Tagged: mozilla

Firefox 9 update brings Swipe gestures for Lion users

Mozilla has FINALLY added Mac OS X Lion gesture support in Firefox. Although, Firefox 9 only adds two gestures (forward and back), they are certainly the most popular.

Firefox 9

Still not making the feature list (below), though, are numerous other Lion (and even Leopard) features that Chrome & Safari browsers have, such as PDF viewing support and native full screen. With the plethora of extensions now available for Chrome, there’s little reason to use the more bloated Firefox browser right now.
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Web browser choices have never been better for Mac users

Popular Mac Browsers

Some of the most popular browsers from Mozilla, Google, Apple, and others

When Apple first released Mac OS X a decade ago, Mac users had little choice in web browsers. There was Microsoft Explorer, and Netscape Navigator, and… well, that was it. Soon after we were treated to a few more options, but nothing like we have today.

With Safari shipping on every Mac, and the world-wide popularity of Mozilla’s Firefox, you would think there wouldn’t be much room for competition in the web browser market. But the options have actually never been better for Mac users. (more…)

Run Firefox 4 on a PPC G4 or G5 Mac

TenFourFox

TenFourFox is Mozilla Firefox 4 that runs on PPC Macs and OS X Tiger

If you have a G3, G4 or G5 Macintosh, or are stuck running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you are unfortunately unable to run the latest version of Mozilla Firefox 4. Or are you? TenFourFox is basically Firefox 4 that runs on the older Macs and OS versions, bringing all the modern browser goodness to Mac users stuck in the past.