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    After posting its first decline in market share since launch in July, only to recover in August, Mozilla's Firefox browser saw its share of the browser market drop again in September, according to one monitoring firm.

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    The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming - not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE.

  • Firefox eyes new markets

    The coals are still hot from Tuesday morning's Firefox 1.0 release, but the Mozilla Foundation is already cooking up its next moves to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dominance.

  • Firefox marks its first year on the Net

    Firefox turned one year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser.

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    Open source application maker Mozilla has said the latest major release of its Firefox browser will be ready for download on 17 June.

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    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

  • Mozilla: More bugs mean Firefox is more secure

    The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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    Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.

  • Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

    After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. Additional reading: IE is evolving, but is it enough?

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    The new version of Internet Explorer will include tabbed browsing but will this be enough to entice Firefox users to convert?

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    At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser. She also discusses how the new, open platform will encourage Web 2.0 application development.

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    This free app has more features than the most recent version of Internet Explorer.

  • Firefox 3

    If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.

  • Browser faceoff: IE vs Firefox vs Opera vs Safari

    Web 2.0, with its complex sites and rich Ajax applications, is an increasingly demanding platform for a browser. In this review feature, we look at how the leading browsers measure up.

  • Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

    After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. Additional reading: IE is evolving, but is it enough?

  • IE7 gets tabs but does it matter?

    The new version of Internet Explorer will include tabbed browsing but will this be enough to entice Firefox users to convert?

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