Firefox swings to the rescue, Dec 15, 2005

Firefox's tale is a curious one. The closer one looks, the more it appears to be a cooler, hipper, and safer incarnation of the allegedly deceased Netscape.

The Mozilla Corporation is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive when Firefox 1.5 is released.

The Mozilla Foundation's popular open-source browser, Firefox, turned one year old yesterday. An executive at Mozilla stated, that demand for the Firefox browser had completely out-stripped the company s expectations.

The Mozilla Foundation has released a second beta of the Firefox 1.5 Web browser that, like the first version released last month, focuses on tackling nagging security issues.

Mozilla Corp. has launched a website for developers wanting to build on the Mozilla platform -- the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), unofficially dubbed "DevMo."

It's not that Firefox, and other open-source programs, don't have security holes. They do. The key difference, from an open-source advocate's viewpoint, is that everyone can see what's going on, so as soon as a problem is reported it can be fixed.

When version 1.0 of Firefox was released in November 2004, it caused a sensation as a seemingly more secure and more feature-rich option to Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer (IE) which for years had held a market share north of 90 percent and which Microsoft had barely bothered to impro

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer halted the steady market share advance of The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser in July, a Web site monitoring company announced today.

The non-profit group that distributes the popular Firefox Web browser is shifting the creation and marketing of its products to a new for-profit corporation.

Yahoo! has followed in Google's footsteps by making its toolbar available on three popular desktop operating systems

With development of new features taking longer than expected, Mozilla feels it's 'risky' to set a firm launch date for Firefox 1.5

This version, code-named Deer Park, includes an integrated update system that will make it possible to patch the browser with small-sized upgrade files.

The Mozilla Foundation updated the Firefox Web browser Tuesday in order to patch a series of security vulnerabilities, including widely publicized browser spoofing issue and a frame-injection issue

Google is poised to release a version of its toolbar for the Firefox browser, according to information sent to developers of an open source toolbar alternative.

The Mozilla Foundation may face problems enforcing its conditions of use for the Firefox browser due to trademark issues.

Mirroring a trend in the United States, Firefox continues to grow across Europe, but more slowly than it had.

Witty promotional videos featuring people's extreme reaction to discovering Firefox are spreading fast online

The Mozilla Foundation posted a release candidate late Tuesday of a security update to Firefox that patches a pair of vulnerabilities leaked last weekend.

Open-source software group Mozilla.org said Friday that its Firefox Web browser has been downloaded 50 million times since its release in November.

In the newest indication that Firefox has become mainstream, IBM is trying to hire programmers to adapt the open-source Web browser to work well with Big Blue's server software.

When Bill Robertson decided last year to switch 450 workers and 100 desktops at De Bortoli Wines to the open source Firefox web browser, he had the company's future in mind.

Battling browsers are back. Just as in the 1990s, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator fought each other for supremacy, today Mozilla's Firefox browser is trying to gain traction over IE.

I think Firefox is the best browser on the planet, but it's not going to stay that way long unless the team behind it gets their act together sooner rather than later.

While Mozilla Firefox has slowed its growth pace, the open-source browser still is making enough inroads to knock Microsoft's Internet Explorer below 90 percent user share for the first time in three years.

The (Fire)fox is out in the wild and the pests and predators are beginning to stir, enticed no doubt by the increased profile of the product and perhaps even emboldened by the hype that it is more secure than its rivals.

Yahoo's toolbar has been customised for Firefox, but analysts warn that the popular open source browser needs more vendor support before it cracks the enterprise

The success of the Firefox browser is driving takeup of open source applications in Australia and opening the door for widespread Linux adoption on the desktop, according to the newly-elected Linux Australia president, Jon Oxer.

The New Zealand engineer who spear-headed development work on Firefox, the browser that is causing Microsoft quite a few headaches, has a new job.

The next version of Thunderbird should give users extra protection against online fraud

The Mozilla e-mail client has all of the stuff an experienced user needs and is more secure than Outlook, but it doesn't have the right stuff for most enterprises

Following up on the success of the Firefox open source Web browser, released by the Mozilla Foundation last fall, open source software developers are readying some new products aimed at a consumer market still dominated by proprietary software.

Some ZDNet UK readers took issue with the experts, arguing that the flaw shouldn't be regarded as a security vulnerability, because a Firefox user would already have to have clicked on a phishing e-mail and been taken to a fake site to be at risk.

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