Web browser news as it happens
In: Firefox
8 Feb 2010Mozilla appears to have let it’s guard down, with a Firefox add-on that included a Trojan that could allow remote access to a users PC.
Two add-ons were affected; Master Filer which was infected with a password-stealing Trojan called Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Sothink Web Video Downloader which was infected with a backdoor Trojan called Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose.
Mozilla has issued [...]
In: Chrome
17 Dec 2009With Chrome extensions having been available for one week now, we thought it would be good to take a look at the 10 most popular extensions for the week.
Collectively, these top 10 extensions have almost had just under 500,000 million downloads.
Google Mail Checker
With over 108,000 users, this extension displays the number of unread messages in [...]
In: Chrome
9 Dec 2009With the latest Beta releases of Google Chrome today, Google have also released Extensions Beta.
Available to Beta Chrome users on Windows and Linux (with Mac still in progress), over 300 extensions can be downloaded at today’s launch.
Extensions can let users check their Gmail, translate web pages into different languages, and watch eBay items all without [...]
In: Firefox
22 May 2009Mozilla Labs have released a new project called Jetpack. The project is a “newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play” says Mozilla.
The aim is [...]
In: Fennec
18 May 2009Mozilla has today released Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile. Until now, to use the new mobile browser you needed either a Nokia N800/N810 or an HTC Touch Pro.
This new release worked with Windows Mobile 6 devices and includes new memory management technology (the same used in Firefox), a user interface designed with CSS, and [...]
In: Chrome
14 May 2009With the latest developer build of Google Chrome being released this week (version 2.0.180.0), evidence has surfaced showing that extensions and plug-ins are on their way for the browser.
Release notes show that developers have implemented “extensions window & tabs API events.”
“The extensions posse would like to point out that as of today’s dev channel release, [...]
In: Firefox
7 May 2009After the recent row between developers of the AdBlock Plus and NoScript add-ons for Firefox, Mozilla is considering creating an add-on policy. Mozilla’s proposal follows.
Changes to default home page and search preferences, as well as settings of other installed add-ons, must be related to the core functionality of the add-on. If this relation can be [...]
In: Firefox
5 May 2009A war has broken out between two of Firefox’s most used plug-ins, AdBlock Plus and NoScript, with both scripts trying to out do each other by disabling the others features.
The war started as a result of AdBlock Plus blocking ads in NoScript’s change log window. The change log window is displayed every time NoScript is [...]
In: Chrome
3 Dec 2008Google Chrome is to get the same level of customisation as Mozilla’s Firefox, with a new effort launched to make it possible for developers to create plugins for the popular browser.
Third party applications or addons are attributed to the huge success of Firefox, and is currently the number one most requested feature from Chrome users.
Aaron [...]
In: Firefox
21 Nov 2008Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox web browser, have passed a huge milestone, with over 1 billion add-ons downloaded.
This number is much likely larger, as Mozilla only started tracking downloads in 2005, with add-ons also available from other websites.
Justin Scott from Mozilla says there are about “1.5 million add-on downloads per day and increasing”.
Add-ons are [...]