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Whoosh! Chrome shimmies past Mozilla’s Firefox in global browser market share, IE still rulez

December 2nd, 2011 12:43pm 1 comment

Whoosh! Chrome shimmies past Mozilla’s Firefox in global browser market share, IE still rulez

For the first time, Google’s Chrome web browser has shimmied past Mozilla’s Firefox global browser market share, becoming the second most popular browser on the planet in November 2011.

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Firefox slowing to a crawl? Check out the bad boy extensions here

April 4th, 2011 5:45pm No comments

Firefox slowing to a crawl? Check out the bad boy extensions here

We got so fed up with Firefox getting slower and slower that we switched to Chrome, but Mozilla’s now gone on the offensive and pointing the blame at the developers of some plug ins.
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Firefox 4 promises ‘huge performance enhancements’ [video]

March 22nd, 2011 12:41pm No comments

Firefox 4 promises 'huge performance enhancements'

Set to arrive today across the Windows/Mac/Linux platforms is the latest version of Firefox, serving up a less-cluttered, minimalistic interface, synchronisation and a claimed thumping great speed increase.

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Firefox 4 Beta adds well sorted multi-touch support [video]

August 12th, 2010 11:56am No comments

Firefox 4 Beta adds awesome Multi-touch support

Mozilla has released its latest version of the Firefox 4 Beta, with the updated browser packing a truckload of bug fixes and some mighty impressive mullti-touch functionality.

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Internet Explorer soars while Firefox gets a kick in the goolies

August 2nd, 2010 9:15am No comments

Internet Explorer soars while Firefox gets a kick in the goolies

Microsoft continues to revive the fortunes of its once-ailing Internet Explorer (IE), with new figures from NetMarketShare reporting that the browser has  increased its share of the browser market in by 0.42 per cent in July to bag a total share of 60.74 per cent.

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Firefox Home for the iPhone keeps your desktop browser in sync

July 16th, 2010 12:05pm No comments

Firefox Home for the iPhone keeps things in sync

If you’re an iPhone owner and Firefox is your desktop browser of choice, there’s good news in store, as Apple has accepted a new application called ‘Firefox Home‘ to the App Store.

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Worldwide browser share: IE slips, Firefox falters, Chrome soars

June 2nd, 2010 10:46am No comments

Worldwide browser share: IE slips, Firefox falters, Chrome soars

Once the mighty, all-conquering colossus of internet browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share, with new data on browser use trends revealing that it’s now used by less than 6 out of 10 surfers.

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Firefox Home for the iPhone imports browser bookmarks and tabs

May 27th, 2010 10:28am No comments

Firefox Home for the iPhone imports bookmarks and tabs

Thanks to Steve Jobs’ iron-like grip on what is allowed in Apple’s AppStore, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see a version of the massively popular Firefox browser running on an iPhone – which makes it a pain for Firefox users to sync their bookmarks.

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Firefox hits v3.6, throws up funky one click themes, speedier browsing

January 22nd, 2010 12:29pm 4 comments

Firefox hits v3.6, throws up funky one click themes, speedier browsingIt’s taken a while to get drrssed, but the latest 3.6 version of Firefox has finally rocked into town.

Promising nippier performance, natty one-click themes, safer add-ons and plug-ins, improved font handling and other life enhancing properties the browser is now ready for your downloading pleasure.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 email client – full review

November 26th, 2009 9:15am 1 comment

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 - full reviewMozilla Thunderbird, the free email client produced by the makers of the Firefox browser, has recently undergone some important revisions, and is now available as Thunderbird 3.0 RC1.

RC stands for Release Candidate, meaning that this version of Thunderbird 3 is designed for testing, and might still have a few bugs, so don’t install it in production environments.

I’ve been using Thunderbird 3 in its various Beta iterations for a while, and have now updated to RC1, and I believe that this latest version of the popular email client is a considerable improvement over its predecessors.

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Firefox is five years old

November 9th, 2009 10:51am No comments

Firefox is five years old

Launched on November 9, 2004, the web browser Firefox is now five years old.

Starting life as an experimental arm of the Mozilla project, whose hefty suite of apps included a web browser, mail client, news reader, irc client and web page editor (Mozilla Composer), Firefox looked to offer a slimmed-down alternative to the wobbly lard of Internet Explorer.

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