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Mozilla ends surfing behavior based ‘Suggested Tiles’ advertisements
Mozilla has announced it will no longer show advertisements on the Firefox Tiles page, a feature the browser developer introduced several months ago. The company planned to show advertisements as...
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Firefox OS doomed – Mozilla has almost pulled the plug on alternative mobile OS
Mozilla will no longer sell devices running the Firefox OS, it’s alternative operating system for mobile devices. The development of the OS continues but no more phones with Firefox OS will be sold....
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Mozilla finally releases 64-bit Firefox, fixes 21 vulnerabilities in Firefox 43
After a long beta phase, Mozilla today finally released the 64-bit version of its Firefox browser for Windows. At the same time the developer also released 21 patches for vulnerabilities in the...
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Mozilla toughens Firefox security with W^X feature, at cost of browser...
Mozilla is working on a feature called W^X which should help in toughening the security of its Firefox browser. The browser developer has added W^X, which stands for ‘Write XOR Execute’, to an early...
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Mozilla enables unsafe encryption algorithm again to resolve issues with...
A new version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser solves an issue that made the antivirus software of G Data crash. A component of the antivirus software that should protect users against malware during...
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Mozilla moves away from releasing a new Firefox version every 6 weeks
Mozilla will change its current update cycle where it releases a new version of Firefox every six weeks. Instead the browser developer will take some additional time to finish a new release. The...
View ArticleErratic YouTube HTML5 video in Firefox and workarounds
Over the past while, Firefox has an issue with HTML5 video playback on YouTube that affects some computers where sections of video appears with frames played out of sequence, resulting in erratic...
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Firefox finally gets sandboxing again to improve security, stability and...
Mozilla has decided to add sandbox technology to Firefox again. This should improve security, stability and performance of the browser. Firefox is currently the only large browser that doesn’t feature...
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Chrome and Firefox block KickAssTorrents for alledged phising
Both Chrome and Firefox currently block the popular illegal torrent site KickAssTorrents. The website is marked as deceptive and according to the warning ‘attackers on kat.cr may trick you into doing...
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Mozilla patches 4 critical vulnerabilities with the release of Firefox 46
Mozilla today released Firefox 46 which fixes 14 vulnerabilities of which 4 have been marked critical. Some of the critical vulnerabilities showed evidence of memory corruption which according to...
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Mozilla releases Firefox 47 with performance monitor and more HTML5 video...
The latest version of Mozilla’s browser, Firefox 47, comes with additional HTML5 video support and new developer features. Mozilla today released the stable version of version 47 of its browser which...
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Firefox gets container feature to separate between personal, work, banking...
Mozilla’s Firefox browser will get a new feature that makes it possible to open separate tabs for work, personal, internet banking and online shopping. The feature is called ‘Containers’ and makes it...
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Mozilla invests in German privacy protecting browser and search engine...
Mozilla today announced it has invested in the company that develops the privacy browser Cliqz. Currently Cliqz is mainly targeted at Germany and Mozilla should help expand it to other countries. Both...
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Mozilla remotely disabled add-on that sent browsing history to third party...
Mozilla has blocked older versions of the Stop Ads adblock add-on because it sent the entire browsing history of its users to a third party. The browser developer is able to remotely block malicious...
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Firefox and Chrome can shorten SSD lifetime
Firefox and Chrome have been found to continuously write so much data that it might affect the durability of SSDs. Both browsers write an incredible amount of data to disk, even when idle. This was...
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Firefox 53 marks the end of support for Windows XP and Vista
Windows XP and Windows Vista will no longer be supported starting with Firefox 53, scheduled for March 2017. After that date none of the popular browsers provide an up-to-date browser for both outdated...
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Microsoft’s browser market share is fading away
Microsoft’s browsers Internet Explorer and Edge continue to decline in popularity, Edge can’t even make up for the number of users that stop using Internet Explorer. The latest numbers of market...
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Microsoft makes it Update Catalog finally work with Firefox and Chrome
Chrome and Firefox users can now also access the Microsoft Update Catalog to download software updates from the software giant. Previously the website could only be used by Internet Explorer as support...
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Firefox update prevents websites from accessing your browsing history
Mozilla today released a security update for Firefox that fixes two vulnerabilities, one made the browser crash and the other allowed websites to retrieve the browsing history of users. A developer...
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Mozilla announces new Quantum engine that will better utilize modern CPUs and...
Mozilla plans to release a new web engine for its Firefox browser next year that should load websites superfast and should provide an improved user experience. The new engine is called Quantum and the...
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