Mozilla's redesigned Firefox for Android is nearly ready for prime time. We tested an early version to see what's changed in the new native Firefox for Android. The developers are transitioning away from XUL — the cross-platform user interface toolkit used by Firefox on the desktop — in favor of native widgets.
Mozilla wants to help stop the proliferation of “share this” badges currently cluttering the web. These days nearly every page you visit is plastered with dozens of icons offering to like, or tweet, or +1, or thumbs up, or otherwise tell your friends what you think of the page in question. The clutter can be
Opera software recently cranked out a new alpha version of its upcoming Opera 12 web browser. Opera 12 has been in development for a little while now and recently added full hardware acceleration for WebGL graphics. If you’d like to take Opera 12 for a spin, head on over to the Opera Next downloads page. Before you
Mozilla is thinking of ditching Firefox's familiar appearance on Android mobile devices and instead adopting Android's native look and feel. The change would mean a very different flavor of Firefox, but one that's faster, uses less memory and is more suited to the mobile world.
One of the headline features of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is a completely new Web browser called Silk that is designed with a “split” architecture, allowing it to offload much of the heavy lifting to Amazon’s cloud computing cluster for superior browsing performance. When the user requests a webpage in Silk, the request will be
Mozilla has released Firefox 7. Thanks to the faster release cycle, Firefox 7 comes just six weeks after Firefox 6 and brings some significant speed boosts that make it well worth the upgrade. If you'd like to take Firefox 7 for a spin, head over to the Mozilla downloads page. Current Firefox users will be automatically
Mozilla is considering two new proposals that will both speed up and slow down Firefox’s controversial new rapid-release development cycle. The first plan — to speed up Firefox development — would shorten the existing six-week Firefox development cycle to a five-week development cycle.
Mozilla has released Firefox for Tablets. The currently nightly build is still very rough around the edges, but it offers curious testers a working preview of what's to come.