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Firefox 12 Released

seangw — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:45:05 +0000

Finally Firefox has migrated to the “silent update” that has kept Chrome browsers updated. Mozilla announced Firefox 12 today. You can download it at mozilla.org. The big changes with this update are the auto-update functionality, and the improvements mad to Developer Tools. You can check out some other improvements such as: Multitouch on Android support [...]

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Firefox 10 Released

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:52:46 +0000

Mozilla released Firefox 10 this morning. Firefox has converted over to the Google Chrome release numbering, so browser versions aren’t as “major” anymore, but the new browser still brings some nice enhancements. The biggest addition (especially for us web developers) is the addition of extra built-in developer tools (very similar to Chrome’s): Inspect tool for CSS Page [...]

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Chrome beats Firefox in Global Usage

seangw — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:20:24 +0000

According to statcounter, Chrome overtook Firefox globally for the first time. My traffic still has Firefox at 25%, Chrome at 22.6% and Safari at 28% for overall traffic (most likely due to the high number of iPhone visitors, 25% of seangw.com traffic is mobile). Good to hear folks around the world are abandoning Internet Explorer. [...]

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Firefox 8.0 Released

seangw — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:41:32 +0000

Developers over at Mozilla have released Firefox 8.0, Mozilla Firefox Adds Twitter Search and New Features that Make Web Browsing Easier. Some features in the new release are: We no longer see “major” releases of Firefox as meaning anything twitter is now included as a search option Load tabs on demand Disabling add-ons installed by [...]

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Firefox: How People Use New Tabs

seangw — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:18:08 +0000

Over at Boriss’ Blog, an informative article was posted, How People Use New Tabs in Firefox: As the web evolves, so does the way people interact with the web. Firefox’s user experience and research teams have been eager to learn about our users’ browsing habits so that we can better design for our users. Lately, [...]

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Firefox 7 Released: 50% reduction in memory

seangw — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:00:48 +0000

Mozilla released Firefox 7 yesterday to the general public. Don’t think of Firefox 7 as a totally new browser, they are just adopting the Chrome release number system (much more frequent releases, more minor upgrades). The biggest gain in Firefox 7 is in that it can reduce memory usage by up to 50%, along with [...]

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Firefox 5 Released

seangw — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:40:25 +0000

I had forgotten about Firefox’s promise to release browsers more rapidly (following the Chrome rapid release model). Firefox 5 was released today. Some exciting improvements in Firefox 5 (mostly just the CSS3 animations): CSS3 Animations Mobile Firefox supports WOFF fonts Security fixes (of course) Enhanced Canvas tag support (accepts more, and works better) HTTP request [...]

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Google Drops Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3 Support

seangw — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:39:22 +0000

Happy to hear, Google has announced that as of August 1 (2011), they will no longer support: Firefox 3.5 Internet Explorer 7 Safari 3 This means that new functionality (which will probably roll out sometime this summer) may not work perfectly in those browsers. It’s a nice move as those browsers are getting old, and [...]

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Firefox 4 Released

seangw — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:33:54 +0000

The official release of Firefox 4 is today. Slightly late to join the pack with some of the features. Since the last major update of Firefox there have been 10 releases of Chrome. Some of the new features have already been released in other browsers: Bookmark sync (Chrome even has a more thorough sync feature) [...]

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Brower Market Share: Chrome at 10.7%, IE 6 at 12.03% – Companies upgrading from IE6

seangw — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:00:59 +0000

ConceivablyTech has done a good job summarizing the data from NetMarketShare. From The Third Double-Digit Browser: Chrome Blasts Past 10%: Google’s Chrome had another successful month and ended 2010 with 10.70% market share, according to Net Applications and almost 16% according to StatCounter. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continued to lose market share on a fast pace [...]

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