Slashdot Items Tagged "firefox"

Date / Time Story
Friday March 22, 2024 @03:37PM Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits To Running People-Search Networks
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:09PM Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download
Tuesday February 13, 2024 @05:37PM Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO
Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:11AM Mozilla Names New CEO as It Pivots To Data Privacy
Friday January 26, 2024 @07:31PM Mozilla Says Apple's New Browser Rules Are 'as Painful as Possible' for Firefox
Monday December 18, 2023 @07:59PM Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default
Friday December 15, 2023 @07:56PM Firefox's Android Browser Adds 450+ New Extensions
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:45AM Firefox On the Brink?
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:29PM Firefox for Android is Getting Over 400 More Extensions in December
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:15AM YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
Monday November 20, 2023 @05:32PM Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:16PM Firefox Going To Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default
Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:30AM Mozilla Introduces Firefox Nightly .deb Packages for Debian-based Linux Distros
Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:40AM Mozilla's 'Failed' Bet on Yahoo Takes Spotlight in Google Trial
Friday September 29, 2023 @09:45PM New in Firefox 118: Private Local, Browser-Based Website Translating
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:28AM Mozilla Patches Firefox, Thunderbird Against Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks
Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:59PM With Version 117, Firefox Finally Speaks Chrome's Translation Language
Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:33PM Firefox Users May Import Chrome Extensions Now
Friday August 18, 2023 @04:56PM Mozilla Foundation Warns France's Proposed Web Blocking Law 'Could Threaten the Free Internet'
Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:15PM Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider
Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:06PM Does Desktop Linux Have a Firefox Problem?
Friday August 11, 2023 @08:34AM Mozilla To Bring Firefox Desktop Extension To Android Browser
Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:09PM Firefox 115 Released
Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:50PM Firefox Users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Moving To Extended Support Release
Friday May 26, 2023 @12:32PM Mozilla Stops Firefox Fullscreen VPN Ads After User Outrage
Friday May 12, 2023 @04:16PM Microsoft Wants Firefox To Make Bing Its Default Search Engine
Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:25AM Safari Beats Edge as Second-Most Used Browser in April
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:22PM Windows Defender Finally Squashes Firefox Bug That Ate CPUs For 5 Years
Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:23AM What's New in Firefox Version 110.0?
Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:33PM Mozilla, Like Google, is Looking Ahead To the End of Apple's WebKit Rule
Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:22PM Which Performs Better on Linux: Firefox or Chrome?
Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:37PM Firefox Changes Its User Agent - Because of Internet Explorer 11
Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:02PM Mozilla Just Fixed an 18-Year-Old Firefox Bug
Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:51AM Ask Slashdot: What should Mozilla do to regain Firefox market share?
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:33PM You Can Hook Your MIDI Keyboard Up To a Website With Firefox 108
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:26PM Ask Slashdot: What Should Mozilla Do To Boost Firefox's Market Share?
Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:32AM Chrome, Defender and Firefox 0-days Linked To Commercial IT firm in Spain
Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:09AM Mozilla Looks To Its Next Chapter
Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:53PM Firefox 106 Is Now Available With PDF Annotation, Firefox View
Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:24AM Firefox's New Service Gives You a Burner Phone Number To Cut Down on Spam
Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:35PM Mozilla Reaffirms That Firefox Will Continue To Support Current Content Blockers
Monday July 18, 2022 @12:33AM Report: Facebook has Started Encrypting Links to Counter Browsers' Anti-Tracking Measures
Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:39PM Firefox Can Now Automatically Remove Tracking From URLs
Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:08PM Mozilla Releases Firefox 102
Monday June 20, 2022 @10:48AM Is Firefox OK?
Tuesday June 14, 2022 @11:04AM Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default To All Users Worldwide
Thursday June 02, 2022 @07:10PM Mozilla Releases Local Machine Translation Tools
Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:20PM Mozilla Celebrates the Release of Firefox 100
Wednesday March 23, 2022 @09:59AM Two Years After Chrome and Edge, Firefox is Getting AV1 Hardware Acceleration
Monday February 21, 2022 @02:48AM With Growing Revenue But Slipping Market Share - Is Firefox Okay?
