Category: Firefox
November, 2011: Google Chrome Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera – Down
With just one month left before the end of 2011, it’s time to check the latest stats for the browsers market share.
Falling below 50% last time, Internet Explorer is now down from 49.58% to 48.95% (0.63 point decrease).
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Backup Your Browser Data: FavBackup 2.1.2 Released
Good news, we have just released a new version of FavBackup for you to play with. No major changes, just additional web browser versions support.
Changelog
– Added Google Chrome 16 Support
– Added Firefox 7 and Firefox 8 Support
– Added Opera 11.60 Support
Avant Browser To Use 4 Rendering Engines
It looks like web browsers with dual or triple rendering engines are becoming more and more popular (thanks to Maxthon and Lunascape).
Earlier this month, the Avant team has a released a dual engine web browser, which as it turns out, wasn’t good enough.
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Download Firefox 8.0.1
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 8.0.1. What this minor release does is fix a couple of bugs, nothing major, hence why it’s a minor update.
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Mozilla Progresses On Silent Updates
Mozilla is making progress on adding a silent update mechanism to Firefox, with plans to integrate the new service in Firefox 10 early next year. One of the developers working on the feature cautioned that silent update might slip, however.
At this point, we’re not quite sure which version of Firefox this will land in…We’re working to land it as soon as is safely possible. – Ehsan Akhgari, a Firefox engineer in charge of one of the silent update components, said in a blog post last weekend.
Mozilla Gets Serious About Firefox Memory Leaks
Blames add-ons for the majority of its problems.
Continuing its efforts to reduce Firefox memory leaks, Mozilla’s Justin Lebar has proposed a new approach, which should eliminate at least some of the issues with various add-ons.
Here is how it would work:
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Firefox 11 And Firefox 12 Features, Release Date
What’s new and what to expect?
As people are getting used to the faster Mozilla Firefox release cycles, we have some news about the Firefox 11 and potentially Firefox 12 web browsers.
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Download Firefox 10 Alpha 2
It looks like it’s been a busy week for Mozilla as it has just released the Alpha 2 version of Firefox 10.
Although it’s yet to include some of the anticipated features, such as: redesigned user interface and automatic bookmark import from Google Chrome web browser, Firefox 10 has implemented Anti-Aliasing for WebGL and few other goodies.
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Download Firefox 9 Beta
Even though the Final build of Firefox 8 web browser was released just little than a week ago, Mozilla has already began working on future versions and has now released the Firefox 9 Beta.
So what’s new?
There are couple of changes, the most significant being a newly added Type Interface, which drastically improves JavaScript performance.
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Firefox HTML5 PDF Reader Pictured
Back in the June, we’ve posted an article detailing the possibility of the built in PDF Reader in the Firefox web browser.
How is it different from any of its competitors? It uses HTML5 to render the documents.
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