By Todd Haselton |
During the D: Dive Into Mobile conference Monday, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs took the stage for an interview with the editorial staff of AllThingsD. During the talk, Kovacs said that the company’s Firefox OS will launch in five countries in June of this year and in 11 additional…
By Brandon Russell |
Mozilla on Wednesday detailed a new mobile payment system coming to its Firefox OS through a brand new JavaScript API. The upcoming service will make it simple for merchants and customers to participate in transactions through the Web—credit cards and even monthly recurring plans apply.…
By Todd Haselton |
Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs just sent out a letter announcing that he will be stepping down as the chief executive of the company later this year. Kovacs joined the company three years ago in 2010 with two overarching goals: to increase the presence of Firefox…
By Ron Duwell |
Mozilla has announced that it and Samsung are teaming up to deliver a next-generation smartphone browser called “Servo.” The new browser will be written in a new programming language called “Rust,” which Mozilla has been working on for the past several years. The new browser…
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 Todd Haselton |
A phone running a mobile operating system by Mozilla? No, you’re not dreaming and the company’s efforts are finally coming to fruition. We had a chance to meet with Alcatel to check out an entry-level device that will launch in emerging markets, but it gave…
By Todd Haselton |
ZTE recently published a vague press release that suggests two things: the ZTE Grand Memo will officially be unveiled during Mobile World Congress, as well as something related to ZTE and its relationship with Mozilla. Our best guess? ZTE has a Firefox OS smartphone in…
By Todd Haselton |
Mozilla revealed its Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone on Tuesday. The new operating system is expected to launch sometime this year, and the first screen shots began to spill out last summer. The device itself, apparently dubbed ”Keon” for short, packs relatively light hardware, especially considering…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Emily Price |
Today Twitter and Mozilla announced Twitter for Firefox, a new version of the browser (or an add-on for existing Firefox users) that integrates Twitter search into the browser’s toolbar. I downloaded the browser this afternoon and gave it a test drive. Here’s a look at…
By Adriana Lee |
First the Flip video camera line, and now Flock? It seems the technosphere is doing some Spring cleaning, as the social browser has now become the latest innovation to land on the defunct pile. The notice that went out today, which stated that support will…
By Jack McGrath |
With the arrival of the fourth major installment of Mozilla’s industry-leading web browser, it comes as no surprise that Firefox is finally going to be available on smartphones around the world. Launching on Google’s Android platform alongside Nokia’s proprietary offering, Maemo, Firefox 4 takes the…
By Jack McGrath |
Much has been said lately about Microsoft’s newest version of Internet Explorer, but Mozilla is picking up the slack with the release of Firefox 4. Since both of the well-known companies have been losing customers to Apple and Google, it is no surprise that they…
By Sean P. Aune |
After a seemingly endless round of beta releases, Mozilla has officially launched its Firefox 4 browser. Not surprisingly, the non-profit company promises that Firefox 4 is the best version yet of its software, and it better be as the company is quickly losing some ground…
By Jack McGrath |
Previously known for being bloated, inefficient, dangerous, and non-compliant with well-established standards, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer began to lose hold of its dominance with the rise of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. Will Internet Explorer 9 draw consumers back to Microsoft’s browser for good? According…
By Sean P. Aune |
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has placed a “soft block” on the Skype toolbar in all versions of the program. It isn’t very often that you hear about Mozilla having to block anything from being used in the Firefox browser, but it does…
By Tom Moccia |
Privacy is a big concern amongst us today: What personal information is accessible, by who, when, where and how. It all seems pretty mysterious, almost like there’s a mythical information bank in every neighborhood where the “bad guys” can go, look around, and get your…
