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OKCupid pulls Firefox boycott letter
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-04-03 00:00
OKCupid has removed a letter that only Firefox users could see asking them to change browsers over the anti-gay marriage politics of Brendan Eich, Mozilla's newly appointed CEO.
Firefox 28 launches, but lacks notable features after Mozilla drops Metro version at 11th hour
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-03-19 01:04
Mozilla has unveiled Firefox 28.0 FINAL for desktop, with Firefox for Android 28.0 also due for release shortly.
The most notable feature in version 28 is a missing one, with Mozilla pulling the planned Firefox for Metro release for Windows 8/RT shortly before shipping. The end result is an underwhelming desktop update overshadowed by the new Android release.
Mozilla claims it’s dropped the Modern UI due to lack of uptake during the beta-testing program, but this has stripped Firefox 28 of any headline-grabbing new features.
Unity's new weapon for devs: Porting games to Firefox
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-03-18 09:23
Mozilla has teamed up with Unity to run its games on the Web without plugins -- but with an add-on.
Announced at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, the extension will ship later this year with the anticipated Unity 5.0. Powered by the Web graphics library WebGL and the JavaScript subset asm.js, the add-on update says more about game developer's faith in Firefox than anything else.
Mozilla shows off $25 Firefox OS smartphone prototype
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-02-24 00:19
While Apple is focused on spreading premium-prices smartphones across the globe, browser maker Mozilla has its sights aimed squarely on the low-cost smartphone market and has announced a deal for a chipset which it said will pave the way for $25 smartphones.
Mozilla announced at Mobile World Congress that it is partnering with Shanghai-based fabless semiconductor company Spreadtrum to come up with reference designs of the low-cost Firefox OS-powered smartphones.
Firefox 27 Delivers Better Security, Performance
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-02-05 06:37
Mozilla today released Firefox 27, giving users of the open-source browser new security features and improved performance.
There are 13 security advisories attached to the Firefox 27 release, four of them ranked as being critical. As is common in nearly all Firefox release updates, one of the critical updates is for a group of vulnerabilities that Mozilla labels "Miscellaneous memory safety hazards."