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Firefox World’s Most Popular Browser

Site tracking and analytics tool StatCounter Global Statistics now shows that Firefox 3.5 is the most used browser in the world.

Note this is the version of the browser rather than the browser brand but nevertheless an incredible achievement. The browser surpasses IE7 as the most popular browser, with IE8 close behind thanks to the success of Windows 7.

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Mozilla thinks mobile Firefox will kill app stores

The big problem facing developers today is that each mobile app store is unique. Apple's App Store requires one SDK, Android, another, and so on and so forth. Why is there no uniform platform to make developer's lives easier? Why can't someone just develop a single application and then allow all mobile devices to use it?

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Firefox, Adobe top buggiest-software list

Firefox was the application that had the most reported vulnerabilities this year, while holes in Adobe Reader more than tripled from a year ago, according to statistics compiled by Qualys, a vulnerability management provider.
Qualys tallied 102 vulnerabilities that were found in Firefox this year, up from 90 last year. The numbers are based on running totals in the National Vulnerability Database.

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Bing is not popular enough for Firefox

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, explains why an add-on is required to add Bing as a search option from within Firefox.
If you download a fresh copy of Firefox, you'll note that the default search engine is not whatever you already have picked in all your other browsers. Instead, Mozilla chooses Firefox's default search engine, and the list of search providers in the accompanying drop down menu, based on their popularity. Thus, Bing isn't one of the choices.

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Linda Goin Joins the World of WordPress

These days WordPress popularity is growing rapidly. It becomes one of the most common blog and CMS systems. What started as just a blogging systems, now has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes.

Starting this week Linda Goin will answer some major questions regarding WordPress.

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The Real Google Phone Coming in January

It’s been confirmed that Google has been building a phone that they will be self-branded, and for sale by themselves. Google has given a truck load of these phones to Googlers so they can “eat their own dogfood” before giving it to the general public — smart.

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Universal CSS Navigation Menu to be Updated Tomorrow!

WOW! Our developers got so excited by your fantastic feedback about our Universal CSS Navigation Menu that they have doubled its functionality and are eager to share more details. Here's a list with the amazing new features that will be included in the tomorrow update!

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Mobile Firefox RC coming as early as next week

Though nary but a few screenshots have been shown of it outside of a few alpha builds released months ago, the words “Mobile Firefox” are enough to get most geeks a bit hot around the collar.

The wait is almost over – for some, at least. Sometime next week, we can expect to get our first real taste of what Mozilla’s got cooking, as they plan to wrap up their first release candidate. Alas, it won’t be launching on a platform that most will have access to.

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Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.


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Microsoft Azure, Server Teams form New Cloud Division

Microsoft announced the combination of the Windows Azure group with the Windows Server and Solutions group into a new organization, titled the Server and Cloud Division. The new division, headed by Senior Vice President Amitabh Srivastava, will be a part of the Servers and Tools Business, headed by Bob Muglia.

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