The browser war heated to a burning orange glow Tuesday with Mozilla’s release of Firefox 4. Just as Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11 and Chrome 10 before it, Firefox 4 has cut away the fat, and morphed ...

Competition in the Web browser market is heating up, and fresh on the heels of Microsoft releasing Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla has set Firefox 4 loose upon the world. Long the number-two browser ...

In the epic battle among browsers, the latest flanking maneuver comes from the Mozilla Foundation, in the form of Firefox 4 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. As with recent releases of Safari, Google ...

For a long time, most new browser releases have seemed to primarily offer “me-too” features to match the competition, together with interface tweaks and theoretical speed improvements measured in ...

Mozilla on Wednesday released the Firefox 4 release candidate, the final update before the company formally unveils its next-generation browser. Those who have been testing Firefox 4 will be ...

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Microsoft may have seen fit to boast about the 2.35 million downloads its new Internet Explorer 9 browser received in its first 24 hours, but Mozilla’s Firefox 4 has since essentially blown such ...

Mozilla may still be weeks away from automatically upgrading users of its aging Firefox 3.5 browser, but even without the benefit of those additional users its latest browser version continues to ...

Here are a couple of random notes about Firefox 4. Linux distribution: To the best of my knowledge, PCLinuxOS was the first to distribute the final release of Firefox 4. That is based on the fact that ...

Mozilla has unleashed Firefox 4, the next version of the popular open source web browser. The fourth major upgrade for Firefox was originally scheduled for the end of 2010, but the sheer number of new ...

We all want a faster, more efficient web browsing experience. Some immediately flocked to Google Chrome as soon as it was released, because of its super fast speeds. Others restrained themselves and ...

Mozilla set an unofficial record for software downloads on the second day of Firefox 4’s launch, the company said Friday. [ See also: Best Firefox extensions: Organize your way to a better Firefox ] ...