The Firefox web browser for Android has offered a way to “install” web apps from Firefox Marketplace for a while. But up until now that just meant you’d see a shortcut on your home screen and when you ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Firefox OS, the new, HTML5-friendly mobile OS from Mozilla, is today taking a big step forward in its strategy to become a viable third player in the smartphone landscape currently dominated by Google ...

TraceMonkey will speed JavaScript applications dramatically, making browsing snappier and opening new horizons for Web applications, the open-source developer promises. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Mozilla's Firefox OS is based on Gecko-- the same core rendering engine that its desktop and mobile Firefox web browsers use. This unified framework goes to the essence of what Firefox and Mozilla are ...

The official version of the web browser Firefox 143 has been released. The Windows version now supports the 'Web App' feature, which allows you to run websites like desktop apps. It also adds a number ...

We’ve known for some time now that Firefox 18 would bring some significant speed improvements to Mozilla’s popular browser, and the final version—released today—made good on that promise officially.

"We're taking [the Web] to mobile" announced Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, talking about the company's Firefox OS vision. This might come as a surprise to anyone ...

Mozilla today announced the Firefox OS App Manager, a new developer tool that will ship with Firefox 26. It is designed to help developers build and debug Firefox OS apps, either in the Simulator or ...

Need to share a file with someone? You could just attach it to an email and fire it off, provided it's not too large to send. Sharing big files requires a little extra effort, and making sure they're ...

Programmers who may be curious about building mobile apps but aren’t sure how to get started could get a hand from Mozilla, which is testing a new code editor, called WebIDE, which will be built into ...

Mozilla Tuesday unveiled a Web application that speeds Firefox customization by offering users several sets of pre-selected add-ons. Dubbed “Fashion Your Firefox,” the online application provides nine ...