Firefox News & Articles

Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser's Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don't want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer market share is back on the rise thanks to its use in Windows Phone 7 smartphones. But it won't have everything its own way as Mozilla plans to bring Firefox to Windows 8 tablets.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," says Internet Explorer, as Microsoft's default Windows web browser regains some of the market share previously lost to its major competitors Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Word came from Mozilla of a new revenue agreement between Google and Mozilla, makers of the Firefox Search engine. The announcement on the official Mozilla Blog called the deal a "new agreement for default search in Firefox," extending the search relationship with Google for three more years.   

In early December, the web was abuzz with word that the long-standing deal between Google and Mozilla (Firefox) had not been renewed. While the companies were in negotiation throughout November, the hour passed, and the default search engine relationship that started in 2006, practically the Stone Age in web chronology, was dead.

Ever notice how your newly installed Firefox browser would always default to the Google search site? That’s because of a lucrative deal Mozilla, owner of the Firefox brand, cut with Google back in 2006, in the pre-Chrome days. Well, the world has shifted since then and with the November expiration of the Google deal, Mozilla could stand to lose up to 80% of company revenue according to Computerworld. And while the deal has reaped a windfall for Mozilla, it also gave Google time to develop what is now a rising star in the quest for King of the Browser Hill.  

As usual, you can grab the latest version of Firefox from the product servers before it goes live for general consumption. This iteration offers new features, better Twitter integration and improved start-up performance tweaks.

In a new blog post, the Firefox team has unveiled its tablet-specific web browser, showing a feature-packed app for the Honeycomb-powered tablets.

Since its launch, Google Chrome (news, site) has been pretty much rock-solid in terms of security, to the extent that Google has offered rewards to hackers who can break into Chrome. A recent turn of events might prove that Chrome may not be so secure after all.

Fact #1: Firefox is my preferred web browser. Fact #2: I have written a few articles chronicling the government’s and web browser’s efforts to provide Internet users with a Do Not Track option. Fact #3: I had to consult Firefox’s support page to learn how to enable the “Do Not Track” feature.

Web browsers are often a highly personal choice. You would usually have a preference based on speed, feature set and compatibility. With the recent release of IE9 and Firefox 4 claiming to be faster than ever, tests have been run to determine speed and stability on each.

Microsoft's (news, site) latest browser is now official for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, while Firefox 4's final test is publically available.

As in many things having to do with the Internet, there’s a predilection to complicate rather than simplify, exaggerate rather than plainly-speak and obfuscate rather than be transparent…and the current privacy solutions being offered by the Web browser triumvirate -- Microsoft, Mozilla and Google -- are no exception.

It seems just a blip in time ago that we were hoping for big things from Microsoft's (news, site) Internet Explorer 8, but two years later, a bigger, better, but nicer-playing replacement is already here.

In an attempt to comply with the recent wishes of the Federal Trade Commission, the World Wide Web's biggest browsers are each working on solutions aimed at helping users avoid behavioral targeting. 

The latest action on the browser wars battlefield is a dual of opt-out skills. Yesterday, both Mozilla and Google announced the inclusion of tools in their respective browsers that make it easier for users to withdraw from behavioral tracking.