According to W3Counters, a free web tracker from Awio Web Services, all Firefox versions currently account for about 25% of global browser market share. The latest report, released on June 20, includes about 29 million unique visits to 4,817 sites using the free tracker. While these numbers differ significantly from XiTi’s global report, two facts

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David Bienvenu has announced that the ability to open messages in tabs has been added to Thunderbird in-development code. It’s pretty simple and useful, right-click in a message and select Open Message in New Tab. As you can see in the screenshot, the folders and messages lists are kept in a separate tab. It’s still

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Mozilla has confirmed that it will release the first update for Firefox 3.5 later this week to address a critical security vulnerability disclosed a couple of days ago that could lead to malicious code execution. The update will most likely also address a bug related to slow startups due to large Windows temporary^A folders being

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Mozilla has released another alpha of the next Firefox (either 3.7 as the nightlies name suggest, or 4.0 like most people expect), conservatively labeled Mozilla Developer Preview. On Windows at least, besides the new toolbar icons introduced in Alpha 3, there is now an option to place the tab bar above the navigation bar (right-click

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Mozilla Labs has released an alpha version of Account Manager, its latest project that takes on the problem of online authentication. So there is a problem? Actually several. First of all, the process of logging on and off a web site is usually different from site to site, and it so common that becomes annoying

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After making its appearance in the latest Firefox 3.5 RC 1 candidate builds, Mozilla has officially introduced the latest update to Firefox’s icon. Started several week ago, the design happened completely in the open through 14 iterations (released in small batches) so people were able to provide their feedback on what needed to be retouched.

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After about two years in the works, Pioneers of the Inevitable have released Songbird, a Mozilla-based music player, with which, POTI aims to do for music what Mozilla did with Firefox: provide an open source customizable multiplatform music player. On first sight, it doesn’t look much different than several other media players like iTunes. Like

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Firefox development lead, Mike Beltzner, has announced a slight change to the way Firefox opens new tabs, that will be featured in future releases. Currently, when you open a link in a new tab it is added to the end of the tab bar, and the relationship with its parent tab exists only in the

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Firefox 3 introduces support for web-based protocol handling so instead of a desktop application taking care of irc:, im:, ftp:, mailto: and other protocol link, these addresses are passed to a defined web service provided that it is capable of parsing and processing them. Firefox 3 ships with Yahoo! Mail and 30Boxes as bundled web

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In preparation for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, due around mid-November, the Firefox development team is furiously completing and landing important features to the code base. Today’s nightly features the long ago announced tab preview panel that replaces the All tabs list it used to feature in the far right side. As you can see it

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A common complaint about Firefox 3’s location bar is that the autocomplete menu is too long because of the big font sizes, that the page title grabs too much attention compared to the address or that the address is too difficult to read. While the default colors and sizes is still under review, you can

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The same day Firefox 3 was shipping, Tipping Point, a research organization for vulnerability analysis and discovery,^A  released an upcoming advisory (ZDI-CAN-349) about a new security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, affecting Firefox 2 and 3 in their Zero Day Initiative site. Following their own policies, Tipping Point has not

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The latest Opera 9.2, brought a new feature called Speed Dial which is basically a grid of your 9 favorite or more visited sites’ thumbnails presented instead of the blank page you get when you add a new tab. Speed Dial is a Firefox extension developed by Josep del Rio that brings the same functionality

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A vulnerability in how Firefox handles chrome: addresses, which are used to load specific Firefox and extensions’ interface elements like windows, buttons and dialogs, could allow a malicious site to access local files in known locations. The vulnerability affects extensions that are installed as a set of uncompressed files, as opposed to the more common

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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 RC2, the second release candidate of the next major Firefox upgrade. If you’ve been following Firefox 3.5 development you may realize there was no RC1 as expected. In fact, this is a new approach Mozilla is taking for this stage. As explained by Mike Beltzner, Firefox product director,^A basically, the

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As you may know, Firefox 4 will have the tab bar placed on top of the navigation bar by default, significantly changing the way it looks and, to some degree, behaves for long time Firefox users. As Alex Faaborg emphasizes in this video, this is all about the default layout. Reversing to tabs below the

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Recent Firefox 3 nightlies finally offer true full screen mode. In Firefox 2 (and previous Firefox 3 betas including beta 4) when you press F11 or select Full Screen from the View menu, Firefox expands to use all the screen but still shows the navigation and tab bars. To effectively use all available screen state

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Mozilla VP of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer, has confirmed that the final release of Firefox 3, currently in Beta 4 stage, is expected for June, a full quarter later than the latest estimate and some nine months past the original. According to Firefox 3 Beta 5 release schedule, it is being built as I write this

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Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg has posted yet another peek at Firefox 3 extensive visual refresh. This time he shares a partial collection of the different icon sets Firefox 3 will feature. As reported before, Firefox 3 will break with the restriction of keeping a very tight visual identity across all supported platforms and will instead aim

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Mozilla Labs released today Prism, a rebranded version of WebRunner, a Mozilla-based application for running single web applications. On the name change, Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg comments: most people aren’t going to semantically disambiguate terms the same way we do. For mainstream users, “running” means faster than jogging, and similarly “execution” involves killing people. The name

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