firefox

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Mozilla retrenching 60 workers

    Mozilla retrenching 60 workers Mozilla Corp., the maker of web browser Firefox, is cutting about 60 jobs as part of a shake-up under a new chief executive officer. Mozilla said that the move affects about 5% of its workforce and that the cuts were primarily in the product development...
  2. Jan

    Firefox adds support for Chrome extensions

    Firefox now lets users import Chrome extensions Mozilla has added the ability for Firefox users to import extensions from Google Chrome through the WebExtensions system, Ghacks reports. Firefox is the first major browser to allow the importing of extensions from other browsers.
  3. Jan

    Microsoft fixes ancient Windows Defender bug that caused CPU spikes when using Firefox

    Microsoft fixes 5-year-old bug that caused Firefox to munch CPUs Microsoft has fixed a five-year-old bug in Windows Defender that caused significant CPU usage spikes for users of the Mozilla Firefox browser, Neowin reports. Firefox developer Yannis Juglaret confirmed that Microsoft rolled out...
  4. Jan

    Firefox offline machine translation tool launched

    Firefox launches offline translation tool Mozilla has announced the launch of Firefox Translations, an offline machine translation tool for the Firefox web browser. “To empower the community to contribute with new languages, we also developed a comprehensive training pipeline to allow...
  5. gregmcc

    Ubuntu 22.04 - Firefox only available via snap

    Noooo....why?!?! :mad: Just upgraded from LTS 20.04 to 22.04 beta - it's close enough to release date so I thought I'd try it out. Found out Canonical and Mozilla have some deal now that Firefox is no longer available as a .deb file and can only be installed using snap. Actually installing...
  6. Jan

    Chrome, Firefox, and Edge will soon hit version 100 - User-Agent parsers expected to break

    Chrome, Firefox, and Edge version 100 problem — expect sites to break Three commonly-used internet browsers are nearing their 100th versions, and Engadget reported that the triple-digit release numbers in the browsers' User-Agents (UA) could cause problems with several websites. The browsers...
  7. Jan

    Mozilla experimenting with replacing Google with Bing as the default search engine in Firefox

    Bing could replace Google as Firefox's default search engine Mozilla is experimenting with replacing Google Search as the default search engine on its Firefox browser with Microsoft's Bing service. This is according to a report from German web developer Sören Hentzschel, who closely tracks...
  8. J

    Critical security flaw in Firefox - Update now

    Critical security flaw in Firefox - Update now Mozilla has released security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in its browser software. The company said it was aware of targeted attacks which actively exploit this security flaw to take control of vulnerable systems.
  9. mercurial

    Vega Stealer Malware Takes Aim at Chrome, Firefox

    Vega Stealer Malware Takes Aim at Chrome, Firefox
  10. mercurial

    Rogue extensions that hijack Chrome & Firefox are near impossible to remove

    Rogue extensions that hijack Chrome & Firefox are near impossible to remove
  11. mercurial

    Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager

    New research shows an alarming new way to track web users Source
  12. Newsfeed

    Firefox testing voice search

    Firefox testing voice search Firefox has launched three new Test Pilot experiments – voice search, note taking, and a file-sender tool.
  13. J

    Firefox Focus browser for Android hits a million downloads

    Firefox Focus browser for Android hits a million downloads The Firefox Focus browser for Android has been downloaded more than a million times in the month since its launch.
  14. Kevin Lancaster

    Firefox 54 brings massive performance improvements

    Firefox 54 brings massive performance improvements Mozilla has launched the latest version of its Firefox browser, which adds support for multiple processes.
  15. Sirius

    New vulnerability in the Chrome, Firefox and Opera web browsers?

    Sounds serious. :wtf::wtf: http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html
  16. O

    Windows 10 Home Edition keep freezing

    Hi I bought hp i3 from game last year. it came with Windows 10 Home Edition but lately I can't work on Microsoft office and open multiple tabs in either edge, chrome or firefox. It will freeze and slow down my work. What must I do? Everything is up to date. Even did AVG performance thing...
  17. Kevin Lancaster

    New Firefox supports WebAssembly

    New Firefox supports WebAssembly The latest release of Firefox is the first browser to support WebAssembly, which allows apps to run faster in a web browser.
  18. Kevin Lancaster

    Firefox Focus launched – the private browser for iPhone

    Firefox Focus launched – the private browser for iPhone Mozilla has launched a private browser for iOS called Firefox Focus.
  19. Kevin Lancaster

    Firefox 50 now available

    Firefox 50 now available Mozilla has released Firefox 50 for Desktop and Android, which includes improvements and enhancements.
  20. Kevin Lancaster

    Firefox Reader Mode can read articles to you

    Firefox Reader Mode can read articles to you The latest Firefox update improves its Reader Mode, which can now narrate articles to you.
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