Firefox 3.0.11 welcomes 150 million users
Within twenty four hours from being released, the Firefox 3.0.11 browser it was downloaded a massive one hundred and fifty million times.
The significance of this follows the announcement from Apple who reported that after three days from release its new Safari browser was downloaded eleven million times.
These figures have probably been topped up with [...]
Microsoft installs a Firefox extension
The software giant slipped in a security update on millions of computers, this is an add on for the millions of users who have chosen Mozilla’s Firefox as their browser.
A lot of users will not be too pleased about this additional add on, and therefore will no doubt head over to the add on’s interface [...]
Chrome begins to fade
It seems that the initial surge of users switching to the new Chrome browser from Google could be fading as the latest figures suggest that many of those users who tried out the browser have actually returned to using the old favourite Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
It was to be expected anyhow, after all Chrome is still [...]
Mozilla makes an update
The Mozilla Corporation released a second update for their new browser Firefox 3, they have creatively named this update, Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, code-named “Shiretoko,” which has added support for video and hopefully increased for some JavaScript applications.
It is said to be the last update for the Firefox 3 browser for some time, that is [...]
The best free email account
Every computer user has their own opinions of the email free accounts that they use, but has there ever been an evaluation of them?
Well there has now and although this not the definitive test, it seems that Google’s Gmail has come out on top for the following reasons:
Gmail spam filters block 99% of the spam
Keep [...]
Mozilla gets world record certificate
The people behind Mozilla were in London to meet up with the official from the Guinness Book of World Records.
Tristan Nitot the President of Mozilla Europe was on hand to receive the certificate from the records manager of internet and technology at the Guinness Book of Records, Gareth Deaves.
On the certificate was written exactly [...]
Security flaws hit Firefox 3
At the time of writing there have been over fourteen million downloads of the new Firefox 3 which it has to be assumed most users have been happy with, but within hours of the now famous world record being achieved by Mozilla there are already some security issues.
But as this issue has not been resolved [...]
Acer turns to Linux
As with other makers of computers, Acer are turning to Linux as an alternative to Windows based operating systems, they have been promoting Linux in their low cost range, but they are now going to push this out on the Acer range of laptops too.
The brand of Linux that they are planning to use has [...]
Speed help on Firefox
Anyone new to Firefox could be forgiven for not knowing about any of the super fast tools that they give you. These tools are there to make life easier and of course faster.
But these tools have designed to make working on the internet a simpler and faster way of working which will once these tools [...]
Firefox 3 outperforms competition
Much has been written about Firefox and the recent release of the third version, normally you would expect the memory use to increase, but it would seem that the in the case of Firefox 3 this may not be the case in fact during tests the memory usage has actually fallen, which has to be [...]