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Google Renews Firefox Partnership 3 More Years
Word came from Mozilla of a new revenue agreement between Google and Mozilla, makers of the Firefox Search engine. The announcement on the official Mozilla Blog called the deal a "new agreement for default search in Firefox," extending the search relationship with Google for three more years.
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Did Google Let Its Mozilla Search Partnership Die?
Ever notice how your newly installed Firefox browser would always default to the Google search site? That’s because of a lucrative deal Mozilla, owner of the Firefox brand, cut with Google back in 2006, in the pre-Chrome days.
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Firefox 8 Adds Twitter to the Bar, Available Now
As usual, you can grab the latest version of Firefox from the product servers before it goes live for general consumption. This iteration offers new features, better Twitter integration and improved start-up performance tweaks.
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Firefox Browser for Android Tablets A Creature of Beauty
In a new blog post, the Firefox team has unveiled its tablet-specific web browser, showing a feature-packed app for the Honeycomb-powered tablets. For Fiery Tablets Hot on the heels of the Firefox 6 (and 7) release a new Mozilla blog post has unveiled a version specifically for Android tablets.
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Security Firm Finds Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome; Should We Be Afraid?
Since its launch, Google Chrome (news, site ) has been pretty much rock-solid in terms of security, to the extent that Google has offered rewards to hackers who can break into Chrome. A recent turn of events might prove that Chrome may not be so secure after all.
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Tracking Firefox 4's 'Do Not Track' Usage
Fact #1: Firefox is my preferred web browser. Fact #2: I have written a few articles chronicling the government’s and web browser’s efforts to provide Internet users with a Do Not Track option. Fact #3: I had to consult Firefox’s support page to learn how to enable the “Do Not
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Browser Speeds & Stability Compared; Should You Switch Browsers Now?
Web browsers are often a highly personal choice. You would usually have a preference based on speed, feature set and compatibility. With the recent release of IE9 and Firefox 4 claiming to be faster than ever, tests have been run to determine speed and stability on each. Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 last week
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Internet Explorer 9 Launches as Firefox 4 Warms Up Nicely
Microsoft's (news, site) latest browser is now official for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, while Firefox 4's final test is publically available. Just Browsing Microsoft's newest browser launched this week, but only for Windows 7 or Vista users, leaving millions of XP users with IE8 or lower.
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The FTC Privacy Report, "Do Not Track" Options, and Web Analytics
As in many things having to do with the Internet, there’s a predilection to complicate rather than simplify, exaggerate rather than plainly-speak and obfuscate rather than be transparent…and the current privacy solutions being offered by the Web browser triumvirate -- Microsoft, Mozilla and Google -- are no exception.
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Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Hits the Streets
It seems just a blip in time ago that we were hoping for big things from Microsoft's (news, site ) Internet Explorer 8, but two years later, a bigger, better, but nicer-playing replacement is already here.
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Google, Microsoft, Mozilla Vie for Next Gen Web Privacy Standard
In an attempt to comply with the recent wishes of the Federal Trade Commission, the World Wide Web's biggest browsers are each working on solutions aimed at helping users avoid behavioral targeting.
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Browser Wars: Mozilla & Google Offer Up Opt-out Features
The latest action on the browser wars battlefield is a dual of opt-out skills. Yesterday, both Mozilla and Google announced the inclusion of tools in their respective browsers that make it easier for users to withdraw from behavioral tracking.
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PushNote: A New Layer of Web Commentary
Launching today, Pushnote adds a new way to comment on websites and pages without the message being buried in a forum.
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Browser Wars: Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is the Number One Browser in Europe
Browser wars are getting more dramatic. For the first time ever, Mozilla Firefox (news, site) overtakes Internet Explorer. For now the dominance of Firefox is only in Europe but is this the beginning of the end for Internet Explorer (news, site)? Recent data from
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