Firefox

Create a Beautiful Bookmarks Bar of Favicons

Here’s a simple hack for your browser that can improve the appearance of your standard bookmarks bar and give you room for more links at the same time. By limiting the sites you save to just their favicons, you can create a row of instantly recognizable shortcuts that’s always to hand. Here’s how to do…

Users Didn’t Like Mozilla’s New-Tab Ads (So It’s Trying ‘Em Again)

Back in February, Mozilla announced that it was going to trial promotional tiles in its ‘new tab’ page. Now, the company has revealed that the idea “didn’t go over well” with users—but it will try again anyway. In a blog post, Mozilla VP Jonathan Nightingale says “A lot of our community found the language [them]…

Firefox’s Customizable (And Chrome-Like) Redesign Is Available Now

Mozilla just released a pretty extensive new Firefox redesign, with cleaned up visuals and some great new features. It looks pretty different from the old Firefox—and rather similar to Google Chrome—with some deep customization options and nice integration between desktop and mobile browsers. This newest Firefox browser (version 29) puts add-ons in a quick-access menu,…

Just days after OKCupid called out Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich over his support of a ban on gay marraige, Mozilla announced today that Eich “has chosen to step down.” [Mozilla via Re/code]

Why You Can’t Build a Smartphone

Every day or so I read another blog post (or ranting comments) about how BlackBerry could be rehabilitated, or how Nokia could restart Maemo and build the ultimate smartphone again. Things came to a head after Jolla announced their first phone for sale. Surely this phone with an amazing user interface will vindicate the N9?!…

Mozilla Doesn’t Plan to Launch the Firefox Phone in the US

Bad news if you’ve had your heart set on a Mozilla phone ever since they announced the Firefox handsets: the company has admitted that it has no plans to launch the device in the US. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-zte-open-the-first-official-firefox-os-phone-5986525 Speaking to CNET, Mozilla exec Mitchell Baker explained that the decision to ignore the US is so that it…

Is Mozilla brewing up a Chromecast competitor? This picture shared by employee Mark Finkle, showing tab mirroring from Firefox to a Roku, might hint at such plans. [Google+ via Engadget]

iCloud for Windows now lets you sync bookmarks between your iOS devices and the Windows versions of Chrome and Firefox. Useful!

Firefox 23 has finally axed support for the “blink” HTML tag, joining the likes of Chrome, Safari and Opera. Bye bye, blink text, we’ll miss you. Kinda.

What The Most Popular Web Browser Is in Each Country in the World

The green is Chrome. The blue is Internet Explorer. The orange-ish color is Firefox. If you can see any red or grey that would be Opera and Safari, respectively. And though I personally believe all browsers have become horrible in their own ways, having Chrome at the top of most country’s usage list according to…

The first ever Mozilla Firefox OS phone goes on sale tomorrow for $90 in… Spain. With any luck, it’ll hit the US in the coming months.

Geeksphone’s first Firefox phone for developers goes on sale today. Are you going to buy one?

Ain’t no Firefox coming back to iOS anytime soon. Sorry! [CNET]

This Is Firefox OS in Action

Firefox OS won’t be coming to the U.S. until 2014, and chances are that its rather budget approach is not for you, dear gadget-obsessed Gizmodo reader. But Firefox OS burst onto the scene today at Mobile World Congress with announcements of new, upcoming handsets, and a global roll-out plan. It’s poised to bring smartphone goodness…

Firefox 19 officially launches later today—but if you’re desperate, you can download it now from Mozilla’s FTP server.

This Is the First Official Firefox Phone (But It’s Just for Developers)

Mozilla has just announced a Developer Preview Phone that will come sporting its new, in-development Firefox OS. It has basic specs, is just for developers and looks… very, very orange. It features a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon S1 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, WiFi, and a 3-megapixel camera. Like we say, basic.…

Firefox 18 now has retina display support and a speed bump for web apps. [Mozilla Blog]

Sorry if you use the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows: Mozilla has announced that it’s being scrapped. [Mozilla]

One Day After Launch, Firefox 16 Is Pulled Over Security Risk

One day after Firefox 16 was made available, Mozilla has had to pull the software over security fears. If you upgraded, you might want to roll back until it’s fixed. https://gizmodo.com/firefox-16-arrives-today-and-you-probably-wont-notice-5950236 Mozilla says the software is “temporarily removed” which suggests the flaw is reasonably serious. In a blog post, Mozilla explains: “The vulnerability could allow…

Firefox 16 arrives today! And you probably won’t notice the difference, unless you’re a dev. [TechCrunch]