Tag: Firefox
Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1
TraceMonkey will speed JavaScript applications dramatically, making browsing snappier and opening new horizons for Web applications, the open-source developer promises.
Free Firefox add-on helps boost security
Perspective, a free add-on for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 has been released. Developed at the Carnegie-Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering, it works by transparently referencing a site with intermediate nodes called "notaries" around the Net. The current site's digital certificate is then compared against what has been previously spotted by the notary. Its purpose is to defend against spoofed sites, as well as possibly protecting against recently disclosed flaws in the DNS. This is particularly useful, since many sites install cheaper self-signed certificates that bypasses certificate authorities. If no match is found, the browser will display a warning to the web surfer that the site is suspicious. Michael Kassner at TechRepublic has done an excellent write-up explaining the inner workings of Perspective; check it out here. For more on the notary system:- check out this Ars Technica article
Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds.
Enable Chrome's Best Features in Firefox [Firefox]
digg_skin = 'compact';digg_bgcolor = '#F8FAF0';digg_url = 'http://digg.com/mods/How_To_Enable_All_Chrome_s_Best_Features_in_Firefox'; The internet is atwitter with Google Chrome's innovative new...
IE8 Beta 2 vs. Google Browser (Chrome) vs. Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 RC
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Google Chrome Beta and Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 Release Candidate are all development milestones of the browsers developed by Microsoft, Google and Mozilla. Of course that with the advent of Google Browser (Chrome) on September 2, 2008, the browser market is bound to see additional competition, and in this context, comparisons are inherent. IE8 Beta 2, Chrome and Firefox 3.1 have already been thrown against one another in arenas des...
Mozilla releases second Firefox 3.1 alpha
Added features include support for a new video tag element introduced with the HTML 5 standard, along with some speed enhancements.
Firefox and Norton: FIGHT!
Firefox 3.0.1 has been around for months, Norton 360 2.0 and Internet Security 2008 ditto. For many users, however, it would appear that the two cannot live happily together. So...
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Three Firefox extensions engage Google, Opera, and Microsoft
These three Firefox 3 add-ons challenge--or work with--products from rival browser companies Google, Microsoft, and Opera.
Mozilla plans mobile Firefox, plus 'public resource' usage data
Anonymous, of course - but isn't it always? Mozilla's chief has set goals for the development of the open source project over the next two years, including the release of a mobile version of Firefox by 2010.…
Firefox to bring its Mobile Web Browser
After defeating Internet Explorer Firefox is set to challenge Opera this time with Mobile Browser. Firefox plans to bring mobile browser (internally called Trace Monkey)… + view full entry


