Firefox

Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature

The upcoming version might bring tab previews, cookie banner block, and vertical tabs

Software04 Sep 2024 | 36

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

A Firefox fork aimed at power surfers

Software02 Sep 2024 | 84

It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0

Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem

Research09 Aug 2024 | 39

Firefox 128 bumps system requirements for old boxes

Get comfortable, it'll be here for a while

Software11 Jul 2024 | 39

Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit

Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation

Applications24 Jun 2024 | 91

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update

Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar

Software21 Jun 2024 | 40

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising'

Analysis Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes?

Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 49

Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

Browser maker decided not to follow Putin's orders. Well done

Applications14 Jun 2024 | 53

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android

And you now get keyboard navigation in the built-in PDF reader

Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 24

The most 2024 things to do are laying off staff and eyeing up AI – Mozilla's doing both

Firefox Mobile also getting increased attention

Applications14 Feb 2024 | 16

Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?

Opinion Could it have more to do with browser's ever-increasing irrelevance?

Software09 Feb 2024 | 118

Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla

HTTP 301 Moved Permanently

Software09 Feb 2024 | 27

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

Asks why only one Bing ad – the one you see when searching for other browsers – looks like a Windows popup

Applications02 Feb 2024 | 109

Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation

Plus a big change for Linux folks – native .deb packages

Software25 Jan 2024 | 57

Wait, hold on, everyone – Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair

Firefox maker about five years too late

Software25 Jan 2024 | 63

Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way'

Which is all about privacy and encryption, apparently

Applications02 Jan 2024 | 65

Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature

DOM-XSS attacks have become scarce on Google websites since TT debuted

Security21 Dec 2023 | 16

Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121

Latest version of Mozilla's web browser brings something different depending on your machine

Software20 Dec 2023 | 15

Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile

Firefox Android add-ons coming soon

Software03 Nov 2023 | 18

Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox

Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur

Software02 Nov 2023 | 26

Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly

Handle with care, but a native package is still a good sign

Software01 Nov 2023 | 19

Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery

Updated Mozilla's Fakespot acquisition to bear fruit really soon

Software26 Oct 2023 | 25

Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

Comment Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?

Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 113

Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

Can you blame it?

Applications23 Sep 2023 | 67

With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language

It also beats its main rival in some speed tests now

Applications31 Aug 2023 | 51

Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android

Browser has added multi-process support

Software14 Aug 2023 | 17

Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems

Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave.

OSes05 Jul 2023 | 21

Browser extension developers targeted with schemes and scams

They're being asked to sell, or modify, their code – and trust in your favourite add-ons could be a casualty

Software08 Jun 2023 | 3

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up

Applications26 May 2023 | 103

Mozilla so sorry for intrusive Firefox VPN popup ad

'We accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended...'

Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 29

Microsoft deigns to fix five-year-old Defender bug that slowed Firefox

Windows giant would never try to get an unfair Edge over rival, surely

Applications11 Apr 2023 | 21

Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July

Supernova will prove open source project is not dead – just pining for an enormo-revamp

Software14 Feb 2023 | 94

Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule

Updated Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again

Devops07 Feb 2023 | 16

Google, Mozilla to collaborate with Apple on fresh Webkit browser benchmark

The lions shall lie down with the lamb on 'cross-industry' Speedometer v.3

Software19 Dec 2022 | 3

In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity

Opinion One version to bind them all, and in the darkness rock them

Personal Tech19 Dec 2022 | 117

You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108

Don't worry, there are some other improvements thrown in too

Software14 Dec 2022 | 35

Google warns of commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Defender

Meanwhile NSO faces new lawsuit over Pegasus flying onto journalists' phones

Security01 Dec 2022 | 3

Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week

Nightly and Developer Edition users will be able to test the new cruelty

Applications17 Nov 2022 | 13

Mozilla Foundation launches ethical venture capital fund

An unexpected move, but we suspect that Carl Sagan might have approved

Software04 Nov 2022 | 6

Firefox patches Windows 11 Ctrl+C hang, introduces new bug

Copying text now works without issue, so naturally pasting is getting iffy

Software01 Nov 2022 | 7

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

Comment The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still

Columnists24 Oct 2022 | 240

Firefox 106 will let you type directly into browser PDFs

Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly

Software18 Oct 2022 | 86

Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox

Mozilla may seem like it has forgotten, but this is the most customizable browser going

Software26 Sep 2022 | 96

Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

URL query parameters won't work in version 102 of Mozilla's browser

Personal Tech30 Jun 2022 | 48

Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support

Mozilla's messaging client appears to have benefited from sponsor shakeup

Applications30 Jun 2022 | 43

Mozilla opens testing for Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox

Browser makers line up for Google's extension system but complaints persist

Software20 May 2022 | 24

Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100

Kinda sorta. It's out there if you look hard enough

Software03 May 2022 | 101

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla agree on something: Make web dev lives easier

Browser makers set aside differences

Software04 Mar 2022 | 64

Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

Build numbers causing problems: Truly, what is new is old again

Applications17 Feb 2022 | 59

Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline

Outfoxed? Not if you read The Reg

Software18 Jan 2022 | 54

Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google

Oh, Snap

OSes12 Jan 2022 | 84

Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies – but there is an annoying and awkward workaround

El Reg, as ever, helps you to get back in the game

OSes10 Dec 2021 | 77

Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

GitHub: 'Credentials exposed by our users are not in scope'

Security18 Nov 2021 | 27

Is your Apple Mac running macOS Monterey leaking memory? It may be due to mouse cursor customization

Sleuthing leads to suspected RAM-gobbling culprit

OSes17 Nov 2021 | 34

Mozilla sprinkles Firefox Relay with Premium fairy dust

You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you

Security16 Nov 2021 | 1

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Comment Why are some of Moz's axed projects bigger than its flagship?

Software04 Nov 2021 | 147