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How to Enable Zoom Pinch on Firefox in a MacBook
Opposing Views / 5/11/13
MacBook laptops with a multi-touch trackpad support two-finger pinch gestures to zoom in and out of Web pages in Mozilla Firefox. Some versions of the browser starting with version 4, however, disable this feature by default. Firefox doesn't provide an option ...

Load programs right from within Firefox
Ghacks Technology News / 5/11/13
It adds the option to Firefox to load any program from the underlying operating system with a single click of the mouse button. Once you have installed the extension in the browser you will notice that it adds its icon automatically to Firefox's add-ons bar.

Stable Firefox for Modern UI due in the fall
The Tech Report, LLC / 5/10/13
A new addition to a Mozilla Wiki noted that the browser will be completed Oct. 2, 2013, at the earliest, or nearly a year after the launch of Windows 8. But the project could be delayed until March 20, 2014. The most probable finish date—based on programming ...

Mozilla offers developers phones to write Firefox OS apps
CNET / 5/10/13
Mozilla offers developers phones to write Firefox OS apps. The open-source browser maker is trying to coax programmers into writing software for the Firefox Marketplace by offering them free phones. Stephen Shankland. by Stephen Shankland. May 10 ...

Hardware accelerated H.264 playback coming to Firefox 23
Ghacks Technology News / 5/9/13
Mozilla will release Firefox 21 next Tuesday and with it comes H.264 support to the browser, or at least some users of it as it depends on which operating system Firefox is run on. If Windows 7 or newer is the operating system of choice, H.264 playback will be ...

Best case, Mozilla's Firefox for Windows 8 will ship in October
Computerworld Australia / 5/9/13
A new addition to a Mozilla wiki noted that the browser will be completed Oct. 2, 2013, at the earliest, or nearly a year after the launch of Windows 8. But the project could be delayed until March 20, 2014. The most probable finish date -- based on programming ...

Firefox for Windows 8 expected to go final this October, but could be delayed
WinBeta / 5/9/13
Mozilla has revealed today that its Firefox for Windows 8 browser will likely finish development by October 2013, but it could see a delay until March of 2014. If all goes well, the Metro/Modern version of Firefox has taken an entire year to be released when ...

Google looks to spark iOS browser war with OpenInChrome function
Apple Insider / 5/8/13
Google looks to spark iOS browser war with OpenInChrome function. By Kevin Bostic. Google looks to be attempting to grow its mini-ecosystem on Apple's iOS platform, as the search giant is now enticing developers to have their apps open web links in its Chrome browser. chromed out. Google on ... Google's Chrome browser debuted to some degree of popularity, but the inability to set it as a default browsing app on iOS has relegated the browser to a very distant second place to Apple's Safari among iOS browsers.

IE 10 doubles its share of desktop browser market
CNET / 5/1/13
... desktop browser market. The latest version of IE now claims 6 percent of the browser desktop market, according to Net Applications. ... Among the rival browsers in general, IE holds the overall lead with almost 56 percent of the market. Firefox takes second ...

IE10 Doubles Share of Browser Market
Datamation / 5/1/13
NetApplications has published its browser market statistics for April, and the big story is that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its market share. IE remained most popular desktop browser, while Apple's Safari continued its reign as the most ...

UCWeb eyes top spot in Indian mobile browser market
Times of India / 4/24/13
China-based mobile internet browser company UCWeb today said it aims to become the number one mobile browser in the country by the end of this year. "We currently hold more than 25% of market share of the mobile browser market in India. We aim to ...

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with ...
TechSpot / 4/4/13
But with Google controlling a majority of the browser market share on desktop and mobile combined -- 38% according to StatCounter -- maybe they feel confident enough to part ways with Apple. There's still work to be done before that can happen, however.