Firefox gains 30 million users in eight weeks

Mozilla’s open-source Firefox browser has gained 30 million users over the past eight weeks, as it continues to gain on Internet Explorer.

Chief Executive John Lilly revealed the increase in user adoption in a Twitter post on Monday, and Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, confirmed it to ZDNet UK on Tuesday.
“We’ve seen a significant increase [...]

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Chrome extensions arriving in developer version

Support for extensions to customize Chrome, the top-requested feature for Google’s browser, has begun arriving for adventurous users.
Previously, extensions worked only for those who enabled the feature with a command line switch. Now the feature is enabled by default in the developer preview version of Chrome on Windows, Aaron Boodman, the Google engineer who oversees [...]

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Adobe’s default-browser advice worked for me

Since I helped open this particular can of worms, I feel responsible for sharing the latest news about an issue in which Adobe Systems’ software opens Internet Explorer even when Chrome is set as the default browser.
I had a Twitter tirade in January after the umpteenth time that Lightroom showed me the location of a [...]

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New Google toolbar gives Firefox a Chrome look

Google released a second beta of its toolbar software for Firefox that gives the browser a prominent feature of Google’s own Chrome.
In Chrome, when you open a new tab, the browser displays a page with up to nine miniature versions of pages you visit often–a selection of what you’ve shown to be your collective home [...]

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SimilarWeb shows you sites like the one you’re on

I stumbled upon a useful site earlier today that’s worth sharing. Called SimilarWeb, this small Firefox (and soon Internet Explorer) add-on sits on the side of your browser and pulls up sites that are similar to the one you’re currently on.
It works remarkably well–at least with major sites. For example, visiting YouTube brings up a [...]

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