Best of Firefox — September 2022

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   RisingStack·4y

   History of JavaScript on a Timeline

   In the early 1990s, Brendan Eich was working on a project at Netscape Communications Corporation. He needed a scripting language for web pages that would be easy to use, so he created one himself. On December 15, 1994, Netscape released the Netscape Navigator 1.0 web browser.

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   The Register·4y

   Firefox 105 is out: Faster and more memory-frugal

   Firefox 105 is leaner and meaner, and remains more efficient and customisable than any Chrome-based browser. Memory handling has been tightened up, and the browser now handles low-memory situations better on both Windows and Linux.

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   It's Foss·4y

   11 Interesting Firefox Add-ons to Improve Your Browsing Experience

   The Tranquility Reader add-on has the following stats: - Mozilla’s Recommended extension. It has an average rating of 4.6 stars (with 200 reviews) It gives you a clean UI with nothing but text, so you can focus on reading. The Tomato Clock is a clock timer, which feels either long or short or short depending on how long it is. A ‘tomato’ is 25 minutes long.

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   The Register·4y

   Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers

   Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Google over browsers over browsers. Mozilla says there are alternatives, such as its open-source Firefox. Google strong-arms Android smartphone makers into bundling Google's software suite – including Chrome – and competing browsers are given the cold shoulder. This is important given the high use of both PC and mobile browsers.

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