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Firefox 52 Release Marks End for Windows XP and NPAPI
After over a decade, the relationship between Windows XP and Firefox is finally coming to an end. With the roll-out of Firefox 52, Mozilla is releasing the final version of their still popular browser to support Windows XP. Another operating system getting cut as is well is decade old Windows…
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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 Organizaion Reveals New moz://a Logo
After kicking off a rebranding consultation in August, Mozilla Organization, the creators of popular browser Firefox, have finally decided on a new logo and branding. Finally moving from the aged dragon lizard logo, we now have moz://a. Honestly, out of the 7 choices that Mozilla offered up for comments back in August, moz://a…
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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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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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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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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 Wont Get the Secrets Behind FBI’s Hack
When the FBI started taking people to court for accessing and storing illegal materials that they had managed to track back thanks to a vulnerability in the Tor browser, people started to worry just how the FBI had managed to track the defendants. When Mozilla wanted to know the secrets…
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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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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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Mozilla Bans Popular YouTube Unblocker Add-On
One of Firefox’s popular add-ons has been kicked from the repository after repeated bad behavior, and it is unlikely to come back. The YouTube add-on uses a list of proxy servers to circumvent geoblocking of YouTube videos, which in itself is a very useful feature, but one that you’ll have to…
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Brave – The Browser That Blocks All External Ads
Created by Brendan Eich, co-founder and ex-CEO of Mozilla, yesterday revealed the new “Brave” browser, which disables all online ads and their associated tracking. This may sound too good to be true for users of ad blockers, and in a way, it is. The crucial selling point of the Brave…
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