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5Words: Firefox is Five–and Vulnerable

Monday, November 9, 2009

Happy birthday, Firefox! You’re vulnerable! Firefox: the good, the bad. NVidia won’t take on Intel. Hey, where’s TweetDeck for iPhone? Google invests in mobile advertising. Android’s app storage problem continues. AT&T’s faster laptop broadband adapter. Will Google take on Skype? Shazam launches a paid app. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Five Reasons to Celebrate Firefox’s Fifth Birthday

Monday, November 9, 2009

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Mozilla’s Firefox 1.0 officially became available on November 9th, 2004–which means that the Little Browser That Could officially turns five today. It’s not the world’s dominant browser–while market share estimates vary widely, all show that Internet Explorer still has a sizable lead–but it’s surely the most beloved browser on the planet. (It’s definitely the dominant browser in [...]

Should Browsers Block Ads by Default?

Friday, August 7, 2009

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[UPDATE: There's a great conversation spurred by this post going on over at Louis Gray's FriendFeed.] Windows IT Pro’s Orin Thomas has a piece up with the title In five years will block Internet advertisements by default. He isn’t quite that extreme in the story itself, but he does say that he thinks the popularity of [...]

Ten More Super-Duper Firefox Add-Ons

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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I love it when you write and pass along handy ideas. After I wrote about my favorite Firefox enhancers, I received hundreds of messages (okay, 50, but who’s counting) sharing other Firefox add-ons, extensions, and tips–and I’m successfully using many of them. Here are some of the most useful of the bunch. But first some advice. The [...]

Seven Tools for Making Firefox Jump Through Hoops

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Clear the decks, I’m now an avid Firefox user. It took me a long time to give up my treasured Maxthon, an Internet Explorer shell that I truly loved. When Maxthon was first released, it had features years before they were added to IE8–tabs, multi-threading, groups, add-ons — things the kids at Microsoft should have [...]

5Words for Wednesday, July 1st 2009

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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4.7 million Firefox 3.5 downloads. Twitter tweaks follower, following pages. New iPhone Sykpe Skype: no notifications. Sony iPod dock costs $1000. Energizer’s USB clip charges batteries. iPhone copy and paste: incredible! The Walkman turns 30 today. Dell netbook gets GPS navigation. iPhone notification system isn’t perfect. Remember the Milk gets notifications.

Who’s Using What on Technologizer?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Writing about Firefox 3.5 got me wondering: What’s the breakdown of browser usage on Technologizer right now? So I looked it up, courtesy of Google Analytics. Over the last month, 50 percent of visitors have come via Firefox. Twenty-one percent have used IE, sixteen percent Safari, seven percent Chrome, two percent Opera, and four percent something [...]

Firefox 3.5: The Technologizer Review

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Was it really fewer than five years ago that Firefox 1.0 debuted? Its arrival ended the dismal period in which only one browser–Microsoft’s mediocre Internet Explorer–seemed to be viable. With Firefox, Mozilla proved that millions of people were itching to adopt a better browser. And today, we find ourselves with multiple better browsers: Not just [...]

5Words for Monday, June 22nd 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Are you using Firefox 3.5? Firefox 3.5 is almost done. AT&T and Apple’s closed Web. How not to use Twitter. 3.0? On most iPhones, no. Your ringtone is a performance. Two Engadgeteers review Nokia’s N97. Fake Steve Jobs has returned. FCC to target blogger freebies? Google works on machine vision.

Google Makes Chrome Speed Boost Boast. Who’s Next?

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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Google is boasting that an update to Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine and Webkit browsing component has yielded a significant improvement in performance. Yippee. Now, who’s next? The renewed browser war resembles more of a game of leapfrog than the big-bang releases of the 1990’s when one version of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator could change the [...]

Flock Gets Even More Social, Contemplates Its Future

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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There was a time when I called Flock, the Mozilla-based browser with a social bent, my favorite Web browser. Lately, however, I’ve flitted from browser to browser–it’s not unusual for me to use Firefox, Chrome, IE 8, and Safari in the course of a given day–and have found myself drifting away from Flock. But the [...]

5News for May 18th, 2009

Monday, May 18, 2009

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How’s your Monday so far? Napster launches a $5 service. What’s with the oldest Twitterer? Iomega updates external hard drives. Microsoft patents the magic wand. Windows 7’s virtual Wi-Fi adapters. Walmart ramps up electronics sections. Firefox 3.5 due in June. Trying to buy Verizon’s MiFi, RealDVD headed for legal oblivion?

5Words for May 13th, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Sorry, Twitter, you goofed here… Twitter tweaks @replies, dumbs down. Firefox: beating IE in 2013? Twitter vs. Fake Kanye West. Google’s Japanese photos: take two! Verizon tippytoes out of landlines. Microsoft patches up PowerPoint holes. Intel is out $1.45 billion. Early Windows Mobile 7 details?

War of the Firefox Extension Developers

Monday, May 4, 2009

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Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul has posted a good piece on an alarming story: The developers of two popular and useful Firefox extensions, NoScript and AdBlock Plus, descended into an ugly squabble that involved each one attempting to interfere with the other’s operation–and which eventually led to NoScript having secret features designed to futz around with [...]

5Words for April 28th, 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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I want 100-mbps Internet! Cablevision: 100-mbps for $100. Microsoft tests Twitter for emergencies. Survey: iPhones are primarily personal. Google News comes to you? Apple’s doing something with chips. Dell’s touch desktop available stateside. New Firefox 3.5 beta available. New HP laptops for business. How Microsoft should virtualize XP. GE’s 100-DVD disc technology.

5Words for April 22nd, 2009

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Here’s what’s up this morning: How the CIA uses spyware. iSuppli tears down the Kindle. Embedded broadband for new Macs? Crooks want old Nokia phone. Firefox fixes twelve security holes. New OLPC uses Via CPU. Pleo maker files for bankruptcy. A Blu-Ray player for cars. Oprah fans pour onto Twitter. Second Life’ red-light districts.