It's about five years since I started using Firefox, so in a way this is news that's been a long time coming. Of course Firefox hasn't had the advantage of being the default browser that has shipped with every PC that has been sold in the last ten years or so. Two out of the four weeks in the month of October, Net Applications put Firefox market share ... Read full entry

While it's early days yet, a quick look at browser usage stats shows Google's Chrome browser appears to have dented Firefox market share rather than that of Internet Explorer. Industry feeling is Chrome was intended to compete with the Microsoft browser, rather than Firefox or Opera, et al. You live by the early adopters, you die by the early adopters?

I have a confession to make. I have not yet downloaded and installed Google's Chrome browser. Shame on me. I've been tuning into the excited babble coming out of various discussions forums and Twitter in recent days, but I still can't motivate myself to "make the switch". I realise that this stance places my reputation as an "early adopter", such that it is, on the line, but my question is ... Read full entry

Take a few minutes to learn about the experimental Firefox plugin Ubiquity. The ability to quickly and easily find information that is meaningful and relevant to you, simply by way of a few keystrokes, particularly from divergent sources, seems more like the function of a super-computer, rather than a mere web browser plug-in that allows a user to generate their own mashups. You're writing an email to invite a ... Read full entry

Despite being downloaded in record breaking numbers on Download Day, not everyone is overjoyed with the latest release of Firefox. Andrew Brown for one has decided to adopt the latest Opera browser as his default, and draws some interesting distinctions between open and closed source software development when comparing the browsers. The contrast between Opera and Firefox is an interesting example of the contrasting strengths of open and closed ... Read full entry

Your chance to be a part of browser download history when Firefox 3 is released sometime in the next few weeks. Will the world record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period be broken? Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that ... Read full entry

A study of the four best known current browsers finds Safari and Firefox (especially pending release version three) to be the best when tested against a variety of benchmarks. Web 2.0 applications and sites place the focus firmly on browser performance. Anyone who still believes that the speed of your DSL connection is the only potential bottleneck is gravely mistaken. Key parts of Ajax applications run locally, which ... Read full entry

A Firefox plugin, Add-Art, could just be the counter balance to advertising, targeted or otherwise, that art lovers especially are looking for. Addart will work with the Adblockplus. While Adblockplus replaces each advert with a less annoying blank space, Addart will connect to an online database of artworks and dump them in the space. The picture database will be updated every two weeks and include the work ... Read full entry

After complaints, Apple tweaks Software Update for Safari As a Windows Safari user I actually found the lack of an auto-update feature, which Firefox offers, a nuisance. Initially Apple were "forcing" users of products such as iTunes to download and install the Safari browser by way of its updating software, an idea that drew a lot of criticism, especially from the makers of Firefox. Apple have since allowed ... Read full entry

Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college This makes me feel better about flunking uni, way back in the day... downloading and installing Firefox four or five years ago (it was a pre-release version whatever it was), has apparently redeemed me of my misspent youth. ...everywhere you look, if someone is using Firefox, they're way more likely to be using other power tools online. The reasoning: In order to ... Read full entry