A new Mozilla Firefox Beta for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available to download and test.
The new desktop web browser includes an enhanced JavaScript engine for web apps and games and adds support for W3C Touch Events and Retina Display for Mac users.
Dubbed as IonMonkey, the new JavaScript JIT compiler improves JavaScript processes and thus Firefox 18 Beta performs faster with web apps, games and other JavaScript-heavy pages.
Firefox 18 Beta supports standard W3C touch events on top of …

Just one day after it was released, Mozilla took down its latest version of Firefox after it was detected to have a security weakness.
Firefox 16 was discovered to allow “a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited,” according to Mozilla.
As such, users were prompted to downgrade their Firefox version 16 to the earlier release, which was safer.  Those who got the version automatically were advised to downgrade as well.

Mozilla Firefox’s latest version …

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox prepare important updates that will attract more clients and users.
Google prepares the “Do Not Track” option for Chrome
Google seems to understand the desire of many users of the browser of not being tracked online in order to be provided targeted advertising: Google Chrome includes new build-in option called “Do Not Track”.
Currently, the option included in more and more browsers are in tests at the Chromium developer channel, but will …

Mozilla has announced that seven telecoms carriers, which include U.S.-based Sprint, will be the first mobile operators to support the organization’s mobile OS based on HTML5.
According to a post on InformationWeek, “Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telenor are supporting Mozilla’s Firefox OS, though the extent of that support remains unclear. Mozilla has lined up endorsements from executives at its new carrier partners, but those …

Get Ready For A Hot New Firefox in 2012

New, improved versions of even the best products and systems are pretty commonplace, but not when it comes to a browser designed precisely to make your social networking tasks slicker—and more fun.
The Mozilla Foundation announced over the weekend that it is on the verge of a breakthrough in integrating social networking directly into its latest Firefox browser versions, including even newer models planned for later in 2012. The Firefox roadmap …

Management of Mozilla has announced its intention to discontinue support for some older versions of the Windows operating system in its web browser Firefox, beginning from the thirteenth version, which is due for release in mid June this year.
Most often, developers, by contrast, tend to support the largest possible number of operating systems, in order to retain the maximum number of users, but it does not always work – many of today’s browsers use the functionality that is not …

Mozilla, the software developer behind Firefox and Thunderbird, has Mozilla has brought out RescueFox, a prototype game for its 3D game engine, Gladius.

Screenshot of RescueFox (Image: Mozilla Labs)

The RescueFox prototype plays up all glitches found in the Firefox Gecko rendering engine, Gladius, and even Google Chrome.
RescueFox is a basic castoff mock-up, which, in other words, will be disposed of once it has served its purpose and Mozilla no longer finds a future use for it.
Mozilla …

Mozilla Firefox developers have considered blocking the Java plug-in on the Web browser to stop a bug that works on the same origin policy (SOP) bypass.
The discovery of security vulnerability came after security researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo disclosed an attack against Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Dubbed as the BEAST, the exploit leverages an SSL and TLS 1.0 vulnerability to decrypt and tap on secure session cookies.
To make the Browser Exploit Against …

Google Chrome is right on track to topple Mozilla Firefox as second most used Web browser starting next year.
Statcounter, a Web analytics and research firm, claims that recent statistical figures indicate that Google Chrome is set to overtake Mozilla Firefox at year-end.
Google Chrome’s current market share stands at 23.6 percent with Mozilla Firefox at 26.8 percent for the month of September, whereas market leader Microsoft Internet Explorer is still ahead by a wide margin at 41.7 …

The Google Chrome web browser is increasingly threatening
the dominance of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser in the U.K. with the Google
browser becoming the second most used web browser in the territory.
According to a report from web analytics firm StatCounter, Google
Chrome has become Britain’s second most popular browser with a 22.1 percent
market share in the country for the month of July.
Displaced from the second spot is the Mozilla Firefox web
browser which StatCounter says has …