Mozilla mandates that new Firefox features rely on encrypted connections
Future web-facing features in the browser must now meet a standard that requires all browser-to-server-and-back traffic be encrypted.
Future web-facing features in the browser must now meet a standard that requires all browser-to-server-and-back traffic be encrypted.
Mozilla plans to end support for its Firefox browser running on Windows XP and Windows Vista sometime in 2017.
Mozilla today released a Windows 10 version of Firefox, making good on a pledge last month to get something in users' hands as soon as possible after the debut of the new OS.
Mozilla yesterday updated its Firefox browser to patch a zero-day vulnerability being used to harvest passwords on Windows and Linux machines.
Mozilla yesterday went public with its complaint about Windows 10 resetting the default browser, calling it "disturbing" and demanding that it "undo its aggressive move to override user choice."
Mozilla plans to launch a new testing program next month that will let Firefox users try out potential changes to the browser, according to documents published by the open-source developer.
Mozilla plans a campaign to stop or slow desertions from Firefox to Windows 10's new Edge browser because the OS's express setup changes previous defaults to Edge during an upgrade, according to published documents.
Mozilla plans to release the Windows 10 version of its Firefox browser in August or September, and is already showing what the new browser will look like.
Mozilla on Monday began blocking all versions of Adobe Flash Player from running automatically in its Firefox browser, reacting to news of even more zero-day vulnerabilities unearthed in a massive document cache pilfered from the Italian Hacking Team surveillance firm.
Mozilla has decided that its current 18-week development schedule is too slow, prompting it to pick up the pace for pushing out new features for its Firefox browser.
Mozilla will accelerate the release of new features for its Firefox browser, dumping its current 18-week development schedule for something nimbler, a company manager told contributors last week.
Yahoo's share gains since November from a deal with Mozilla may be a clue about whether the search company can attract more users through the just-announced contract to change Internet Explorer's and Chrome's default search through installations of Oracle's Java.
Mozilla, which has been talking about adding multi-processing to its Firefox browser since 2009, appears ready to finally roll out the technology.
After years of spinning its wheels, Mozilla recently stepped up work on separating page rendering from content in Firefox to make the browser more secure and more stable.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is about to lose the one market it's had locked up for decades: The enterprise.