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For those who never used it, Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synchronized your bookmarks, web history, browser sessions and passwords across multiple computers by temporarily saving them to Google’s servers. According to the Google Browser Sync team: ‘It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. [...]

The feature, Private Browsing, would have disabled all caching, cookie downloads, history records, and form data used during the current session. In essence, you could surf the Web and leave no fingerprints. “It basically said to the browser: I would like what I’m about to do to not be logged anywhere,” said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla’s [...]

Firefox boosted its share by 0.6% in May, accounting for 18.4% of the browsers used during the month and putting it within shouting distance of a major milestone, according to Net Applications Inc. “Firefox is trending to hit 20% market share sometime in July,” said Vince Vizzaccaro, the company’s executive vice president of marketing, in [...]

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla’s finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so it’s time to spotlight the [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve been playing around with the beta releases of Firefox 3.0. The new version of the open source browser is better-looking, uses less memory, and feels snappier all around. There’s just one problem: Every time they release a new beta version, some of your extensions and add-ons are bound to stop [...]

I had an interesting discussion today about Firefox with Mozilla’s Mike Schroepfer and Mike Beltzner. One of the things we drilled into a bit was the address bar in Firefox 3 (download). It’s being called the “awesome bar” at Mozilla, and while it will end up with an official name eventually (the “smart location bar”), [...]

Apple Inc.’s ploy to gain browser market share by pushing Safari to users with an update tool normally used for security fixes failed to boost its overall share, a Web metrics company said yesterday. Instead, Safari’s share fell last month to 5.5%, down from March’s 5.8%, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer increased its dominance by growing [...]

TechCrunch noted Thursday that Mozilla was about to celebrate its 500 millionth download of Firefox, the open source browser that has made inroads into Microsoft’s dominant market share. By this morning, the official Spread Firefox site was claiming an additional 340,000 downloads, putting it over the half billion mark. That’s an impressive download rate — [...]

With the release today of beta 3 of Firefox 3, we are definitely getting closer to the final release of Mozilla’s open source web browser. But for a third beta this version of Firefox 3 includes some fairly significant changes from the previous betas, including changes to the main user interface of the browser. By [...]