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• Five tips to make your Facebook Timeline amazing

  By Ian Paul | 10 February, 2012 01:59

  Facebook Timeline currently is rolling out to all users worldwide, and--whether you like it or not--the new default profile layout will be hitting your Facebook account in the coming weeks.

• Chrome 15 Beats Out IE8 As World's Most Popular Browser

  By Ian Paul | 16 December, 2011 01:41

  Google Chrome 15 is the most popular web browser in the world overtaking Internet Explorer 8, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival for the first time between November 21 and 27 with 23.63 percent of the global browser market share compared to IE8's 23.5 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 8 trailed behind at a distant third with 12.12 percent of worldwide usage during the same time period.

• yARN: Browser woes - what to use on a Mac?

  By Stephen Withers | 07 October, 2011 16:12

  Choosing a browser to use on a Mac used to be simple, but it’s not any more.

• Firefox 7 seekers warned to beware of bogus website

  By John P. Mello, Jr. | 29 September, 2011 05:20

  If you're using a search engine today to find a download of Firefox 7, be careful about the results you click on. That's because a dubious website called Firefox7.org appears high up in those results.

• Email This! Firefox Add-on

  By Preston Gralla | 29 September, 2011 07:38

  Nifty, free Firefox add-on Email this! is great for anyone who wants to share Web page URLs with others via email software. When you're on a Web page whose URL you want to share with someone, click a button, and the add-in launches your default email client--whether it's a desktop mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook, or Web-based one, such as Gmail--creates a new mail message, and inserts the URL into the body of the message, and the title of the page into the subject line. At that point all you need to do is fill in the recipient's address, type in any message you want, and send off your email.

• Seven good reasons to upgrade to Firefox 7

  By Katherine Noyes | 28 September, 2011 03:45

  Six weeks to the day after the official release of Firefox 6, Mozilla on Tuesday rolled out Firefox 7, the next version of its popular Web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android users.

• IN PICTURES: The big, bad browser quiz

  By Tim Greene | 02 September, 2011 11:42

  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them?

• 10 Social Networking Add-Ons for Firefox

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 31 August, 2011 23:52

  Move over, RockMelt. You don't need a dedicated social networking browser to stay überconnected. Here are 10 Firefox add-ons (all compatible with the latest version of Firefox) that will turn your browser into a social butterfly.

• First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

  By Peter Wayner | 09 July, 2010 05:22

  While it's impossible to sum up the thousands of enhancements and bug fixes both big and small, the Firefox 4 beta version brings the browser that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop. There are fewer reasons for anyone to interact with an extra plug-in or the operating system. Remember when people cared about whether a machine was Windows or Mac or a Commodore 64? Remember when software needed to be written in native code? Those days are fading away quickly as the browser is more able than ever before to deliver most of the content we might want.

• 55 super software secrets

  By Patrick Miller | 24 June, 2010 00:23

  The apps you use most--your Web browser, productivity tools, media managers, and Windows and its built-in accessories--are more powerful than you realize. They are loaded with unpublicized features that make your PC easier to use, they respond to superquick keyboard shortcuts that you've never heard about, and they support add-ons and plug-ins that can shave minutes or even hours off of mundane daily chores.

• Google's Chrome tops Safari: Is Firefox next?

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2010 08:22

  Google Chrome hit a milestone over the weekend when it became the third-most popular browser after Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, according to metrics firm Net Applications. It controls just 4.63 percent of the browser market, but Chrome has made significant inroads against competing browsers, such as the former bronze medalist Apple Safari.

• Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

  By Preston Gralla and Michael DeAgonia | 14 October, 2009 05:06

  For browser fans, this is the best of times.

• Firefox 3.5 can still learn from its competition

  By Michael Scalisi | 04 July, 2009 03:13

  While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability.

• Mozilla to designers: Help us build better Firefox tabs

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 18 May, 2009 09:51

  Mozilla Labs is challenging Web designers to help it find a more innovative way to represent browser tabs.

• How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names

  By Thomas Wailgum | 13 November, 2008 10:25

  Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult--to say the least.