Tag Archives: Firefox

Mozilla – Bing Deal: Bing To Be Added As Available Search Engine In Firefox

According to a latest rumor, Mozilla and Bing may announce an agreement to add Bing as an available search engine in Firefox. Although, Google will remain the default search engine. Continue reading

Firefox Restartless Add-ons Appear In AMO

A great news for the users who hate restarting Firefox after installing (or uninstalling) add-ons to apply changes: Restartless Add-ons are now available in Add-on gallery. The restartless feature is only for the users of Firefox 4 (currently in beta). Continue reading

Firefox Home For Blackberry and Symbian Platforms Coming Soon!

Mozilla developers are planning to bring Firefox Home to Blackberry and Symbian platforms. Firefox Home is a a free cloud-based tool for syncing Firefox’s history, bookmarks and tabs currently available for iPhone. Continue reading

Fennec’s Version Number Jumps, Renamed As “Firefox 4.0 for Android & Maemo”

Mozilla has announced an important update about the version number of the upcoming beta release of Firefox for Mobile (Fennec). The next release, Fennec 2.0b1, will be marked as “Firefox 4.0b1 for Android & Maemo” and the final product will be released as “Firefox 4.0 for Android & Maemo”. Continue reading

Add-on Performance Advisor in Internet Explorer 9

The newer beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer provides users detailed information about add-ons affecting their browsing experience. The IE 9 alerts and suggests uses to disable slow add-ons. Continue reading

Kraken – A New Browser Benchmark From Mozilla

Mozilla has announced a new JavaScript benchmark, which will focus on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. This new browser benchmark, Kraken, is better in terms of reflecting realistic workloads for pushing the edge of browser performance forward, says Mozilla developer Rob Sayre. Continue reading

Restore Previous Session At Any Point After Start-up, Firefox 4 To Get A New Feature

Firefox 4 will have another exciting and useful feature: Users will be able to restore previous session at any point after start up. Firefox 4 will have an entry in the History menu to restore previous session, which can be used at any point to load previous session. Continue reading

Mozilla Planning For Firefox Add-on Marketplace

Mozilla, the organization behind web browser Firefox, is exploring the possibilities of add-on marketplace. This marketplace will help add-on developers to showcase and sell their add-ons. Continue reading

Mozilla’s New JavaScript Engine, JägerMonkey, Makes Firefox Four Times Faster!

Mozilla developers are working on a new JavaScript optimizer for Firefox based browsers. This new JIT compiler, JägerMonkey, is now available for the testing and will be integrated to Firefox soon to replace current optimizer, TraceMonkey. Continue reading

Hardware Acceleration And HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in Firefox 4

Mozilla today released another beta version of Firefox. This release, Firefox 4 beta 5 has the Direct2D acceleration activated by default for Windows Vista/7. This Hardware acceleration feature makes page-drawing operations faster. Continue reading