Firefox is all over the news with its upcoming release of Firefox 3. According to reports, Mozilla is already in the planning stage for the next major update to the FF franchise, i.e. Firefox 3.1. It will incorporate features that were cut from the RC1 build that was pushed out a few days ago.
The [recently released] Acid3 test, like its predecessor, allows for subjecting modern browsers to advanced testing of its standards compliance. Acid2, which most current browsers pass (including IE8 Beta 1), was mainly focused on CSS rendering.
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Acid3 - on the other hand - doesn’t evaluate a single technology. [...]
TinyUrl.com is a website that takes long URLs and transforms them into cute little buggers like http://tinyurl.com/2uhxg4. It’s useful when one would like to send on, um, long links or when one is interested in social networking sites like Twitter where typing space is fairly limited. The service has been turned into a handy-dandy Firefox [...]
Mozilla is seemingly addressing security patches a lot faster than its competitor Microsoft. In 2005, it took Microsoft at least 38 days to address a publicly known and actively used exploit. Unused exploits took MS 256 days to patch. Firefox, on the other hand, only took 16 days to seal comparable vulnerabilities.
The difference lies within [...]
Mozilla finally released its next-generation web browser Firefox 2. I’ve been playing around with the RCs the last few weeks, but never got to in-depth testing, neither did I use it full-time due to incompatibility issues with my add-ons. Now the final release’s here, and I’ll definitely install it and put it to the test. [...]