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Mozilla’s head of user experience for its Labs unit, Aza Raskin, on Friday unveiled a new project called “Tab Candy” that promises to dramatically change the way users manage open browser tabs. Tab Candy is not an extension, but a new feature that Raskin and team plan to build into a future version of the [...]

Apple isn’t likely to allow Firefox or any other competing HTML Web browser on its iOS platform anytime soon, but Mozilla’s Firefox Home for iPhone, released to the App Store late last week, does at least bring the heart of the Firefox browser to your iPhone: your URLs.  Before getting into what Firefox Home is, [...]

If you’ve been one of the many clamoring to see Firefox running on an iPhone, you may get your chance–of sorts. Back in late May, Mozilla announced that it would be creating an iPhone version of its Firefox browser. On Wednesday, Mozilla submitted its Firefox Home iPhone app to Apple for testing–and, it hopes, for [...]

If you’ve been following the development of Mozilla’s Firefox browser for Android phones, you might be interested to know that Mozilla has just begun releasing nightly updates of Firefox Mobile (code-name Fennec) for Android. The nightly builds still reflect the early-days pre-alpha version of Fennec like the one we test-drove in April. Needless to say, [...]

What do you get when you take a bunch of mobile browser developers and give them free run of the lab? A preview build of Opera’s Mobile 10 browser running on the Nokia N900 and N800/N810 Internet Tablet. Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia’s open-source Maemo platform sprang to life as a hobbyist’s thrill in the [...]

Since its launch to the public in 2004, Mozilla’s Firefox has steadily spread across the Internet, becoming the second-most-popular Web browser, behind only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Although early versions of Firefox incorporated lots of then-innovative features such as tabbed browsing and a skinnable interface, it was and continues to be its extensions that set it [...]