Tab management ought to be a huge priority for web browsers. I don’t know about you, but I find myself with dozens upon dozens of tabs littering my browser by lunchtime. Things don’t improve in the afternoon. Microsoft and Mozilla are taking notice. Edge will soon let you set tabs aside, and Firefox is experimenting …
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Browser makers pay lots of attention to speeding up all the parts of loading a website — downloading a page’s programming instructions, running JavaScript code, pushing graphics and words to the screen — to spare us annoying waits. By contrast, refreshing a page you’ve already loaded seems pretty ho-hum. But programmers for Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome browsers have been …
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Mozilla’s new “Moz://a” branding builds on the :// characters in every website address. Yet some browsers don’t know exactly what to make of the name. When you type “Moz://a” into the address bar, Google’s Chrome, Opera Software’s Opera, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox treat it as a search term rather than a web address. Search engines from Google, Microsoft and …
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Last year, Mozilla, the internet company best known for the Firefox browser, publicly started the rebranding process by opening the door to public feedback. With several options on display, Mozilla asked for comments and input from all who cared to share. As of today, the new logo is official and the simple change is meant as a reminder that Mozilla …
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If you’ve heard of Mozilla, it’s probably because you’ve used its Firefox browser. Now the nonprofit wants to expand out of technology into politics. Mozilla is marshaling public support for political positions, like backing net neutrality, defending encryption and keeping government surveillance from getting out of hand, says Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Mozilla’s chief legal and business officer. The organization is funding …
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The web has taken a beating in the smartphone era. But it’s about to start beating back. Explosive growth of the web, starting in the 1990s, connected the world’s population. In the last decade, though, we all started tapping app icons instead of web hyperlinks to chat with friends, share photos and buy products online. Now Google’s Chrome team and …
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Twenty years ago, websites were mostly text documents with a sprinkling of images and hyperlinks to other websites. Now they’re interactive experiences with instant messaging pop-ups, autoplaying video, auto-updating articles and animated graphics that swoop around the page as you scroll. And Mozilla has decided it’s time to update its Firefox browser to better cope with this complex reality. On …
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