05/18/2012, Many websites collect information about visitors through cookies. Some of them include prominent sites such as Facebook. The collected data can be used for advertising and can even be sold to other companies looking to fill up their database with potential consumers. Now however, it seems that micro-blogging site Twitter, is looking to make a difference in that area. On Thursday, the company made an announcement it was working with […]

04/30/2012, Mozilla recently made some changes in Firefox 13 beta. Among the changes that we love in the first major update includes the much-awaited new tab page. Adding to the thrill are a couple of features found in Firefox Aurora 14 that indicates Firefox 14 might be as big as Firefox 13. One is that Aurora 14 features a native full screen support in Mac OS X Lion. Another noteworthy feature […]

08/25/2011, Remember our earlier story where we talked about Mozilla mulling over whether to hide Firefox version numbers? Well, to put it in a nutshell, plenty has been discussed to and fro, and in the end, Mozilla decided that it would be better to leave its Firefox version numbers as they were before. Guess those of you who thought you might miss the old ‘About Firefox’ window will be able to […]

04/11/2011, Mozilla intends to roll out Firefox 5 when June 21st rolls around – that leaves the opens ource software outfit just slightly more than 2 months to get everythign right, at least according to a developer road map. We do know that Firefox 5 will be receiving social media, UI and tab upgrades, where it will arrive as a beta next month while entering its final release stage around five […]

01/24/2011, Mozilla, the name behind the Firefox browser, is currently working on a new feature which will allow users of their browser to opt-out of online behavioral advertising. The whole idea behind this? To offer users “a deeper understanding of and control over personal information online,” at least according to Mozilla’s head of privacy. To put it in layman’s terms, this will let you configure your Firefox browser, having it inform […]

12/28/2010, Man the battle stations and change your passwords! A database holding 44,000 usernames and password hashes that are associated with accounts registered on the Mozilla add-ons website made public by accident, according to Mozilla. This partial database was exposed on a Mozilla public server by accident, and this would have enabled anyone to access the account usernames and the password hashes. According to Mozilla though, nobody did just that, save […]

08/11/2010, Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 3 is now available for all platforms, with focus on Windows 7 users as the primary aim since it will be able to take advantage of multi-touch input capability which is available on Microsoft’s operating system. Web developers are now capable of writing code made ideal for touchscreen interfaces instead of just assuming one relies on the mouse to get things done o the screen. All […]

06/29/2010, Mozilla went about quietly releasing their Firefox 4 candidate build, where it looked pretty solid when running, without causing any surprises to those who were using Firefox 3.7 before this. There are no detailed release notes available as at press time, although there doesn’t seem to have any major changes from Firefox 3.7a6-pre save for a smoother execution with less occurences of crashes. Currently, some of the main issues which […]

03/19/2010, The folks over at Opera must be smiling from ear to ear after Microsoft was forced to introduce the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen in Europe. The Web Browser Choice Screen prompts users if they want to download competing browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera etc. Now Opera is reporting that the number of downloads has more than doubled across the European continent, with some countries even […]