Mozilla news from FierceCIO

Mozilla Prism has been moved out from Mozilla Labs into beta, which should allow more feedback from regular users. Mozilla Prism allows web applications to run within their own application window.... Read more...

Researchers from the University of California managed to hack into the command-and-control network used by hackers to manage an 180,000 strong botnet. In the short 10 days that they had access to the... Read more...

Mozilla is considering dropping Firefox support for Windows 2000 (Win2K), and the earliest version of Windows XP as it works on the follow up to Firefox 3.5 which will be released next year. One of... Read more...

Fans of the increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox will be glad to know that the roadmap toward the next version of the Internet browser has been unveiled--even before the arrival of the upcoming... Read more...

The final build of Internet Explorer 8 has been announced by Microsoft, and is now available for various platforms including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.... Read more...

Google is seeking to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft that claims the software giant is unfairly trying to stifle the web browsers of competitors. The case, initiated by the... Read more...

Microsoft won the browser battle years ago in competition with Netscape, but the times are changing. Web analytics company, Net Applications reports that visitors are continuing to desert Microsoft's... Read more...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer was not the only browser needing a patch this week. Mozilla patched a total of 13 bugs in the Firefox browser, with a large number--almost half--of them listed as... Read more...

Beta 2 of Mozilla Firefox 3.1, which incorporates the faster TraceMonkey JavaScript engine as default, was finally made available earlier this week. Beyond the additional support for emerging web... Read more...

Internet Explorer's market shares dipped below 70 percent for the first time in the wake of the launch of Google's Chrome web browser, and slightly better showings for Apple's Safari and Mozilla's... Read more...