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So with a large part of the world quickly going mobile the browser wars are moving from the desktop to the mobile. Firefox which is the No.2 browser in the world in terms of market share has hardly had a browser in the mobile arena. A Mozilla based browser minimo was launched in 2004 and [...]

Here it comes, the much awaited Google Browser. They call it Chrome. Google announced it in its official blog.
Interestingly, they have described the entire technology behind Chrome in a comic. Here it is.
Google Chrome, from what I have seen till now, is not just another regular browser, built on top of an existing base. The [...]

Well I just discovered the addons on firefox 3 as i have been busy doing a lot of other things offlate. But after discovering the addons I said to myself “Damn this makes life super easy!” atleast if you are as active a web user as I am.

So here are my top 5 addons which [...]

Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.

This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. Existing web APIs have been utilized to create on-demand and user-created mashups.

There are rumors that Microsoft may incorporate a private browsing feature, a.k.a “porn mode,” similar to Safari. Firefox too was involved in such speculation but later on the FF3 was released without the porn mode feature.

After launching Weave 0.2, the synchronization plugin that enables data to be synchronized across multiple computers for Mozila’s Popular web browser Firefox, Mozilla Labs have now announced a new project where it wants us users to participate and contribute towards their goal of designing a next generation web-browser.

Mozilla Labs have announced the availability of Mozilla Weave v0.2, a project that will enable data synchronization from your browser across multiple computers. Originally announced back in December 2007, the 0.2 release is the third major release of the project. Moreover, the Firefox download day record, which we talked about about earlier, has now been made official.

A group of researchers from IBM’s Internet Security systems, Google and ETH Zurich have released a study which says that 40 percent of the total internet users are using outdated versions of web browsers which makes them vulnerable to attack, thus posing a security risk to any vital information stored on the user’s computer. The researchers were able to determine that out of the 1.4 billion internet users worldwide, 637 million used outdated versions of browsers.

 
Mozilla Firefox is finally all set to touch the milestone it had set out for, a Guiness Book of World Record for most number of downloads in 24 hours. Starting on June 17, 2008 (10AM Pacific Time), over 17 millions of downloads have been clocked, till date. According to Mozilla, the folks at the Guiness [...]

After a lot of speculations and hulla-baloo over the most anticipated feature of Mozilla Firefox 3.0, “Private Browsing” is not going to make it to the D-Day. According to the interview of Johnathan Nightingale on Robert Vamosi’s podcast, he says, “We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a [...]

12 months after Mozilla coming up with Firefox 2 and after 3 release candidates and 5 beta versions, the official and stable version of FireFox 3 is finally set for rollout, scheduled on June 17, 2008. There have been a lot of speculations in the blogosphere regarding the 4th release candidate of Mozilla Firefox but it seems Mozilla has finally managed to release the final version of Firefox 3.

I’ve actually been planning to do a post on some of the cooler features of Firefox via the plugins. Darshit gave me the perfect opportunity to add.
 
If one really looks at it objectively, with web based services taking more precedence, the browser has become the default gateway for users to the world of ‘computing’ – [...]

Last October, the Mozilla Foundation Announced that it would be setting its sights on Firefox Mobile.
 
 
Mitchell Baker recently told Technology Review that Firefox Mobile would be out sometime this year.
 
 
Baker said that Mozilla has been working on a module to make sure that the size and memory requirement of their code (for the Mobile Browser) [...]

Recently I read an interesting article on Crenk which states that Firefox user numbers are largest in the Oceania region. The Oceania region includes Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
 
 
Almost one in three web users in the Oceania region – 31 per cent – were using Firefox, compared to 28 per cent in Europe [...]

Mozilla Foundation, from the open-source browser Firefox fame has released sneak-peek of prototype user interface (UI) for its upcoming mobile version and Mozilla developer and project lead Doug Turner is seeking feedback and suggestions to develop the final product.
 
The mobile version is being developed for two UI:-
 

for touch screen devices (includes PDA’s, smart phones, iPhone [...]