browser extension which allows internet users to see exactly who’s tracking their internet usage and Mozilla claims it will “illuminate the inner workings of the web.” Lightbeam creates a visual representation of all third parties that are active on…
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LG Announced Fireweb Phone Running On Firefox OS
LG Electronics’ new smartphone based on Firefox OS offers slightly better hardware specs than competing products. Firefox OS is built around applications written in HTML5. Mozilla Foundation is pitching it as a better option for low-end smartphones, and devices running it will compete head-to-head with cheap Android smartphones and with devices…
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PirateBrowser Passes The 1 Million Downloads Milestone
The PirateBrowser has been out for a while now and the modified Firefox browser with Tor integration and the foxyproxy add-on is actually proving very popular with internet users, having managed to rack up an impressive 1 million downloads in about 3 months according to TorrentFreak. The PirateBrowser now accounts…
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NSA Saga Is Boosting Business Of Small Internet Browser Companies
StatCounter’s latest figures reveal that “non top-5” browsers are growing in popularity. Currently the top 5 web browsers in order of market share according to StatCounter are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera while the “other category” incorporates everything else. In May “other browsers” accounted for around 2.18% of…
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PirateBrowser Passes 100,000 Downloads Already
TorrentFreak reports that within just three days of being release the Pirate Browser has passed 100,000 downloads already. The Pirate Browser is the Pirate Bay’s customised browser, based on FireFox 23, and is configured to navigate around Pirate Bay blockades as well as blockades of other torrent sites. In addition…
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The Pirate Bay Releases “Pirate Browser” To Bypass Censorship And Blockades
The Pirate Bay has just announced its latest innovation to help get around blockades and censorship of its website. The “Pirate Browser” is a browser developed by the Pirate Bay to easily get around blockades of its website. The Browser is based on a pre-configured FireFox browser , FireFox 23…
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Google Paying Adblock Plus To White-list Unobtrusive Adverts
After Google recently cheesed a lot of people off by removing Ad-blocking Apps from the Google Play Store, it turns out they are now resorting to paying Adblocking App companies to white-list Google adverts. According to Horizont.at Google is funding the developers of the AdBlock Plus App to create a…
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Internet Explorer Remains World’s Number One Browser
Internet explorer isn’t exactly loved by our readers. When you tend to become a bit of a PC enthusiast or tech geek you will almost religiously avoid Internet Explorer at all costs, opting for Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Yet according to the latest usage statistics by Net Applications Internet…
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750 Million Active Users Of Google Chrome
Google Chrome is proving more and more popular by the day as it increases its market share over Internet Explorer, Firefox and many others. It was only last year that Google Chrome surpassed the total number of users of Internet Explorer, although I feel more of them may have moved…
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