Looks like Firefox has some nice (and let’s hope lightweight) dev tools releasing soon.
Despite Mozilla kicking its release schedule into overdrive, not all parts of Firefox have gotten the tender love and care they truly deserve. Take for example, the browser's default homepage, which hasn't evolved much since its humble beginnings nearly a decade ago.
Firefox is a web browser with some very strong roots. Its history dates back to when Netscape was battling for users against the almighty Internet Explorer. Back in those days, web sites actually had small banners on them stating which browser the site was best rendered in.
Mozilla has served up the Aurora version of Firefox 11, in keeping with its switch to a rapid release cycle for the browser, instituted in February of last year. You can get a hold of it here, and it introduces a number of significant changes and improvements.
The browser story in December mirrored the broader 2011 trends. After a surprising result in November, in which it held steady, Internet Explorer resumed normal service in December, with its market share continuing to fall.
We had recently reported about search giant Google’s deal with the Mozilla foundation that extended the reign of Google search remaining the default search provider on Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Since the past few years, even before Google launched its Chrome brow …
Mozilla has released new Firefox versions for all channels in the past days. We have seen the release of Firefox 9 stable, shortly followed by the 9.0.1 release fix, Firefox 10 Beta, Firefox 11 Aurora and Firefox 12 Nightly. Firefox 11 Stable will be released in 3 months.
Mozilla fixes six vulnerabilities in Firefox 9, the latest version of its popular Web browser. Two of patches address issues with HTML5.
In a deal that ends concerns that Mozilla would lose its primary source of revenue, Mozilla and Google have signed a new agreement that will lock in Google's role as Firefox's default search engine for at least three more years.
Ahead of an official release tomorrow, Firefox 9 has winged its way to various mirrors across the web and is now available to download from the official Firefox website — no messing around with a hammered Nightly FTP server this time, oh no!
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