Mozilla has reached a new milestone with its upcoming Firefox mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. The development team has announced the release of Fennec Milestone 8, or M8 for short. As we reported earlier this month, the program is targeted to be finished and released by next year.
“Fennec is being tested pretty hard now, [...]

Mozilla wants to grab its piece of the mobile market, and soon. The chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitchell Baker, posted in a recent blog that she wants to “have an effective product in the mobile market” by 2010.
One might surmise that product will be Mozilla’s long-under-development mobile browser, codenamed “Fennec.” Pre-alpha builds [...]

Mozilla is scrambling to build a private browsing feature for the upcoming Firefox 3.1 beta release, according to developers’ notes posted on mozilla.org.
The notes — uncovered just a short time ago by Computerworld — indicate the “privacy mode” is on-track to meet the beta cut-off date. It’ll include the same sorts of functions introduced [...]

With all the talk about Google Chrome traffic and the future of the Web, we thought we’d take a look back at the past and just how far some online services have evolved.
Our first Q-Rewind stop is in November of 1998, when a couple of dudes from Stanford set up a small search [...]

Mozilla execs may have said they weren’t worried about Chrome, but now the company is fighting back against Google’s browser offering with a new speed test showing its performance compared to the upcoming Firefox 3.1. Specifically, the tests compare Chrome’s V8 open source Javascript engine with the new Firefox’s TraceMonkey engine.

Mozilla claims its offering [...]

So after years of rumors and speculation, Google has made it official, the GBrowser, now known as Google Chrome will be released Tuesday for Windows, with Mac and Linux following.
It’s another bold move from a company that wants to be everything to everyone, but logical in the sense that Google is a web company and [...]

Adaptive Path, in collaboration with Mozilla labs has release the above video of a concept browser of the future, Aurora.
With Aurora, Adaptive Path attempts to define a plausible vision of how technology, the browser, and the web might evolve in the future by depicting that experience in a variety of real-world contexts.
The video itself covers [...]

Mozilla has released its first update for Firefox 3.
Firefox 3.0.1 patches a handful of security and stability issues and a few other minor behind-the-scenes glitches.
The new version is available for download now and should also pop up automatically within 48 hours if you’re running Firefox 3.

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The wait is over, and a much-needed new tool for advanced browser synchronization is finally here.
Since word broke that Google would not upgrade its Browser Sync utility for Firefox 3 and would discontinue the service altogether at the end of 2008, users of multiple computers have been searching for an alternative solution. Programs like [...]

Firefox has officially landed the world record for most software downloads in a single day.
Mozilla engineers got the news from the Guinness Book of World Records today. With 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3 on June 17, the company now holds the title of “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.”
You can download and [...]

Mozilla has just released a software update for its Firefox 2 users.
Yes, you read correctly: Firefox 2. The new Firefox 2.0.0.15 is a security patch for anyone who hasn’t made the jump to Firefox 3 just yet. The patch fixes a host of vulnerabilities found in the 2.0 program and is [...]

The latest Mozilla tally shows a total of just over nine million downloads of the new Firefox 3 program within its first 24 hours of release.
Mozilla had only hoped to hit five to seven million to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for most downloads of a single program in one day. [...]

Mozilla has achieved its record-setting download goal for the new Firefox 3.
Nearly 7.3 million people have downloaded the software so far, with more than two hours still left on the clock. Mozilla had only hoped to hit five to seven million total within this first day.
The U.S. appears to have the most downloads thus [...]