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Thunderbird 6 Adds Better Theme Support, Fixes Bugs

8:20AM August 17, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Alongside its release of Firefox 6, Mozilla announced the availability of Thunderbird 6 as well. The newest version of the email client offers little in the way of new features but offers numerous bug fixes and is now based on the Gecko 6 engine. More »

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Mozilla Shows Off New Firefox Design Mockups, Starts Experimenting In Nightly Builds

5:55AM August 2, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

If you’ve been unhappy with Firefox’s somewhat stagnant design recently, you’ll be happy to see that Mozilla is putting a heavy focus on Firefox’s interface in upcoming versions. Above is one of the many mockups they’re trying out for future versions of Firefox, though they note that they’re just that — mockups. More »

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Burning Brighter: The Future Of Firefox, Browsers, The Web

3:30AM July 9, 2010 | matt buchanan

Remember the Browser Wars of the Aughts? Internet Exploder gripped the web. Firefox 1.0 challenged the king. Six years later, IE is waning. (But still strong.) WebKit rules smartphones. Where does Mozilla, and the web, go from here? More »

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Happy Birthday: A Look Back At Five Years Of Firefox

4:00AM November 10, 2009 | Kevin Purdy

Five years ago, an open-source browser, one that didn’t come with your computer, was available as a 1.0 download. To say it’s changed the world’s web experience is an understatement. Let’s take a look back at five years of the ‘fox. More »

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Camino 2 Release Candidate Available For Download

4:30AM October 31, 2009 | Whitson Gordon

Mac only: If you’re looking for a lighter weight alternative to Firefox or Safari, you can’t go wrong with Camino, Mozilla’s native Mac browser. The new version includes built-in Flash blocking, Safe Browsing, and a new and improved UI. More »

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Mozilla SeaMonkey Updated To 2.0

7:30AM October 29, 2009 | Whitson Gordon

Mozilla’s all-in-one browser, email, RSS and calendar suite SeaMonkey has been updated to 2.0, and it’s a pretty big overhaul. More »

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Mozilla Releasing Unknown App For IPhone

12:00AM October 20, 2009 | Kevin Purdy

Mozilla CEO John Lilly tells tech blogger Om Malik that the Firefox maker will “release an app to the iPhone App Store in the next few weeks” and that “it’ll surprise people”. More »

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Firefox Now Auto-Blocks Microsoft .NET Extensions

7:00AM October 19, 2009 | Kevin Purdy

Firefox users on Windows probably have the .NET Framework Assistant extension installed, even if they don’t remember asking it to install (they didn’t). Now Mozilla is blocking the extension for all users to stop a security breach. More »

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Use Firefox To Fix The Web’s Biggest Annoyances

2:00AM September 1, 2009 | The How-To Geek

If you’ve spent more than five minutes browsing around the web lately, you’ve no doubt dealt with greedy webmasters assaulting their readers with terrible design and awful ads—but Firefox makes it easy to take back control. More »

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Weave 0.6 Updates With New Look, Performance Boost, Sync

2:30AM August 29, 2009 | Adam Pash

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Mozilla’s in-house syncing extension, called Mozilla Weave, updated today with a new, polished UI for setting up and configuring your sync preferences, “major performance improvements”, better error handling, and support for syncing Personas, Firefox’s on-the-fly theming add-on. More »