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Firefox Articles & Reviews

Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO   Storage   2023-08-22
Firefox 83 vs. Chrome 87 On Intel Tiger Lake + AMD Renoir Under Linux   Software   2020-11-29
Benchmarking Firefox 83 Nightly With "Warp" Against Google Chrome On Linux   Software   2020-09-30
Firefox 77 / 78 Beta vs. Chrome 83 Linux Browser Benchmarks   Software   2020-06-08
Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME   Software   2020-04-20
X.Org vs. Wayland Browser Performance With Firefox + Chrome   Software   2020-04-10
Firefox 73 + Firefox 74 Beta Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   Software   2020-02-12
Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Browser Performance On Ubuntu Linux With AMD Ryzen   Software   2020-02-06
Chrome 79 Is Running Past Firefox 72 Performance On Linux   Software   2020-01-08
Benchmarking Mozilla's Firefox Performance Over The Past Two Years   Software   2019-12-13
Firefox vs. Chrome Browser Performance On Intel Ice Lake + Power/Memory Usage Tests   Software   2019-11-16
The Firefox + Chrome Web Browser Performance Impact From Intel's JCC Erratum Microcode Update   Software   2019-11-13
Firefox 70 Linux Performance, Firefox 70 vs. Chrome 78 Benchmarks   Software   2019-10-23
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux vs. Debian 10.1 Benchmarks On An Intel Core i9   Operating Systems   2019-10-10
Firefox 69 + Chrome 77 On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu / Clear Linux Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2019-10-08
Firefox 69 / 70 Beta Against Chrome 76 On Ubuntu Linux   Software   2019-09-06
Firefox 69 Beta On Linux Bringing Better Performance   Software   2019-07-16
Chrome 75 vs. Firefox 67 / 68 Beta Linux Performance   Software   2019-06-10
Firefox 68 Performance Is Looking Good With WebRender On Linux   Software   2019-05-23
The Current Windows 10 vs. Linux Browser Performance For Google Chrome + Mozilla Firefox   Operating Systems   2019-04-03
The Fastest Linux Distributions For Web Browsing - Firefox + Chrome Benchmarks On Eight Distros   Operating Systems   2019-03-29
A Quick Benchmark Of Mozilla Firefox With WebRender Beta vs. Chrome   Software   2018-10-27
Benchmarks Show Firefox 57 Quantum Doing Well, But Chrome Largely Winning   Software   2017-09-28
A GNU/Linux Smartphone Running GNOME & HTML5 Web Apps? Priced At $599, Ships In 2019 If The Stars Align   Computers   2017-08-24
The State Of Various Firefox Features   Software   2015-05-18
Does Chrome Burn Through More Power Than Firefox?   Software   2011-08-15
gNewSense 2.0   Operating Systems   2008-05-01
Fedora 9 Rawhide (2008-03-08)   Operating Systems   2008-03-08
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Alpha 6   Operating Systems   2008-03-06
Sun Solaris Express Communuty Build 81   Operating Systems   2008-01-30
SplashTop Source Code Released   Software   2007-11-14
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 RC   Software   2007-11-07
OpenSolaris 75 Ships GNOME 2.20, xVM   Operating Systems   2007-10-23
ASUS P5E3 Deluxe   Motherboards   2007-10-22
ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser   Motherboards   2007-10-06
Zenwalk Linux 4.8 Beta   Operating Systems   2007-09-01
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5   Operating Systems   2007-08-23
SimplyMEPIS 6.9.51 Pre-Beta   Operating Systems   2007-08-03
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2   Operating Systems   2007-06-28
Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Beta 1   Operating Systems   2007-02-15
BeleniX LiveCD v0.5.1   Operating Systems   2006-11-30
Parsix 0.85 Test 3   Operating Systems   2006-11-19
Songbird v0.2 RC1 Test Flight   Software   2006-09-28
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Knot 2   Operating Systems   2006-09-03
Mozilla Firefox v2.0 Beta 1   Software   2006-07-11
A Tour of Bon Echo Alpha 2   Software   2006-05-14
Mozilla Firefox v2.0 Alpha 1   Software   2006-03-21
Ubuntu v6.04 Dapper Drake Flight 5   Operating Systems   2006-03-12
Berry Linux v0.67   Operating Systems   2006-02-18
Pentoo Mini LiveCD v2006.0   Operating Systems   2006-02-06
Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5   Software   2006-01-14
MEPIS SimplyMEPIS v3.4-1 RC1   Operating Systems   2005-11-24
Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird v1.5   Software   2005-11-01
Mozilla SeaMonkey v1.0 Alpha   Software   2005-09-15
Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5 Public BETA 1   Software   2005-09-10
Mozilla Firefox v1.5 Public BETA 1   Software   2005-09-08
Berry Linux v0.62   Operating Systems   2005-09-04
Mozilla Firefox Deer Park Alpha 1   Software   2005-06-01
Mozilla Firefox 1.1 Preview   Software   2005-05-08

Firefox Linux & Open-Source News

Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust   Mozilla   2024-04-23
Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries   Mozilla   2024-04-19
Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9   Intel   2024-04-16
Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features   Mozilla   2024-04-15
Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API   Mozilla   2024-03-18
Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues   Radeon   2024-03-04
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance   GNOME   2024-02-21
Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features   Mozilla   2024-02-19
Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes   Debian   2024-02-11
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46   GNOME   2024-02-10
Mozilla Has A New CEO To Focus On The Future   Mozilla   2024-02-08
Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus   Mozilla   2024-02-06
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3   Arch Linux   2024-01-27
It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux   Intel   2024-01-26
Chrome 121 Adds New CSS & WebGPU Features   Google   2024-01-23
Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements   Mozilla   2024-01-23
Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40   Fedora   2024-01-17
Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023   Intel   2024-01-01
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-28
Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues   Wayland   2023-12-22
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure   Operating Systems   2023-12-20
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2023-12-18
Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support   Raspberry Pi   2023-12-07
Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Graphics   Fedora   2023-12-05
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights   Phoronix   2023-12-01
PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default   Linux Gaming   2023-11-26
Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2023-11-25
Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default   Mozilla   2023-11-20
GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland   GNOME   2023-11-15
Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2023-11-13
Mozilla Firefox Development Finally Moving Entirely To Git   Mozilla   2023-11-06
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes   NVIDIA   2023-11-06
Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox   Mozilla   2023-11-01
Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating   Mozilla   2023-10-30
Firefox 119 Available With Improved Firefox View, Expanded PDF Editing   Mozilla   2023-10-23
Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon   Mozilla   2023-10-13
Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland   Raspberry Pi   2023-10-11
Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3   Phoronix   2023-09-30
Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations   Mozilla   2023-09-25
Cairo 1.18 Released - First Stable Release In Five Years   Free Software   2023-09-23
Ubuntu 23.10 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.5, GNOME 45 & Other Updates   Ubuntu   2023-09-22
Ubuntu 23.10's Firefox Snap Enabling Wayland By Default   Ubuntu   2023-09-16
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2023-09-01
Firefox 117 Available With Local Automated Translation Support   Mozilla   2023-08-28
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6   LibreOffice   2023-08-22
Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance   Free Software   2023-08-18
Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support   Mozilla   2023-08-16
Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider   Mozilla   2023-08-15
AMD Linux CPU Benchmarks Dominated July From The Z1 Extreme To EPYC Genoa-X & Bergamo   Phoronix   2023-08-01
Mozilla Firefox 116 Now Available - Capable Of Wayland-Only Builds   Mozilla   2023-07-31
Solus Linux 4.4 Released - Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie Desktop   Operating Systems   2023-07-07
Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux   Mozilla   2023-07-04
Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds   Mozilla   2023-06-26
Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support   PipeWire   2023-06-16
NsCDE 2.3 Released For Modern Desktop Looking Like The Old CDE   Desktop   2023-06-16
Firefox 114 Available With WebTransport Enabled, Continued DNS Over HTTPS Work   Mozilla   2023-06-05
Mageia 9 Beta 2 Released With Linux 6.3 Kernel, KDE Plasma 5.27 + GNOME 44 Desktops   Operating Systems   2023-05-24
Ubuntu Knocks On Docker In Latest Snaps Promotion   Ubuntu   2023-05-17
Libproxy 0.5 Released For Improving Proxy Management Thanks To Work By Volkswagen   Free Software   2023-05-16
Firefox 113 Available With Animated AV1 Image Support (AVIS)   Mozilla   2023-05-09
Firefox 113 Beta Adds Animated AV1 Image Support   Mozilla   2023-04-11
Firefox 112 Now Available With Support For Importing Chromium Snap Browser Data   Mozilla   2023-04-10
Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default   Google   2023-04-06
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 Released With Linux 6.2 + KDE Plasma 5.27 Desktop   Operating Systems   2023-03-26
Trisquel 11 LTS Released As Ubuntu-Based, FSF-Approved Linux Distribution   Operating Systems   2023-03-21
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.9 Released With YUV444 Support   NVIDIA   2023-03-12
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
Firefox 110 Released With Better WebGL Performance, GPU-Accelerated 2D Canvas   Mozilla   2023-02-14
Lutris 0.5.13 Beta Released With Proton Support, Itch.io Integration   Linux Gaming   2023-02-11
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Is Shaping Up Nicely   Red Hat   2023-02-10
Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2023-01-31
System76 Adding XWayland Support & Other Improvements To Its COSMIC DE   Desktop   2023-01-31
Mozilla Comes Out Neutral On JPEG-XL Image Format Support   Mozilla   2023-01-31
Cairo Graphics Library Drops OpenGL Support After A Decade Of Inactivity   Free Software   2023-01-29
Firefox 109 vs. Chrome 109 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux + Core i9 13900K   Desktop   2023-01-22
Firefox 109 Available With Unified Extensions Button, Other Small Changes   Mozilla   2023-01-16
AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year   Phoronix   2022-12-30
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.8 Introduces New Direct Backend   NVIDIA   2022-12-18
Firefox 108 Now Available With WebMIDI, Import Maps Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2022-12-12
OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 Released With Updates For This OpenSolaris-Derived OS   Operating Systems   2022-12-05
Wayland Screen Sharing For Chrome/Chromium Improving - Enabled By Default Soon?   Wayland   2022-11-22
Firefox 107 Released With Power Profiling Support On Linux   Mozilla   2022-11-15
KDE Ends Out October With More Plasma 6.0 Planning, Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2022-10-29
Firefox 106 Brings Improved WebRTC - Better Screen Sharing On Wayland   Mozilla   2022-10-17
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.7 Released For Enjoying VA-API With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   NVIDIA   2022-10-14
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2022-10-01
Apple M1 Linux GPU DRM Driver Now Running GNOME, Various Apps   Apple   2022-09-29
A Lot Of Bug Fixing - Including For Wayland - Heading Into KDE Plasma 5.26   KDE   2022-09-24
Firefox 105 Now Available - Better Linux Performance Under Memory Pressure   Mozilla   2022-09-20
HarfBuzz 5.2 Released With Unicode 15 Support   Free Software   2022-09-17
Endeavour OS 22.9 "Artemis Nova" Released   Operating Systems   2022-09-14
AMDVLK 2022.Q3.4 Driver Finally Adds Ray-Tracing Support For RDNA2   Radeon   2022-09-13
Firefox 104 Now Available With Minor Improvements   Mozilla   2022-08-23
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Delayed Due To An OEM Install Issue Leading To Broken Snaps   Ubuntu   2022-08-04
SteamOS 3.3 Now Available With Many Improvements For The Steam Deck   Valve   2022-08-02
Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights   Phoronix   2022-08-01
Firefox 103 Better Handles High Refresh Displays, WebGL Performance Fix On NVIDIA Driver   Mozilla   2022-07-26
NsCDE 2.2 Released As Retro Desktop Inspired By Unix's CDE   Desktop   2022-07-25
