A new version of Mozilla‘s Firefox browser catches up partway to Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge when it comes to speed and stability. It’s through a technology called Electrolysis, which Mozilla started working on years ago but mostly put on hold in 2011 because of technical difficulties. Electrolysis splits different computing tasks into …
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Nobody likes it when a web browser bombs instead of opening up a website. So if you’re a Firefox user, you should be happy with Tuesday’s release of Firefox 53, which cuts down browser crashes by 10 percent for most people on Windows computers. The improvement comes through the first big debut of a part of Project Quantum, an effort …
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Brave, a new web browser challenging bigger rivals like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, wants to take privacy on the internet to the next level. Like all other browsers, Brave includes a “private browsing” option that leaves no traces of online activity on your computer and makes websites think you’ve never visited before. But the startup is working on adding …
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If you use Google’s G Suite apps and Mozilla’s Firefox browser, good news: The two are going to get along much better. The G Suite tools for word processing, spreadsheets, Gmail and other chores have worked better on Google’s Chrome than on rival browsers in one important way: You can open and edit documents even when you don’t have a …
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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 with an even better way …
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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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