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Mozilla designer says Google Chrome uses speed tricks

http://news.techworld.com

An interface designer interning at Mozilla has suggested that the company mimic gimmicks in Google's Chrome to make users think Firefox starts up faster.

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HTTPS Extension Adds Default SSL Browsing to Firefox

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com

The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have released HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox extension that activates SSL/TSL encryption on sites that support the security setting, but don't feature it as a default when visiting because of partial support, unsecured trackback links or other issues. To alleviate this problem, HTTPS Everywhere writes all requests in HTTPS.

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Microsoft sneaks Firefox extension into Windows update

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This week’s installment of the regular Windows Update pack seems to have included more than Microsoft has disclosed to consumers. On Tuesday, Firefox users began reporting on the mozillaZine forums that a “Search Helper Extension” had been mysteriously added to their browser upon restarting the application after the Windows Update installation.

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Introducing GNUzilla and IceCat

http://www.gnu.org

GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons.

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Mozilla opens up more on Firefox 4: Content Security, WebGL coming

http://www.betanews.com

A newly published Mozilla developers' page characterizes Firefox 4 -- whose first public betas may be only a few weeks away -- as feature-laden.

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Firefox 4: An early walk-through of IndexedDB

http://hacks.mozilla.org

Web developers already have localStorage, which is used for client side storage of simple key-value pairs. This alone doesn’t address the needs of many web applications for structured storage and indexed data. Mozilla is working on a structured storage API with indexing support called IndexedDB, and we will have some test builds in the next few weeks.

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Mozilla prepares coders for Firefox 4 features

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It was with delight that I read these words on Thursday: "The proposed IndexedDB standard, which provides a local database store for Web applications, will be supported by Firefox 4."

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Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So

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Will Firefox have double-digit market share in 3 to 5 years? Straightforward enough. Yes, says (outgoing) Mozilla CEO John Lilly. No, says Firefox co-founder Blake Ross.

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A hungrier, more aggressive Mozilla

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Mozilla's Firefox was born during a time when Microsoft's Internet Explorer had grown so fat and lazy that hacking off a massive chunk of its market share was almost a moral duty, one with a built-in fan club. "Anything but IE" was the mantra.

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Firefox 4: fast, powerful, and empowering

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Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I invited everyone to get involved by joining our engineering or product development efforts.

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Online video wars

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Apple and Microsoft join to fight Opera and Firefox. The next big evolution of the Internet will be in the realm of video playing. Until now the rapid growth of online video has been built on Adobe's Flash technology. Flash has always been a workable solution but not the best platform because it requires an additional plugin to be installed before users can view video.

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Firefox and the open web

http://www.h-online.com

Firefox, the internet browser, is the most popular and widely used free software application, boasting more than a billion downloads and more than 350 million users. Richard Hillesley discussed the story of its development with Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation

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Firefox gets a sexy new addons manager

http://www.downloadsquad.com

Mozilla continues to plug away at Firefox.next, and one area they've been working at is the add-on system.

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Firefox to gain Account Manager

http://mozillalabs.com

Mozilla has announced that its new Account Manager feature has graduated from being a Mozilla Labs project and that it will be included in a future release of its open source Firefox web browser

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Firefox 3.7a5pre: Tabs on Top, New Add-on Manager

http://www.inatux.com

"Firefox 3.7a5pre now has an option to place the browser's tabs on top of the controls, similar to Google Chrome. This is likely part of Mozilla's plans to redesign Firefox for version 4." ... "Firefox 3.7a5pre handles the Add-ons window differently, as it opens in a new tab rather than a new window.

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