Mozilla has touted Firefox 3 as faster and more secure than earlier versions of the open source Web browser. But there’s another reason to look at the browser upgrade: It is highly customizable for ...

If you're looking to expand the functionality of your browser, look no further than these must-see add-ons for business professionals, social-networking junkees, avid shoppers, and students. CNET ...

I was just getting used to the excellent version 4 of Mozilla’s Firefox browser when those wild and crazy coders rolled out version 5 after just three months. Version 4 was a huge leap forward from ...

Move over, RockMelt. You don’t need a dedicated social networking browser to stay überconnected. Here are 10 Firefox add-ons (all compatible with the latest ...

Mozilla will add a new lockdown feature to Firefox 3.6 that will prevent developers from sneaking add-ons into the program, the company said. The new feature, which Mozilla dubbed “component directory ...

Firefox Chief Technology Officer Eric Rescorla has written a detailed blog post explaining exactly how the browser's add-ons came to break all at once last week, how it was fixed, and how the company ...

The misbehaving Firefox add-ons were misusing an API that controls how Firefox connects to the internet. Mozilla’s Firefox team has blocked add-ons that were abusing the proxy API in order to prevent ...

What just happened? Mozilla's security blog announced this week that it discovered some add-ons were acting maliciously and that it decided to block them. The company estimates some 455,000 users ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Mozilla blocked malicious Firefox add-ons installed by roughly 455,000 users after discovering in early June that they were abusing the proxy API to block Firefox updates. The add-ons (named Bypass ...