Mozilla has released a new beta of Firefox for Android which includes a major overhaul of the user interface. For the first time Firefox Mobile now includes a new user interface that uses Android design elements and support for Adobe Flash. You can download Firefox Mobile 14 beta for Android from the Google Play Store. It requires Android 2.2 or…
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Microsoft has already made it clear that Windows 8 will function differently on devices with ARM and x86 processors. In fact, things will be so different that the company is giving the version of the upcoming operating system designed for ARM-based tablets and other devices a different name: Windows RT. While Windows 8 and Windows RT will look a lot…
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Mozilla is working on new designs for Firefox, bringing the same basic user interface to the web browser across multiple platforms. The Android, Windows 8 Metro, Boot 2 Gecko, and desktop Windows, Mac, and Linux browsers could all look a lot more alike in the future than they do today. Firefox developer Madhava Enros has posted a series of slides…
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Mozilla Firefox is taking another page out of the Google Chrome handbook. Not only does Mozilla’s web browser now include tabs at the top of the screen and a rapid release schedule. It also installs updates in the background without asking you to do anything — assuming you’re running Windows. Firefox 12 hit the streets today, and like the past…
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The version of Internet Explorer that comes with Windows 8 is surprisingly not bad… but choice is always a good thing — especially if you care about support for open standards. So it’s nice to know that Mozilla is already working on a version of the Firefox web browser for Windows 8. Like Internet Explorer 10, Firefox for Windows 8…
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Adobe has laid out a roadmap for future development of Adobe Flash, and one of the things that caught my eye is that Flash Player 11.2 will be the last official standalone version of the browser plugin for Linux. While Adobe will continue to support Flash Player 11.2 for Linux with security updates for several years, the company is moving…
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Mozilla is getting into the app store game with the introduction of Mozilla Marketplace — a store for apps based on web technologies including HTML5 and Mozilla APIs. Google already has a similar app store called the Chrome Web Store, where developers can share apps for use in the Chrome web browser or Chrome OS operating system. Mozilla Marketplace could…
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Mozilla is working on a new version of the Firefox web browser that’s designed to work with the new Metro user interface for Windows 8. That means that Windows 8 tablet owners won’t be restricted to using the touch-friendly version of Internet Explorer 10 that will come with Microsoft’s next-generation operating system. Right now Firefox for Metro is still in…
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Since Mozilla switched to a “rapid release” schedule for the popular Firefox web browser, we’ve gotten a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks like clockwork. These often aren’t huge, game-changing releases, but there are bug fixes and new features in every browser update. This week Mozilla is pushing out Firefox 10. It has a few little updates such as…
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Mozilla is taking a page out of the Ubuntu playbook and promising to offer long-term support for selected versions of its software. The web browser maker recently moved to a rapid release schedule with a new version of Firefox coming out every six weeks. Often the updates are not dramatically different from earlier versions, but new features, security updates, and…
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Mozilla has released version 9 of the Firefox web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The latest update is also the first to include a new tablet-friendly user interface for devices running Android 3.0 and up. Like the mobile phone version of the app, Firefox for tablets lets you access browser tabs by sliding from left to right across…
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Mozilla has finished work on Firefox 8, the latest version of the company’s popular web browser. Since switching to a rapid release schedule, new versions of the browser don’t always pack exciting new features — and Firefox 8 is a pretty minor update. But it does have a few nice improvements. The browser will officially launch later this week, but…
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