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The current version of Firefox will likely be the end of the road for people using PowerPC Macs. A final decision will be based on usage data that’s better than what Mozilla possesses right now, but technical difficulties raised by Firefox 4 improvements mean at a minimum that it’s a strong possibility only Intel-based Macs [...]

Mozilla released its fourth beta of Firefox 4 on Tuesday, bringing a new feature that addresses one of the biggest challenges in the new era of the browser: reclaiming control over the burgeoning number of tasks that now happen on the Web. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 4 beta 4 introduces a feature [...]

Software developers for Windows and Mac computers will be able to get their hands on a software developer’s kit (SDK) that will put Skype’s VoIP calling features into almost any app. On Wednesday, Skype is offering a limited, invite-only beta release of the SDK, called SkypeKit, to those who request it. SkypeKit beta will work [...]

Ten months after it debuted rudimentary malware scanning in Snow Leopard, Apple last week quietly added a signature for a third piece of malware, security researchers reported. According to U.K-based antivirus vendor Sophos and U.S. Mac security company Intego, Mac OS X 10.6.4, which Apple released last week, includes an update to XProtect. [ Master [...]

Mainstream microprocessors have been 64-bit for years. Operating systems have followed suit. Now it’s time for a program used by hundreds of millions of people to make the leap: Firefox. Programmer Armen Zambrano Gasparnian announced the first 64-bit Firefox builds for Windows on Friday, offering an FTP site for those who want to download it. [...]

A few days ago, Chrome turned 6. Version 6, that is, though only on the developer preview channel. The move doesn’t mean a radical new version of Google’s browser is available to test–the changes over the 5.0 series are pretty minor, chiefly reflecting the fact that a new branch has sprouted from Chrome’s source-code tree. [...]

Mozilla wants its Firefox browser to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4–the operating system also known as Tiger that was released in 2005–but the plan is running into some resistance. If support is indeed removed, then Firefox 3.6–the current version of the browser–would be the last one to support Mac OS X 10.4, although [...]

Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox. Mozilla stopped supporting Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, in September 2009, but left a large amount of Tiger bits in the development code. Now, said Josh Aas, a platform engineer for Mozilla who [...]

In its 15th month of public existence, Google’s Chrome browser surpassed Safari for share of worldwide usage in December. Chrome jumped from 3.9 percent to 4.6 percent of usage, according to statistics that analytics firm Net Applications publishes based on the 160 million monthly visitors to the network of Web sites using its services. Safari [...]

Mozilla, racing to release Firefox 3.6 by the end of the year, issued a fifth, and likely final, beta version of the new browser. The open-source browser backer announced the new Firefox beta (download for Windows and Mac OS X) in a blog announcement Thursday. Firefox 3.6 builds in a feature called Personas for customizing [...]