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  • Mozilla quashes 12 Firefox bugs

    Mozilla on Tuesday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a second patch for a "binary planting" problem in Windows that researchers publicized last year.

    Written by Gregg Keizer20 Oct. 10 12:10
  • New Adobe Reader sandboxed, simplified

    Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ("Adobe Reader X"), tightened security and, for the browser version, a substantially reduced user interface. Adobe's flagship PDF creation software, Adobe Acrobat, has been upgraded as well.

    Written by Joab Jackson18 Oct. 10 15:09
  • Opera to launch full-fledged Android browser

    Opera has announced a full-fledged Opera Mobile browser for smartphones running the Google Android OS. Opera Mobile for Android, which is slated to arrived within a month, will feature hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom functionality.

    Written by Daniel Ionescu15 Oct. 10 00:38
  • SAP executive named Mozilla CEO

    The Mozilla Corporation announced Thursday that SAP executive Gary Kovacs is its new CEO, a move that gives the Firefox Web browser backer a leader with ample experience in mobile software.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus15 Oct. 10 06:20
  • Opera Mobile for Android to arrive within a month

    Opera Software will release the mobile version of its browser for Android-based smartphones within a month, the Norwegian company said in a blog post on Thursday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs14 Oct. 10 22:02
  • Firefox 4 for Android greeted with cheers and jeers

    Mozilla's release of Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Android (and Maemo) phones brought with it some cheers -- and some jeers. Though Firefox 4 Beta 1 showed improvements in some areas, it stumbled in others, leaving users yearning for speedy future enhancements. Here's a rundown of what's new with Firefox and what requires more of Mozilla's attention.

    Written by Brennon Slattery09 Oct. 10 04:44
  • Firefox 4 for Android arrives in beta version

    Mozilla has released the first beta versions of Firefox 4 for mobile phones. Versions are available for download for Android-based smartphones and for the Nokia N900, Mozilla said in blog post on Thursday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs08 Oct. 10 20:58
  • Browser market share is in the eye of the beholder

    Earlier this month Net Applications released browser share numbers showing a slight decline for Internet Explorer, but still nearly three times the market share of second place Firefox. New numbers from StatCounter, however, show Internet Explorer below 50 per cent and Firefox with more than 30 per cent. Monthly browser market share results can be fickle and vary widely depending on the methodology behind the statistics.

    Written by Tony Bradley07 Oct. 10 03:45
  • Has IE8 slowed Microsoft's browser slide?

    Although Internet Explorer (IE) continues to slowly lose the war for browser share, its rate of decline has slowed since Microsoft launched IE8, according to data from one Web metrics firm.

    Written by Gregg Keizer07 Oct. 10 06:52
  • Xmarks browser sync starts pledge drive to stay alive

    The Xmarks browser bookmark sync service is soliciting pledges from potential customers willing to pay at least $10 annually, saying that it will reconsider staying in business if it collects 100,000 promises.

    Written by Gregg Keizer05 Oct. 10 07:08
  • 4 ways Google's URL shortening service can win

    The Google URL shortening service Goo.gl, that allows you to transform long Web addresses into short easy to remember links, was opened to the public Friday. After nine months of testing the Goog.gl service, Google now joins the ranks of Bit.ly, TinyURL, and Ow.ly. All of these services cater to people who despise long URLs and use services such as Twitter to share Web address and limit messages to 140 characters.

    Written by Jared Newman03 Oct. 10 00:21
  • IE9 beta launch fails to slow Microsoft's browser slide

    The quick start of Internet Explorer 9's beta last month wasn't enough to prevent Microsoft's browser from again losing share to rivals from Google and Apple, a Web measurement firm said today.

    Written by Gregg Keizer02 Oct. 10 06:18
  • Users making the switch to cutting edge browsers

    New Web browser market share stats are out. This past month has seen a decline in the overall market share of the Internet Explorer franchise, but breaking things down by version shows that more users are adopting the latest generation of Web browsers whether it's Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome.

    Written by Tony Bradley02 Oct. 10 05:21
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