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  Chrome streaks past Internet Explorer to become world's top browser

  If the numbers at StatCounter are accurate then the world has a new Web browser champion: Google Chrome.

  By Brad Reed | 22 May, 2012 01:33

  Tags: software, mozilla, Microsoft, LAN & WAN, internet explorer, IE9, IE10, Google Chrome vs. Microsoft IE, Google Chrome, Google, firefox, browsers, applications

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  Mozilla releases Firefox for Android beta

  Mozilla released a new beta version of its popular Firefox browser for Android on Tuesday.

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 16 May, 2012 07:19

  Tags: mozilla, mobile, firefox

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  Windows 8 update: Firefox, Chrome cry foul over Windows 8 ARM

  Microsoft is taking heat from browser competitors Firefox and Chrome for blocking them out of planned Windows 8 devices that will be based on ARM processors.

  By Tim Greene | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  Tags: Windows 8, Windows, software, operating systems, mozilla, Microsoft, firefox, chrome, browser wars

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  Firefox first browser to encrypt Google search by default

  Mozilla is expected within in months to begin encrypting Google searches by default in its Firefox browser, according to security and privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian.

  By Liam Tung | 22 March, 2012 11:15

  Tags: firefox, Google

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  Mozilla begins Windows 8 Firefox development

  A Mozilla engineer says development of a touch-centric version of Firefox for Windows 8 has begun in earnest and also highlighted a few interesting details about Web browsing in Windows 8.

  By Ian Paul | 13 March, 2012 03:13

  Tags: applications, browsers, firefox, mozilla, operating systems, software, Windows, Windows 8

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  Google Chrome share suffers with tweak of browser use calculation

  A change in the way browser usage is calculated led to a decline in web browser market share for Google Chrome, which experienced its second market share slip this year after growing steadily throughout 2011.

  By Ann Bednarz | 02 March, 2012 06:44

  Tags: browser, chrome, firefox, Google, IE, net applications, opera, safari, software

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  Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

  What a difference a year makes. A year ago, I was intrigued by Motorola Mobility's Lapdock, a laptop without a brain into which you plugged a Motorola Android smartphone to run it on a full-size screen, with full-size keyboard, trackpad, SD card slot, and USB and HDMI ports for access to USB peripherals and mirrored screen display to a TV or monitor. A year ago, I saw the Lapdock as a wonderful innovation that presaged an era in which a smartphone is your main -- and perhaps only -- computing device, plugging into resources when needed to scale up to a desktop PC.

  By Galen Gruman | 28 February, 2012 22:11

  Tags: Android, applications, cloud computing, Computer Hardware, consumer electronics, consumerization of IT, firefox, hardware systems, internet, laptops, mobile technology, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, smartphones, software, web browsers

• In Pictures: Firefox Faceoff - Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

  Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7.

  By Howard Wen | 14 February, 2012 08:52

  Tags: firefox, Nightly, pale moon, waterfox

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  Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

  Although computers running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 have become more common, there aren't many Windows-compatible browsers compiled to run on 64-bit processors. (The exception for now has been Internet Explorer 9.)

  By Howard Wen | 14 February, 2012 00:25

  Tags: applications, firefox, firefox nightly, mozilla, operating systems, pale moon, software, waterfox, web browsers, Windows, Windows 7

• Five tips to make your Facebook Timeline amazing

  Facebook Timeline currently is rolling out to all users worldwide, and--whether you like it or not--the new default profile layout will be hitting your Facebook account in the coming weeks.

  By Ian Paul | 10 February, 2012 01:59

  Tags: chrome, Facebook, firefox, internet, Internet-based applications and services, microsoft internet explorer, opera, social networking

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  Adobe releases sandboxed Flash beta for Firefox

  Adobe has released an important security feature for Flash Player on Firefox 4.0 and higher, delivering a public beta that sandboxes its processes in the browser on Windows.

  By Liam Tung | 07 February, 2012 12:43

  Tags: Adobe, adobe flash, beta, firefox

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  Speedy Firefox 9 beta versions take their place in line

  Hard on the heels of the release earlier this week of Firefox 8, Mozilla on Thursday released the beta versions of the next Firefox in line.

  By Katherine Noyes | 12 November, 2011 04:48

  Tags: applications, browsers, firefox, mozilla, services, software

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  As Chrome inches ahead, Firefox slims down

  Google's Chrome browser is slowly but surely creeping up on Firefox in terms of market share, according to the latest Net Applications data, but Mozilla continues to tweak and polish Firefox with an ongoing series of new improvements.

  By Katherine Noyes | 04 November, 2011 08:05

  Tags: applications, browsers, firefox, Google, internet, mozilla, software

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  A huge speed boost is on the way to Firefox for Android

  If there's one thing browser users can't get enough of, it's speed, and Mozilla has just announced that it's working on a change to the Android version of Firefox that will deliver a huge surge of just that.

  By Katherine Noyes | 18 October, 2011 04:20

  Tags: Android, applications, browsers, consumer electronics, firefox, mozilla, services, smartphones, software

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  Firefox 7 seekers warned to beware of bogus website

  If you're using a search engine today to find a download of Firefox 7, be careful about the results you click on. That's because a dubious website called Firefox7.org appears high up in those results.

  By John P. Mello, Jr. | 29 September, 2011 05:20

  Tags: applications, browsers, browser security, firefox, mozilla, software