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Firefox starts reining in Flash, Silverlight, QuickTime

http://www.betanews.com

Starting today, an ambitious project from the Mozilla Foundation called "Lorentz" makes its first public, experimental debut, with the release of a public beta of Firefox 3.6.4.

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Firefox add-on disrupts Google data collection

http://www.computerworlduk.com

A computer security researcher has launched a project designed to provide people greater privacy when using Google, as the company expands the scope of data its collects about its users.

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High performance Theora codec for Firefox on OMAP3 previewed

http://www.h-online.com

A Mozilla developer has modified the Theora codec for greater efficiency with Texas Instruments' OMAP 3, a processor used in smartphones such as the Motorola Droid, Nokia N900 and Palm Pre

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Google will release VP8 video codec under an open source license

http://www.webmonkey.com

Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we've learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said.

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Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

http://www.tomshardware.com

The writing is on the wall. While Mozilla and its Firefox browser appear to be a very solid institution in the browser market, it is the weakest link with an extremely attractive portion of the browser user base as well. Could Mozilla be squeezed out of the market?

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Firefox 3.6.4 with out of process plugins

http://news.softpedia.com

Pressure from Google Chrome and, increasingly, from other main players in the web-browser market is forcing Mozilla to change its ways. Most notably, it's starting to rethink its update schedule and system for Firefox and favoring small incremental updates, a la Chrome, instead of major releases months or years apart.

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Microsoft’s Ally Fortify Software Attacks Free Software Again

http://boycottnovell.com

Fortify's latest cheap shot at Firefox is very weak and difficult to justify (Fortify is very close to Microsoft)

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Firefox plans fix for decade-old browsing history leak

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Firefox developers say they're close to plugging an information leakage hole that has plagued every major browser for more than a decade.

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Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Pre

http://www.inatux.com

"Apart from many performance improvements and an official 64bit version, "Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Pre" doesn't have many new features that 3.6 doesn't already have." ... "Another new thing we noticed is the ability to resize text boxes (textarea tags.) The video below shows the feature being used on the InaTux.com forms..."

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Internet Explorer 9 vs Firefox 3.7 : Open beats Closed

http://blog.internetnews.com

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 is now out for developers to try out and test -- well kinda/sorta. You see the IE9 Test Drive Platform Preview isn't really a browser is it?

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Mozilla announces Firefox Mobile add-on challenge

https://developer.mozilla.org

The Mozilla Foundation has launched a new Firefox Mobile competition for add-on developers aimed at encouraging them to create innovative and compatible mobile add-ons

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Firefox 3.0 approaches end-of-life

http://www.h-online.com

Mozilla has confirmed that version 3.0 of its popular open source Firefox web browser is approaching its end-of-life (EOL). According to the Mozilla developer's weekly meeting notes, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x following the release of version 3.0.19, the last security and stability update to the 3.0.x branch.

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Mozilla releases second Firefox 4.0 preview

https://developer.mozilla.org

New developer preview release of "3.7 alpha" includes out-of-process plug-in support on Windows and Linux for more reliable browsing

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Ubuntuzilla - An APT repository to get the latest updates for Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird

http://www.unixmen.com

Ubuntuzilla is an APT repository hosting the Mozilla builds of the latest official releases of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. This repository should also work on Linux distributions that are derivatives of Ubuntu, and probably also on any Debian derivative.

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Created by linuxadmiral 12 years 12 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 12 weeks ago
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How to install Firefox 3.6 stable version from ubuntu ppa (Not the Namoroka One)

http://www.aroundtheweb.info

Simple commands to install firefox 3.6 from official ppa and not the Namoroka.

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