Thursday February 17, 2022 @10:37AM Firefox and Chrome Versions '100' May Break Some Websites
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:57PM Mozilla Is Going To Track Facebook Tracking You
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:39PM Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas
Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:51PM Firefox Fixes Password Leak via Windows Cloud Clipboard Feature
Monday December 13, 2021 @10:39AM Mozilla Expects To Generate More Than $500M in Revenue This Year
Monday December 06, 2021 @11:58AM Firefox 95 Will Include RLBox Sandboxing for Added Security
Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:57PM Mozilla Is Ending Support For Its Firefox Password Manager Sync App
Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:27PM Thousands of Firefox Users Accidentally Commit Login Cookies On GitHub
Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:25AM Firefox Relay Offers Unlimited Email Aliases as Part of its New Premium Plan
Friday November 12, 2021 @01:58PM Microsoft To Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds
Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:16PM PowerPC Fork of Firefox Reaches End of the Road
Friday October 08, 2021 @06:25PM Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes To Mozilla
Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:44PM Firefox Now Shows Ads As Sponsored Address Bar Suggestions
Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:14PM Mozilla Experiment: Set Default Search Engine to Bing for 1% of Firefox Users
Monday September 13, 2021 @11:27AM Mozilla Has Defeated Microsoft's Default Browser Protections in Windows
Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:01PM Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?
Friday September 10, 2021 @08:11PM Security Weaknesses in Mozilla VPN Found and Addressed by Audit
Monday August 23, 2021 @11:21AM Firefox Follows Chrome and Prepares To Block Insecure Downloads
Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:29AM Microsoft is Making it Harder To Switch Default Browsers in Windows 11
Friday August 13, 2021 @04:49PM Mozilla Tests If 'Firefox/100.0' User Agent Breaks Websites
Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:37PM Firefox 91 Pushes Privacy With Stronger New Cookie-clearing Option
Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:37PM Firefox Lost Almost 50 Million Users In 3 Years
Friday July 23, 2021 @10:13PM Mozilla Stops FTP Support in Firefox 90
Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:58PM Firefox Says Its Revamped SmartBlock Won't Break Facebook Login Buttons Anymore
Friday July 09, 2021 @11:53PM Microsoft Edge Beats Firefox To Become the Third-Most Popular Browser
Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:32PM Firefox Extends Privacy and Security of Canadian Internet Users With By-default DNS-over-HTTPS Rollout in Canada
Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:53PM Firefox Begins Testing Sponsors on Some Users' Default Home Page/New Tab Pages
Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:56PM Firefox 89 Arrives With Controversial Proton Interface
Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:21PM 'Mozilla Is Hellbent On Making Their New Firefox UI Unusable'
Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:54PM Firefox 88 Enables JavaScript Embedded In PDFs By Default
Friday April 16, 2021 @01:27PM Nobody is Flying To Join Google's FLoC
Monday April 05, 2021 @04:21PM Microsoft Edge User Numbers Keep Growing As Firefox Falls
Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:42PM NYT: 'If You Care About Privacy, It's Time to Try a New Web Browser'
Monday March 22, 2021 @03:59PM Mozilla Firefox Tweaks Referrer Policy To Shore Up User Privacy
Monday March 15, 2021 @05:22PM Firefox Redesign Drops Compact Density Option
Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:58PM Mozilla Urges 'Remain Calm: the Fox is Still in the Firefox Logo'
Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:13AM Firefox's Total Cookie Protection Aims To Stop Tracking Between Multiple Sites
Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:04PM Firefox 85 Isolated Supercookies, But Dropped Progressive Web App Support
Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:18PM Firefox 85 Hammers the Final Nail Into the Adobe Flash Coffin
Monday January 11, 2021 @11:51AM Firefox To Block Backspace Key From Working as 'Back' Button
Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:16AM Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox Design Refresh
Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:01PM Mozilla Opens the Firefox App Store To Early Testers
Monday December 21, 2020 @06:06PM Firefox To Ship 'Network Partitioning' As a New Anti-Tracking Defense
Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:00PM Firefox 84 Claims Speed Boost from Apple Silicon, Vows to End Flash Support
Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:57PM Microsoft Exposes Adrozek, Malware That Hijacks Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:12AM How Firefox Boosted Its JavaScript Performance
Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:26PM 'Ubuntu Web Remix' Distro Offers Firefox-Based Chrome OS Alternative
Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:11PM Fearing Drama, Mozilla Opens Public Consultation Before Worldwide Firefox DoH Rollout
Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:25PM Firefox 83 Arrives With HTTPS-Only Mode and Faster Performance
Saturday October 24, 2020 @09:18PM So How Good Is Edge on Linux?
Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:17PM Firefox 'Site Isolation' Feature Enters User Testing, Expected Next Year
Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:33PM Mozilla Fears 'Collateral Damage' in Google Antitrust Case
Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:54AM Firefox 81 Released, Can Now Be Your Default Browser in iOS
Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:43AM Bug Allowed Hijacking Other Firefox Mobile Browsers on the Same Wi-Fi Network
Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:28AM Firefox Usage is Down 85% Despite Mozilla's Top Exec Pay Going Up 400%
Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:29AM How to Play Chrome's Hidden 'Dinosaur Game' and Firefox's 'Unicorn Pong'
Saturday September 05, 2020 @09:22PM Is There A Google-Free Future For Firefox?
Friday September 04, 2020 @10:44AM Firefox Will Add a New Drive-by-Download Protection
Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:44PM Firefox Android Build That Caused Issues Is Working As Intended
Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:11AM Firefox Daylight For Android Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, New UI
Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:55PM Can Firefox Be Saved?
Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:12PM Mozilla Extends its Google Search Deal
Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:35AM Firefox Gets Fix For Evil Cursor Attack
Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:06PM Firefox 79 Clears Redirect Tracking Cookies Every 24 Hours
Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:08PM Chrome and Edge Rise In Popularity. Firefox, Opera, and Safari Drop.
Friday July 17, 2020 @09:44AM Firefox Working on Fixing a One-Year-Old Bug in Its Android App That Keeps Camera Active After Users Have Minimized the App or Locked Their Phone
Monday July 13, 2020 @12:45AM WSJ: 'Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers'
Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:02PM Chrome and Firefox Are Getting Support For the New AVIF Image Format
Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:11PM Mozilla Suspends Firefox Send Service While It Addresses Malware Abuse
Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:43AM Mozilla suspends Firefox Send service while it addresses malware abuse
Friday July 03, 2020 @02:47PM Firefox 78.0 is out (and the ESR too)
Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:48PM Firefox 78: Protections Dashboard, New Developer Features, and the End of the Line For Older MacOS Versions
Friday June 26, 2020 @11:21PM Firefox 79 Stable Will Let Users Test Unreleased Features Using 'Experiments'
Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:53PM Comcast Becomes the First ISP To Join Mozilla's TRR Program
Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:27PM Microsoft Edge Accused of Sneakily Importing Firefox Data In Windows 10
Friday June 19, 2020 @12:35AM Mozilla To Launch VPN Product 'in the Next Few Weeks'
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:09PM Firefox 77 Arrives With Faster JavaScript Debugging and Optional Permissions
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:29PM Firefox 77 Arrives With Faster JavaScript Debugging And Optional Permissions
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:25PM Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS Over 'Phishing'
Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:19PM Firefox 78 To Prevent Websites From Forcing Users To Save PDF Documents
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:00PM Firefox 76 Arrives With Password Management and Zoom Improvements
Friday May 01, 2020 @10:50AM New Firefox Service Will Generate Unique Email Aliases To Enter In Online Forms
Friday May 01, 2020 @10:47AM New Firefox service will generate unique email aliases to enter in online forms
Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:34PM Firefox Raises Its Bug Bounties to $10,000
Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:24PM Mozilla Installs Scheduled Telemetry Task On Windows With Firefox 75
Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:20PM Longtime Mozilla Leader Mitchell Baker is Now CEO
Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:02PM Firefox 75 Arrives With Revamped Address Bar; Mozilla To Stick With 2020 Schedule
Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:27PM Edge Overtakes Firefox To Become the Second-Most Popular Browser
Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:48PM Twitter Discloses Firefox Bug That Cached Private Files Sent or Received via DMs
Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:31PM Firefox Is Launching a New Test Pilot With Scroll To Pay Web Publishers
Tuesday March 24, 2020 @10:05AM Mozilla Launches New Initiative With Scroll To Fund Publishers
Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:09PM Firefox To Remove Support For the FTP Protocol
Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:27PM Firefox 74 Slams Facebook In Solitary Confinement: Browser Add-On Stops Social Network Stalking Users Across the Web
Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:23PM KaiOS Technologies and Mozilla partner to work jointly on Gecko
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:15AM Firefox 74 Arrives With Stricter Add-on Rules, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Disabled
Friday March 06, 2020 @08:54PM Edge Browser Scores Worst in Test of Telemetry Privacy
Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:28PM Firefox for Mac and Linux To Get a New Security Sandbox System
Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:10AM Firefox To Enable DNS-over-HTTPS by Default To US Users
Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:10PM Mozilla's Standalone Firefox VPN is Now Available in Beta
