If you're looking to expand the functionality of your browser, look no further than these must-see add-ons for business professionals, social-networking junkees, avid shoppers, and students. CNET ...

Mozilla has touted Firefox 3 as faster and more secure than earlier versions of the open source Web browser. But there’s another reason to look at the browser upgrade: It is highly customizable for ...

As is true of most good software, both Firefox and Thunderbird work pretty well installed with default options. But like most complex tools, a bit of learning and tweaking pays off. While options tabs ...

I was just getting used to the excellent version 4 of Mozilla’s Firefox browser when those wild and crazy coders rolled out version 5 after just three months. Version 4 was a huge leap forward from ...

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 ...

Desktop web browsers have long supported add-ons and extensions that change the user interface, add features, or otherwise change the behavior of the browser. But it’s more rare to find a mobile ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

What just happened? Mozilla's security blog announced this week that it discovered some add-ons were acting maliciously and that it decided to block them. The company estimates some 455,000 users ...

The misbehaving Firefox add-ons were misusing an API that controls how Firefox connects to the internet. Mozilla’s Firefox team has blocked add-ons that were abusing the proxy API in order to prevent ...

On October 25, the development team said that in early June, Firefox discovered add-ons that were misusing the browser's proxy API, used by software to manage how the browser connects to the internet.

Mozilla blocked malicious Firefox add-ons installed by roughly 455,000 users after discovering in early June that they were abusing the proxy API to block Firefox updates. The add-ons (named Bypass ...