July 8, 2012
by Neil T
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It is with a little sadness that Mozilla Thunderbird will no longer receive resources from the Mozilla Foundation. The decision has been made to focus on other products (mainly Firefox), and that there’s not much room for further innovation in … Continue reading
March 15, 2012
by Neil T
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Firefox 11 was made available on Tuesday – if you haven’t yet updated, this blog post may convince you to, as with a little tweak your web browsing should get significantly quicker. Firefox 11 now has experimental support for SPDY, … Continue reading
March 13, 2012
by Neil T
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There’s an interesting discussion that has appeared on the Mozilla Platform Developers Newsgroup. Firstly – people still use newsgroups! Who knew? Secondly, and on a more serious note, the discussion shows that a future version of Firefox will probably support … Continue reading
November 11, 2011
by Neil T
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This is an example of a blog post that I probably shouldn’t have to write. As the title suggests, it’s to do with uninstalling Firefox extensions, which should be as simple as opening the Addons Manager and selecting ‘Remove’, and … Continue reading
July 3, 2011
by Neil T
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Over the past few days I’ve been trying out Postbox as my mail client. Regular readers will know I’m a long-time user of Mozilla Thunderbird, having used it since version 0.3 or something like that, so considering switching is potentially … Continue reading
June 24, 2011
by Neil T
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Earlier this week, Firefox 5.0 was released, and this represents the first release through Mozilla’s new ‘rapid release development cycle’ that will see new releases more quickly than before. Only three months have passed since Firefox 4.0 which was the … Continue reading
March 11, 2011
by Neil T
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A release candidate of Firefox 4 has finally been released, and one of the major new features is hardware acceleration – using your graphics card to help to make the browser faster and more responsive.
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February 27, 2011
by Neil T
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You’re probably familiar with HTTPS – the encrypted form of HTTP that your web browser uses when sending sensitive data.
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November 10, 2010
by Neil T
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I was going to post about all the awesome changes due in Firefox 4 on Mac OS X, but Mozilla developer Josh Aas has done it better already. I’ll therefore just summarise a few of the changes.
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July 15, 2010
by Neil T
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While I was away, the first beta of Firefox 4 was released
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