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Internet Explorer is Killing Chrome in Browser Wars, But Also Losing - Huh?

Posted 05/02/2013 at 9:14am | by Paul Lilly

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Conflicting data makes it difficult to gauge the browser landscape.

Depending on which data collection service you trust the most, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is either wiping the floor with Google's Chrome browser, or getting spanked by the relative newcomer. Starting with the former, NetMarketShare has IE way out in the lead with a 55.81 percent share of the desktop browser market, virtually unchanged from last month and up a little more than a percentage point from a year ago.

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Mozilla and Epic Games Port Unreal Engine 3 to the Web

Posted 03/29/2013 at 12:54am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Mozilla touts the gaming potential of its JavaScript-based answer to Google’s NaCL at GDC

Browser makers are notorious for taking disproportionately great pride in even the slightest of improvements in JavaScript performance. But when it comes to Mozilla Firefox’s ASM.js optimization module OdinMonkey most of the hype seems justified. On Wednesday, the non-profit outfit, which claims that its ASM.js implementation can deliver Javascript performance that’s only about twice as slow as native code, used its GDC session to showcase a web-based version of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 that relies on ASM.js.

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Mozilla Confirms They Won’t Develop Firefox For iOS Until Apple Allows Alternate Rendering Engines

Posted 03/10/2013 at 12:53pm | by Justin Kerr

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Mozilla is intentionally ignoring Apple’s mobile platform.

iOS users have a ton of alternate browser choices these days, but only if you don’t mind using a severely gimped and re-skinned version of Safari. Google for example has chosen to port over a version of its highly successful Chrome browser, however unlike the situation on the desktops, iOS Chrome is significantly slower than Safari. Apple currently forces competitors to make use of its much slower UIWebView rendering engine, while the built in version of Safari has access to the significantly faster Nitro engine. This policy ensures competitors are unable to match Safari in the speed department, and Mozilla claims this is the primary reason why they currently have no intention of developing for the platform.

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Google Chrome Loses Market Share To Internet Explorer

Posted 03/03/2013 at 7:23pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving.

For years Internet Explorer has been easy to pick on, but for once the Redmond based software giant is bucking the trend. Market share for Internet Explorer has reached an 18-month high, and it seems to have done so largely at the expense of Google Chrome. In February IE climbed 0.68 points to 55.82 percent. Chrome dropped 1.21 percent, and Firefox rocketed above 20 percent to settle at 16.27 and 20.12 percent respectively.

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Sony Working on Firefox OS Smartphone

Posted 02/27/2013 at 12:59am | by Pulkit Chandna

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The company aims to have its first Firefox OS product on the market in 2014

The ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has made one thing very clear: that Mozilla’s Firefox OS is steadily gaining support among mobile carriers, with as many as 18 carriers from around the world having already been confirmed as backers of the platform. One such carrier, Spain-based Telefónica, has entered into an agreement with Sony to, among other things, “explore” the development of a Firefox OS-based handset.

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Firefox 22 Will Block Third-Party Cookies by Default

Posted 02/24/2013 at 8:48pm | by Pullkit Chandna

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New Firefox cookie policy described as "a nuclear first strike against the ad industry” by Internet Advertising Bureau's senior vice president Mike Zaneis

A 2012 Pew survey found that over two-thirds of Internet users had an unfavorable opinion of targeted or behavioral ads. Although an year has passed since results of the study were published, such ads, due to their obvious privacy implications, continue to be controversial. Blocking third-party cookies is one way of preventing advertisers from stalking you online, but the onus to do so is mostly on the user, as the top three browsers all allow third-party cookies by default. Very soon, this will change as far as the hundreds of millions who use Firefox are concerned because Mozilla is all set to change its cookie policyy.

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Mozilla Backtracks on Decision to Cease Development of 64-bit Firefox

Posted 12/24/2012 at 11:11am | by Paul Lilly

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Don't look now, but 64-bit Firefox nightlies are set to return.

Mozilla in November made the decision to pull the plug on 64-bit Firefox for Windows, disabling 64-bit nightlies because of a lack of resources required to make it worthwhile. What Mozilla didn't anticipate was that there would be "significant negative feedback" from the online community, and because of that, the open source browser maker said it's willing to make a compromise.

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Mozilla Reflects on 2012 Successes, Claims Users Love "Do Not Track"

Posted 12/16/2012 at 11:57am | by Justin Kerr

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Mozilla comments on what they got right in 2012.

In terms of market share, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have been trading blows, angling for the coveted second place title all year. Firefox has continued to decline, but loses on all sides are leveling out, and Chrome isn’t seeing the huge gains it once did. This has given Mozilla the confidence they need going into 2013. Vice President of Engineering Johnathan Nightingale shared his own opinion on what they got right, and which of the company's many new initiatives have been resonating well with the Firefox community.

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Firefox 18 Enters Beta Channel With IonMonkey JavaScript JIT Compiler

Posted 11/26/2012 at 8:51pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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A new Firefox beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux is now available for download, Mozilla announced on Monday. Scheduled to hit the stable release channel in the week of January 6, 2013 as Firefox 18, this beta includes, among a host of other things, a brand new JavaScript JIT compiler.

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Mozilla Ceases Development of 64-bit Firefox

Posted 11/23/2012 at 10:22am | by Paul Lilly

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Mozilla 64-bit Firefox Turn out the lights, the 64-bit Firefox party is over. After developers discussed the topic in a somewhat lengthy thread, Mozilla has decided to shelve any and all work related to 64-bit versions of the Firefox browser. That includes nightly and hourly releases. Developer Benjamin Smedberg first proposed the idea of ceasing 64-bit development due to the builds being "a constant source of misunderstanding and frustration."

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