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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Google has rolled out an updated version of its Chrome web browser which lets you access a list of currently open browser tabs on any device. In other words, you can surf the web while eating breakfast at home, and when you get to work you can fire up your web browser and see a list of all the web…
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The Opera Mobile web browser for Google Android lets you surf the web with multiple browser tabs, arrange your favorite bookmarks on a “Speed Dial” home page, and sync your settings with the desktop version of the browser. Now you can also use extensions to add extra features to the web browser, thanks to an experimental build of Opera Mobile…
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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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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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Google has released a new tool that lets you send any web page you’re reading on a PC with the Chrome web browser to a mobile device running the new Chrome browser for Android 4.0. It’s called Chrome to Mobile Beta, and it has a few advantages over the older Chrome to Phone tool. Like Chrome to Phone, you can…
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Google has launched a public beta of the Google Chrome web browser for Android. It’s available from the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and up. The new browser uses the same rendering engine as the desktop version of Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux — and it has the same user interface, so it should be…
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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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