Mozilla Plans to Silently Update Future Firefox Releases
Borrowing another trick from Google’s Chrome browser, Firefox will soon move its update process to the background, where it won’t bother users.
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Beta Update: Firefox 8 Offers Smarter Tab Restore
The official release of Firefox is now at version 7, which means that all the other Firefox channels have also been bumped up. Nightly now sits at version 10, Aurora at 9 and Beta now contains Firefox 8, which has several new features worth noting, including more control over add-ons and the ability to limit [...]
Amazon’s Silk Web Browser Adds New Twist to Old Idea
One of the headline features of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is a completely new Web browser called Silk that is designed with a “split” architecture, allowing it to offload much of the heavy lifting to Amazon’s cloud computing cluster for superior browsing performance.
When the user requests a webpage in Silk, the request will be [...]
Speedier Firefox 7 Uses Less Memory
Mozilla has released Firefox 7. Thanks to the faster release cycle, Firefox 7 comes just six weeks after Firefox 6 and brings some significant speed boosts that make it well worth the upgrade.
If you’d like to take Firefox 7 for a spin, head over to the Mozilla downloads page. Current Firefox users will be automatically [...]
Firefox: Speed Up, Slow Down, Go All Around
A pair of new proposals could see Firefox’s rapid-release development cycle both speeding up and slowing down.
Chrome 14 Adds Better Audio, ‘Native Client’ Support
Google has bumped Chrome 14 from the beta channel into the mainstream. Chrome 14 includes some improvements for Mac OS X users, support for the Web Audio API and Google’s “Native Client” tools are now enabled by default.
If you’d like to try out Chrome 14, head on over to the downloads page.
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Metro-style Internet Explorer 10 Ditches Flash, Plugins
Windows 8 will have two versions of Internet Explorer 10: a conventional browser that lives on the legacy desktop, and a new Metro-style, touch-friendly browser that lives in the Metro world. The second of these, the Metro browser, will not support any plugins. Whether Flash, Silverlight, or some custom business app, sites that need plugins [...]
Test Drive Firefox for Android Today
Mozilla has released Firefox for Tablets. The currently nightly build is still very rough around the edges, but it offers curious testers a working preview of what’s to come.
Reflecting on Chrome as Browser Hits Third Birthday
Google launched its Chrome Web browser on September 1, 2008—three years ago today. In the time since its debut, Google’s Web browser has attracted a considerable following and influenced other browser vendors. To celebrate the anniversary, Google has published an interactive HTML5 infographic that presents the history of the major Web browsers and Web standards. [...]
Mozilla Shows Off Firefox for Tablets
Mozilla is showing off some mockups of what Firefox might look like on a tablet. Currently in development for Android 3.0, the Mozilla Mobile Team hasn’t yet announced a release date, but the early design mockups reveal a sleek, Android-looking Firefox.
The tablet version of Firefox will be, according to Ian Barlow, Mozilla’s mobile user experience [...]
