Category: Firefox
Firefox Mobile vs. Opera Mobile
You might think that it’s too early to write topics like “Firefox Mobile vs. Opera Mobile” (but it’s not), I bet there would be pretty much of them really soon.
We don’t have many details about Firefox Mobile, however, I think that Opera’s Mobile team should be worried already, not because of the features but because Firefox Mobile will be free open-source mobile web browser while Opera Mobile isn’t free or either an open source product.
Lets’ check finances. Opera Mobile makes good money for the Opera Software. How will it affect Opera’s earnings after Firefox Mobile release? No one knows yet.
Opera Software already made a mistake once; Opera was a paid browser some time ago, later they have decided to make it free, “bit too late” I would say. As a result, Opera’s market share is still very low; some still thinks that Opera is a paid browser. What about Opera Mobile? Will they make it free as Firefox Mobile is coming? Or will they wait till Firefox Mobile is being released so could see if it’s a “real” competitor or not? Let’s sit and wait.
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It’s Official! Firefox Mobile
Are you excited? It’s just been announced. There were a plenty of rumors regarding Firefox Mobile and now it’s official. Mozilla are developing Firefox for mobile phone which should be released till the end of this year. Like original Firefox it will be open-source software and that means a lot to developers and users as well. As for now there are still not many details known, Firefox Mobile will be able to run Firefox extensions on the mobile phone and the fact that many people already joined Mozilla in order to help build the best mobile web browser.
Should Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, iPhone Web Browser and Microsoft Deepfish developers be worried already?
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Firefox 2.0.0.8 Soon To Come
Firefox 2.0.0.8 should be released within a week but might be delayed a bit as well. As schedule says:
Firefox 2.0.0.8 should be yet another great release by Firefox team. We are waiting…
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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 05 Released
Yet another day and yet another Firefox 3 build from its developers team. While it’s still really long time to go, it’s good to see that with every day they Firefox 3 becomes more and more “polished”. Latest build changelog:
Fixed:
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
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Extend Firefox 2 Add-Ons Contest
Are you ready to win some great prizes? What you will need to do? What are those great prizes? Everything is really simple; you will have to develop an add-on for Firefox 2 web browser. Anything else? No, that’s all! Just an add-on and you might get one of the great prizes.
Three Grand Prize winners will each receive an Ultimate Firefox Developer Kit, including:
Twelve Runner-Up Prize winners will each receive a Firefox Pack, including:
All qualified entrants will receive, while supplies last, a Limited Edition Extend Firefox T-Shirt.
This edition of the Extend Firefox contest will run until 11:59pm pacific time on December 31st, 2007. Winners will be announcement on about January 15th, 2007.
See more details here. Are you ready to win?
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2007 September Browsers Market Share Results
It’s time for yet another post about web browsers market share. You may check August results here.
It’s the second month since Internet Explorer is losing its market share. This time it felt from 78.68% to 77.86% (0.82% decrease).
What about Firefox? Good news for Firefox fans, this web browser managed to increase its market share from 14.56% to 14.88% (0.32% increase). Maybe will reach 15% soon. Who knows…
Safari is doing very well. Actually it managed to increase its market share from 4.68% to 5.07% (0.39% increase) and reached 5% of the market share. Congratulations.
Opera continues to lose its market share since July, even Opera 9.5 Alpha release haven’t increased it’s market share. This time it felt yet another 0.01%, from 0.88% to 0.87% (0.01% decrease).
Netscape slightly increased its market share after the previous 0.04% drop. From 0.71% to 0.72% (0.01% increase).
While Opera doing not so well, Opera Mini as always continues to increase its market share from 0.27% to 0.39% (0.12% increase).
That’s all.
Here’s a graph of current browsers market share. Thanks to HitsLink.
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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 09 28 Released
Yet another great Firefox 3 build from Firefox team. This is not a final version; use it on your own risk. They’ve fixed lots of bugs in the past week and recently released one more Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 09 28 nightly build. And here’s the changelog for the last nightly build.
Fixed:
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
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ZoneAlarm ForceField Beta Released
ZoneAlarm Forcefield beta has just been released for Windows XP and Windows Vista. It should be working with Internet Explorer 6-7 and Firefox 1.x-2.x versions. So what is it all about? It can protect you from various “bad things”. And as they say: “Protect yourself by creating a virtual “You” on any PC…”
ForceField lets you connect and communicate the way you already do online, only with a combination of protective measures that makes you impervious. It uses a virtualization engine that shields your computer and personal data from Internet and computer-based threats. It also includes numerous protection layers to combat phishing, spyware and dangerous file downloads.
Isn’t that a good idea?
It’s a Beta only, still many issues needs to be fixed. However, feel free to try it if you are interested.
Known issues:
Download ForceField 1.0.158 Beta.
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Firefox 3 Alpha 8 Released
It’s finally here. Firefox 3 Alpha 8, and not a “Pre-Alpha” version. This version fixes tons of bugs and introduces some new features, check this changelog for more details:
Download Firefox 3 Alpha 8 for Windows
Download Firefox 3 Alpha 8 for Mac OS X
Download Firefox 3 Alpha 8 for Linux/GTK2
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