Mozilla, Gecko Archive

Mozilla has released new versions of its Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email client to fix problems introduced by the previous updates. An update to Camino has also been released.

Asa Dotzler, the community coordinator at the Mozilla Foundation, said Tuesday that he hopes to attract many corporate Windows 2000 users to the Firefox browser, since they will be unable to take advantage of the improvements in IE 7.

The Mozilla Foundation has posted the second alpha edition of its next standalone browser, for now code named "Deer Park". This version now includes an integrated update system that would make it possible to patch the browser with small-sized upgrade files, rather than forcing users to download and reinstall a full version, as is now the case. Screenshot.

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 1.0.5 which addresses several security issues.

When Netscape 8.0 came out a few days ago, I decided to read about its improvements. Well, I was surely surprised when I saw that it gives you the option of rendering "trusted" pages (as to how it determines what to trust, I have no clue) with the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It didn’t take long before this gave me an idea however. I decided to install Netscape on a copy of Windows that did not have IE installed. From there I would see how Netscape ran. As you can tell from this screenshot, I did this with 98lite. Interestingly enough, it turns out that you must have Internet Explorer before you can even install Netscape 8.0!

Even though Internet Explorer is by far the most widely used browser, since 2004 it slowly began losing popularity to other browsers mainly due to security issues. Is Firefox more secure than Internet Explorer? What will the future bring? Read more in this article.

With IE dipping below 90% of usage share mainly because of Firefox, tell us why you like Firefox.

Mozilla released a security fixed version of Firefox, 1.0.4.

OneStat.com today reported that Mozilla's browsers (all Gecko-based browsers except Netscape) have a total global usage share of 8.69 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 0.24 percent since February 2005. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 86,63 percent which is 0.65 percent less as at the end of February.

Mozilla firefox 1.0.3 is out with some security fixes.

Mozilla has just released version 0.8.3 of its Camino browser for Mac OS X, which uses the Gecko browsing engine with a Cocoa user interface. Release notes here.

Even with increased popularity, the Firefox Web browser won't face as many security problems as Internet Explorer, according to the president of the Mozilla Foundation. She also replies to Slashdot questions. And now, Mozilla Firefox market share exceeds 6%.

A PC Magazine story examines the conventional wisdom of Firefox's reputation for security (compared to IE) and finds that it's probably more secure, but that it's not so simple to just say so.

Following up on our earlier mention that the Mozilla foundation was discussing the discontinuation of the Mozilla suite, they announced today that development of the project (code-name: Seamonkey) will be taken up by a community group that is being formed to pick up the baton.