Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent

Mozilla has published its financial statements for 2007, which reveal that the organization brought in $75 million. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker says that Firefox's broader user base and expanded geographical reach are signs of success.

November 19, 2008 - 10:05PM CT - by Ryan Paul

First extensions arrive for mobile Firefox browser

Mozilla has launched a new section at the addons.mozilla.org web site to accommodate extensions that are developed for the Fennec mobile browser.

November 05, 2008 - 06:33PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Mozilla's Fennec browser ported to Windows Mobile

Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser has been ported to Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform and scores higher than Opera Mobile 9.51 on the Acid 3 test. Mozilla is also porting its new high-performance JavaScript engine to work on ARM devices.

October 11, 2008 - 10:56PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Extreme JavaScript Performance

SquirrelFish Extreme is an amalgam of improvements to the JavaScript engine that powers WebKit, made over the course of the last couple months, combined with a brand new form of property caching and a just-in-time compilation.

October 07, 2008 - 02:30AM CT - by John Resig

A week of Chrome: Google's browser gets 7% share at Ars

Ars looks at how Google Chrome market share has fared since the browser's launch last week. It got off to a strong start and has gained a modest following, but is nowhere close to displacing other major players yet.

September 10, 2008 - 08:45AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows

After Google's recent release of the WebKit-based Chrome browser, some of our readers have been wondering if Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine is still relevant. Ars takes a close look at Gecko and WebKit and explains why Gecko will continue to put the fire in Firefox.

September 09, 2008 - 01:30AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin

Mozilla is developing a plugin for Internet Explorer that will add support for the HTML5 Canvas element. Microsoft's attempts to stifle adoption of open web standards could soon be circumvented by plugins that bring Firefox technology to Internet Explorer.

August 19, 2008 - 08:28AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Four things that need fixing to secure the future of the web

The OpenAjax Alliance is assembling a list of popular feature requests for emerging web technologies and encouraging participants to vote on their favorites. Ars takes a close look at four of the most intriguing feature requests and their existing implementations in Firefox, Safari, and Opera.

July 01, 2008 - 09:05AM CT - by Ryan Paul

20 million Firefox 3 downloads in a week, ~4% market share

Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser has been downloaded over 20 million times in the first week after its launch. Firefox 3 by itself now has almost 4 percent market share.

June 26, 2008 - 07:10AM CT - by Ryan Paul

A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1

The first Firefox 3 release candidate has been released and is now available for download. This tantalizing taste of Firefox 3 is stable enough for widespread use, but there are still a few more bugs that have to be resolved before the official release.

May 19, 2008 - 07:20PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Hands on: Opera 9.5 beta 2 improves speed, adds features

Opera has released Beta 2 of the 9.5 version of their web browser, and we've taken a quick tour to see what's in store. First impressions? It's faaaaaast.

April 28, 2008 - 08:45AM CT - by Jeremy Reimer

All the rage in Europe: Firefox market share climbs higher

Month by month, Firefox continues to make gains in Europe, where the browser approaches a 50 percent market share in some countries. Firefox also has stronger usage on weekends, when people get to use the browser of their choice.

April 27, 2008 - 06:58PM CT - by Ryan Paul

When in Rome: engineering the Firefox 3 user experience

Ars sat down with Mozilla user design expert Alex Faaborg and discussed the Firefox 3 visual refresh. Among other things, he told us how Mozilla is improving platform integration in theming while defining a universal visual identity for the Firefox browser.

March 30, 2008 - 08:13PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Safari on Windows: decidedly not illegal (plus, font fixes!)

It's being widely reported this morning that Safari on Windows is "illegal." This is completely false, but we understand why outlets are reporting this. Also, here's how to nuke those fuzzy fonts.

March 27, 2008 - 09:15AM CT - by Ken Fisher

Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera

Benchmarks show that Firefox 3 uses less memory than Internet Explorer 7 and Opera. A number of significant fixes and improvements have brought down the open-source browser's memory footprint and could make it a more viable choice in mobile environments.

March 17, 2008 - 10:05AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Firefox share up over 20% in Europe, mostly at expense of IE

The open-source Firefox web browser continues to gain market share in Europe at Internet Explorer's expense. It's the browser of choice for over one-quarter of European web surfers, according to French metrics firm XiTi.

January 29, 2008 - 11:30AM CT - by Ryan Paul

First HTML 5 working draft arrives from W3C

The W3C HTML working group has published a major draft of the HTML 5 specification, which includes significant features like client-side persistent storage and server-sent events.

January 22, 2008 - 11:10PM CT - by Ryan Paul

The future is bright: Mozilla revenues up 26 percent, Google deal is gold

Mozilla's most recently published financial statements reveal that the company brought in $66.8 million in 2006. Most of that cash came from a single source: Google.

October 24, 2007 - 09:25AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Web 2-point-Yoda: Ended these browser wars have?

According to Microsoft, Google, Opera, and Mozilla, the "browser wars" have come to an end. The next battle will be over what can run inside the browser, but we're not so sure everyone is ready to kiss and hug just yet.

April 18, 2007 - 09:05AM CT - by Matt Mondok

Opera releases 9.2 browser, adds "Speed Dial"

Opera has released the latest version of its desktop web browser. We'll take a quick test drive of 9.2 and see how well its new "Speed Dial" feature works.

April 12, 2007 - 12:13PM CT - by Jeremy Reimer