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It's the end of the road for the Camino browser for Macs

After 10 years, developers of Camino, a Mac-only browser built atop Mozilla's Gecko engine, called it quits yesterday.

By Gregg Keizer | 31 May, 2013 19:54

Tags: Apple, Firefox, net applications, applications, Google, Mac OS X, software, intel, mozilla
Mozilla to Firefox: 'Browser, heal thyself'

Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser.

By Gregg Keizer | 15 May, 2013 10:54

Tags: web apps, Firefox, applications, Microsoft, software, internet, mozilla, Facebook
Best case, Mozilla's Firefox for Windows 8 will ship in October

Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development this fall, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 May, 2013 15:11

Tags: Firefox, Google, Windows, software, operating systems, mobile apps, mozilla
Sued Opera designer fingers Mozilla's 'Search Tabs' as root of $3.4M claim

The former Opera Software designer accused of leaking trade secrets to Mozilla denied the charges yesterday, but confirmed that the lawsuit takes aim at a search revamp he worked on while a consultant for the maker of Firefox.

By Gregg Keizer | 30 April, 2013 17:52

Tags: web apps, Apple, Firefox, opera software, Tumblr, legal, internet, mozilla
Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com

Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox.

By Tim Greene | 30 April, 2013 14:08

Tags: unified communications, Outlook.com VoIP, Microsoft Outlook.com Skype, telecommunication, Networking, Windows, software, operating systems, Firefox, voice video calls Skype Outlook.com, skype, Microsoft, voip
Opera sues ex-employee for $3.4M over alleged trade secrets violation

Trond Werner Hansen, the designer of some of the Opera Web browser's signature interface features, has been sued by that company in Norway for 20 million kroner ($3.4 million).

By Jon Gold | 29 April, 2013 22:10

Tags: Firefox, browser lawsuit, Opera browser, browser wars, software, mozilla firefox, mozilla
As browsing goes mobile, Apple wins, Mozilla loses

The trend toward browsing from phones and tablets has helped some browser makers, dramatically in one case, but hurt others in the battle for usage share, data from a metrics firm showed.

By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2013 10:50

Tags: web apps, net applications, Firefox, e-commerce, Microsoft, e-business, internet, mozilla
Mozilla pulls tracking trigger for Firefox 22, ignores ad industry attacks

Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with the online ad industry.

By Gregg Keizer | 07 April, 2013 16:44

Tags: web apps, Firefox, e-commerce, e-business, internet, mozilla
Microsoft to patch IE10 Pwn2Own bugs next week, says security expert

Microsoft will ship nine security updates next week, two rated "critical," to patch Internet Explorer, Windows, SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps and the company's anti-malware software in Windows 8 and RT.

By Gregg Keizer | 04 April, 2013 19:50

Tags: Firefox, Vupen, Google, Microsoft, Windows, software, Malware and Vulnerabilities, operating systems, mozilla
Mozilla refines Firefox's private browsing, patches 13 browser bugs

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team.

By Gregg Keizer | 03 April, 2013 11:01

Tags: web apps, Firefox, applications, Microsoft, software, internet, mozilla
Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way networking battle

Avaya unified communications products can get along with Microsoft's Lync Server, and many customers will probably choose to deploy both rather than just one, says Avaya's CEO.

By Tim Greene | 28 March, 2013 17:09

Tags: unified communications, LANs & Routers, Firefox, Microsoft, Networking, Avaya
Chrome 24 vs. Firefox 18 - head to head

With major new releases of both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox happening within days of each other, it's been a big week for the browser market. Chrome 24 began to be rolled out to stable channel users via Google's automatic background updater on Thursday, while Mozilla announced the release version of Firefox 18 on Tuesday.

By Jon Gold | 11 January, 2013 22:53

Tags: Firefox 18, Firefox, Google, browser, software, Chrome 24, chrome, mozilla
Browser battle: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera

After a long, quiet period of Microsoft dominance, the PC browser market has been broken wide-open again in recent years, with Firefox and Chrome challenging Internet Explorer, and Opera sniffing at the margins.

By Jon Gold | 03 December, 2012 13:14

Tags: Firefox vs IE, applications, Chrome vs Firefox, Chrome vs IE, tech argument, software, web browser, Internet Explorer, chrome, Apple, Firefox, Google, Microsoft
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: services, Firefox, applications, browsers, software, mozilla
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: Firefox, applications, Google, browsers, software, internet, mozilla