Saturday February 15, 2020 @10:29PM Firefox, Wordpress Move to Support Lazy Loading of Images and iFrames
Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:53PM Firefox 73 Arrives With Default Zoom Level and Readability Backplate
Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:14PM The Windows 10 Start Menu Now Harasses Firefox Users
Monday February 03, 2020 @04:12PM Firefox Now Shows What Telemetry Data It's Collecting About You
Monday January 27, 2020 @12:46PM Mozilla Has Banned Nearly 200 Malicious Firefox Add-ons Over the Last Two Weeks
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:41PM Mozilla Wants Young People To Consider 'Ethical Issues' Before Taking Jobs In Tech
Monday January 20, 2020 @12:08AM Why This Time The New Browser Wars Are Different
Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:00PM Browser Benchmark Battle: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge Vs. Brave
Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:48PM Mozilla Lays Off 70 As It Waits For New Products To Generate Revenue
Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:46PM 'Why I Finally Switched from Chrome to Firefox - and You Should Too'
Friday January 10, 2020 @12:07PM Mozilla Says a New Firefox Security Bug is Under Active Attack
Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:03AM Firefox 72 Arrives With Fingerprinting Blocked By Default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux
Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:02PM Mozilla: All Firefox Users Get California's CCPA Privacy Rights To Delete Personal Data
Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:08PM DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think?
Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:22PM Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox
Sunday December 15, 2019 @04:34PM Is Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser Better Than Firefox and Chrome?
Friday December 13, 2019 @11:02AM Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:28AM Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows
Sunday November 17, 2019 @12:14PM Why Firefox Fights for the Future of the Web
Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:50PM Mozilla, Intel, and More Form the Bytecode Alliance To Take WebAssembly Beyond Browsers
Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:30AM Mozilla, Intel, IBM, RedHat, and Fastly join to create the Bytecode Alliance
Friday November 08, 2019 @11:58PM Scammers Are Actively Exploiting A Firefox Bug
Friday November 08, 2019 @02:09PM DNS-over-HTTPS Will Eventually Roll Out in All Major Browsers, Despite ISP Opposition
Friday November 08, 2019 @12:02PM Firefox Turns 15
Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:38AM Fully patch Firefox bug being actively exploited
Monday November 04, 2019 @04:40PM ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says
Sunday November 03, 2019 @12:46PM Firefox To Hide Notification Popups By Default Starting Next Year
Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:31PM Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox
Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:16PM Mozilla: Cloudflare Doesn't Pay Us For Any DoH Traffic
Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:07PM Mozilla: Cloudflare Doesn't Pay Us For Any DoH Traffic
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:12PM Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:10PM Firefox 70 Arrives With Social Tracking Blocked By Default
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:24AM Firefox to Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome
Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:36PM Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser
Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:09PM Mozilla Developer Network Launches a YouTube Channel
Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:42PM Russian Malware 'Patches' Chrome and Firefox To Fingerprint TLS Traffic
Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:34AM Firefox Promises UK Government DNS-Over-HTTPS Won't Be Default in UK
Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:10PM Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Firefox Add HTTP/3 Support
Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:50PM Firefox Moving To a Faster 4-Week Release Cycle
Friday September 13, 2019 @05:17AM Mozilla Launches Paid Premium Support for Enterprise Customers
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:14AM Mozilla Launches VPN as Part of Resurrected Firefox Test Pilot Program
Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:18PM Firefox Will Soon Encrypt DNS Requests By Default
Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:48PM Mozilla Outlines Plan For Manifest V3 Extensions API
Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:22AM Firefox 69 Ratchets Up Tracking Protection, Switching it On by Default
Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:54AM Upcoming Firefox Update Will Decrease Power Usage on macOS by Up To Three Times
Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:33AM Apple, Google, and Mozilla Block Kazakhstan's HTTPS Intercepting Certificate
Friday August 16, 2019 @09:01PM Chrome and Firefox Changes Spark the End of 'Extended Validation' Certificates
Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:33PM Firefox To Warn When Saved Logins are Found in Data Breaches
Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:59PM Firefox 68 Arrives With Darker Reader View, Recommended Extensions, and IT Customizations
Monday July 08, 2019 @12:02PM Mozilla is Funding a Way To Support Julia in Firefox
Friday July 05, 2019 @01:13PM Mozilla Set To Offer Ad-Free News Consumption Capability on Firefox For $5 Per Month