Ubuntu Achieves A ~50% Reduction In Start Time For Firefox Snap   Ubuntu   2022-07-08
Rust For Linux, -O3'ing The Kernel & Other Highlights From June   Phoronix   2022-07-01
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Has A Change On The Way For Systemd-OOMD Being Kill-Happy With Apps   Ubuntu   2022-06-30
Thunderbird 102 Released With Big Improvements To This Leading Open-Source Mail Client   Mozilla   2022-06-28
Firefox 102 Available With Transform Streams, Geoclue On Linux   Mozilla   2022-06-27
Ubuntu Developers Have An Idea For Handling The Over-Eager Systemd OOMD App Killing   Ubuntu   2022-06-23
Canonical Continues Working On Ubuntu's Firefox Snap Performance   Ubuntu   2022-06-16
Firefox Nightly Tries For VA-API Video Acceleration For Mesa Users   Mozilla   2022-06-02
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver, Graviton3 & Fedora 36 Made For An Exciting May   Phoronix   2022-05-31
Firefox 101 Released With Few Notable Changes   Mozilla   2022-05-31
NVIDIA VA-API 0.0.6 Driver Works On Multi-Threaded Decode, Improved GPU Selection   NVIDIA   2022-05-25
Google Chrome 102 Released With Capture Handle, File Handling For Given MIME Types   Google   2022-05-24
Mozilla Firefox 100 Now Available With Various Improvements   Mozilla   2022-05-03
LXQt 1.1 Released With XDG Desktop Portal Integration, Other New Features   Desktop   2022-04-16
Firefox 99 Available With Strengthened Linux Sandbox, Web MIDI   Mozilla   2022-04-05
Fedora Workstation Brainstorming A Possible GUI-Based Linux Recovery Environment   Fedora   2022-04-04
Gentoo Linux Back To Spinning A Weekly LiveGUI DVD/USB ISO   Operating Systems   2022-04-04
Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March   Phoronix   2022-04-02
Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1   Phoronix   2022-03-31
Firefox 98 Set For Release With Dialog Element, Still Working On Wayland Support   Mozilla   2022-03-07
HarfBuzz 4.0 Released For This Open-Source Text Shaping Library   Free Software   2022-03-02
Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support   Linux Gaming   2022-03-01
Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February   Phoronix   2022-03-01
KDE Developers Had A Very Busy Valentine's Week With Many Plasma Improvements   KDE   2022-02-19
NVIDIA VAAPI Driver 0.0.5 Released With AV1 Acceleration   NVIDIA   2022-02-12
Less Than 10% Of Firefox Users On Linux Are Running Wayland   Mozilla   2022-02-07
Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser To Succeed Firefox Reality   Mozilla   2022-02-03
FSF-Tailored Trisquel 10.0 Released - Adds 32-bit Arm, Defaults To GNU Linux-Libre 5.4   GNU   2022-02-02
Intel Alder Lake & Linux Kernel Advancements Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2022-02-01
KDE's Falkon Browser Sees First Major Update In Nearly Three Years   KDE   2022-01-31
Firefox Nightly Begins Activating Wayland For Capable Systems   Mozilla   2022-01-25
KDE's 15-Minute Bug Initiative Gets Underway   KDE   2022-01-19
Firefox Gets AV1 VA-API Acceleration Sorted Out   Mozilla   2022-01-18
GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements   GNOME   2022-01-12
Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas   Mozilla   2022-01-11
GNOME On Wayland Lands Improved Handling For Direct Scanout Support   GNOME   2022-01-08
Firefox 95 vs. Chrome 97 Browser Performance On Linux   Desktop   2022-01-06
Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration   NVIDIA   2022-01-04
Wine 7.0-rc4 Released With Another 38 Fixes   WINE   2022-01-02
helloSystem 0.7 Released With Big Improvements For This Leading Desktop BSD OS   BSD   2021-12-20
The Sad State Of Web Browser Support Currently Within Debian   Debian   2021-12-08
Firefox 95 Ready With RLBox Sandboxing Across All Platforms   Mozilla   2021-12-06
Arch-Based EndeavourOS 21.4 Released With FSTRIM, Btrfs Zstd, PipeWire By Default   Arch Linux   2021-12-03
Firefox 94.0 Released With Linux Build Using EGL For Better Performance, Power Savings   Mozilla   2021-11-02
Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use   Mozilla   2021-10-30
KDE Ends Out October With More Fixes, Continued Polishing To Plasma Wayland   KDE   2021-10-30
KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Continues Seeing More Crash Fixes   KDE   2021-10-16
Ubuntu 21.10 Released With GNOME 40 Desktop, Many Underlying Improvements   Ubuntu   2021-10-14
Chrome 96 To Feature Improved WebRTC Code, Better Wayland Screensharing   Google   2021-10-06