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  • Firefox Home ‘coming soon’ to iPhone, will sync with desktop browser

    Firefox Home ‘coming soon’ to iPhone, will sync with desktop browser

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Continuous client functionality, you say? Sounds like Mozilla might be just what the doctor ordered. The company has announced that its upcoming Firefox Home app is coming soon to the iPhone. The program will sync up with your desktop client so that you can go mobile with all your browsing history, bookmarks and "the set of tabs from [your] most recent browser session" going along for the ride. Not only that, but there's an "Awesome Bar" -- Mozilla's words, not ours -- that'll let you search through everything and predict options based on the available data. While not a "full" Firefox browser, according to the blog post (with the addendum, "either technically or due to policy"), the pages still load from within the app itself. No solidified release date yet -- it's still being polished for app store submission, but Opera's luck give us hope for a smooth approval. In the meantime, you can get a quick preview in the video after the break.

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  • Use Internet Explorer, says Microsoft, but stop using IE6

    Use Internet Explorer, says Microsoft, but stop using IE6

    Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Why-you-dont-use-Internet-ExplorerSo Google got hacked, or something, by cyber criminals in China, and Microsoft has acknowledged that their Internet Explorer browser was part of the problem. Specifically, Interent Explorer version 6 was part of the problem, and Microsoft is quick to point out that version 8 is much better, and much more secure. Cliff Evans, Microsoft's Head of Security and Privacy in the UK, further states that switching away from Internet Explorer is also a bad idea. According to him, it's MSIE8 or nothing. Firefox? Chrome? Safari? Opera? None of those will keep you as safe from cyber attacks as Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 8.

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  • Is Sony trying to get Firefox ported to the PS3?

    Is Sony trying to get Firefox ported to the PS3?

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    So this is reasonably exciting. Some super secret source told PlayStation Insider that Sony has talked to Mozilla about porting Firefox to the PS3. Note the wording of that sentence: talks about porting Firefox. Needless to say, if this is even true, then we're at a very early stage of development.

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  • Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox!

    Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox!

    Posted on November 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Come back with me to the turn of the century, about 1996. Your humble narrator was working for campus police at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, creating FileMaker databases for their police reports. It wasn't uncommon then to see DOS machines sitting beside Windows 95 machines and the web was a primitive and strange thing. There were only two browsers of note, Netscape and Internet Explorer, and firing either up was neither comfortable or interesting. But, hidden deep behind Netscape's bland carapace, was Mozilla. When you typed "about:mozilla" in the Netscape address bar, for example, you got:

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  • Mozilla says people refusing to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 in order to hide their, well, sensitive bookmarks

    Mozilla says people refusing to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 in order to hide their, well, sensitive bookmarks

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 in June of 2008, but there's still a few of you out there who haven't upgraded, despite, if nothing else, the security improvements. So what gives? Mozilla asked the abstainers, essentially, “Why haven't you upgraded?” The answer, of course, has to do with Internet pornography. Doesn't it always?

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  • Let’s celebrate Firefox’s 1 billionth download!

    Let’s celebrate Firefox’s 1 billionth download!

    Posted on August 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Where were you when Firefox passed 1 billion downloads? It happened sometime yesterday, some five years after its first release, in 2004.

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