Contemporary browsers are much more than just a window into the World Wide Web: Browser developers have turned the software into sophisticated application platforms in their own right. But browsers ...

Mozilla is overhauling its Gecko-based web engine so that it's better at handling the dynamic features of modern websites. Read now Mozilla has fixed a critical flaw in Firefox that could allow a ...

The Web standards world and Microsoft are getting reacquainted with one another. But it's not all kumbaya around the campfire. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

An industry group made up the four major browser vendors, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, have won a tug-of-war with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the ...

Google's video codec has significant support, but building it into the standard language for Web pages would advance its fortunes significantly. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The Mozilla development project, Mozilla.org, this week released Phoenix 0.1, a speedier version of its open-source Web browser. The Phoenix browser is designed to improve upon Mozilla 1.1, released ...

Let's say you're Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla -- an organization that thrives on internet privacy. What would you do? If you guessed "build a privacy-minded web browser," you hit the nail ...