By Sean P. Aune |
A new trojan is making the rounds for Macs, but it requires the user to actively download it for it to infect your system. Dr. Web is reporting that a new trojan known as “Trojan.Yontoo.1″ is making its way around the Internet, hunting for unsuspecting…
By Todd Haselton |
Mozilla launched Firefox Home for iOS back in July 2010, but it wasn’t a full featured browser experience that Mozilla was particularly proud of, especially because it was limited to only providing access to Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs. Mozilla recently commented on that…
By Maximum PC |
Mozilla comments on what they got right in 2012. In terms of market share, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have been trading blows, angling for the coveted second place title all year. Firefox has continued to decline, but loses on all sides are leveling out, and Chrome isn’t seeing the…
By Brandon Russell |
Devices equipped with ARMv6 architecture, devices like the Samsung Galaxy Ace and LG Optimus Q, can now use Firefox for Android. Mozilla on Monday announced that its latest update introduces support for millions more devices running the older technology, and might prefer an alternative browser…
By Killian Bell |
Google Chrome for Windows has received a new update this week, which adds a number of helpful features that promise longer battery life and “easier website permissions” for your PC. It’s a must-have for notebook users in particular, who should find that their machine now…
By Todd Haselton |
Earlier this month Mozilla announced that it was going to enter the mobile operating system space with its own Firefox-branded mobile operating system. It’s a crowded market largely dominated by iOS and Android, although Microsoft and RIM both hope that Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple, Google and Microsoft all used the month of June as a platform to announce the newest mobile operating systems each has to offer: iOS 6, Android Jelly Bean and Windows Phone 8. In a much less grandiose manner, Mozilla on Monday introduced its own…
By Brandon Russell |
Competition in the desktop browser space is fierce. But the big new frontier is in mobile. Android users have a glut of big-name options to choose from — Dolphin Browser HD, Chrome, Opera Mobile (and Mini) — the most recent of which is Firefox. Mozilla’s…
By Todd Haselton |
Mozilla announced on Tuesday that it has updated its Firefox for Android browser with a new user interface, performance tweaks and support for Flash. I typically use Chrome on my Android devices because it’s lightweight and super smooth, plus I like that it syncs up…
By Brandon Russell |
Firefox has long been a darling of the browser world, but the past twelve months has seen the Mozilla-made software lose its footing to Google’s Chrome in a big way. While the desktop battle wages on, the next frontier to conquer is certainly mobile, and…
By Killian Bell |
If there’s one thing the App Store isn’t short of, it’s third-party web browsers. If for any reason you’re not keen on mobile Safari, there are a ton of other solutions to choose from — many of which are really great. However, it is lacking…
By Killian Bell |
Australian retailer Kogan.com is charging customers an additional “tax” at 6.8% just for shopping with Internet Explorer 7. When visiting the site, those using Microsoft’s “antique” browser are presented with a message that explains they will be charged extra “to help make the Internet a…
By Todd Haselton |
Mozilla on Tuesday officially unveiled Firefox 13, the latest update to its popular web browser. Firefox 13 features a completely redesigned home page and a new tabbed browsing experience. “The Home Page now includes icons at the bottom of the page to give you easy…
By Mark Hearn |
Recently ponying up $1 billion to buy Instagram and finally going public, Facebook seems to have a lot going on. The latest rumor surrounding the apex social network is that it may be looking to get into the web browsing business. In addition to this…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has long remained the top Web browser on the market, but it seems its glory days are long gone. According to StatCounter, a digital analytics site, Google Chrome pulled in 31.88 percent of the world’s Web traffic last week, making it the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Mozilla has announced that it hopes to have a Metro-themed version of the Firefox browser ready for testing by the second quarter.…
By Adriana Lee |
Seems you either hate Internet Explorer 6 or… well, I don’t know anyone who actually loves it. Say what you will, though, this version of the Microsoft browser has been no slouch when it comes to longevity… until now, that is. It seems the 10-year-old…
By Emily Price |
Kindle Cloud Reader is now available for Firefox. The HTML5-based web app allows customers to read Kindle books in their web browsers. The service was already available for Chrome, Safari, and Safari on iPad, and can be downloaded here. Customer response to Kindle Cloud Reader…
By Adriana Lee |
With all the talk of smartphone and tablet wars, OS wars, PC/laptop wars, it’s easy to forget about one of the key technological battles: the Web browser wars. Latest casualty? Internet Explorer. Last month, its popularity hit its lowest level in more than 10 years,…
By Killian Bell |
If you haven’t already used the Google Chrome web browser, I highly recommend you try it out. It’s a fantastic web browser — so good, in fact, that it has now attracted over 200 million downloads. Google’s CEO Larry Page announced the news during an…
By Sean P. Aune |
The numbers for July of which Web browsers are winning the current browser wars shows a dark horse coming up on the outside that no one seems to be watching very closely. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how…
By Adriana Lee |
Having 40 bajillion tabs open when a browser suddenly crashes has got to be the second-most annoying thing about Web work. The number-one most annoying thing, though, is the blaring video, music or ad stream that inevitably comes up when you re-launch the program. I…
By Killian Bell |
I have a funny relationship with Apple’s Safari web browser. There are a number of reasons why I love it: I’ve used it for so long it’s more familiar than any other browser; it syncs my MobileMe bookmarks seamlessly; and it has some awesome new…
By Adriana Lee |
Still using Internet Explorer? Well, I’ve got to hand it to you: It takes guts in today’s tech climate. Looking around the webs, it seems the Microsoft browser doesn’t get a whole lot of love or respect. As if to punctuate the sentiment, results from…
