In a statement that can potentially spark off a mammoth online debate, Asa Dotzler, director of community development at Mozilla, urged the Firefox users in a December 10 blog post to switch their default search engine to Microsoft’s Bing via an add-on.

November 9, 2009 marked the fifth birthday of the Mozilla's open-source browser Firefox 1.0, which essentially replaced the monopoly of the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and gave the users a fairly competitive alternative!

It fixes several security bugs and it addresses several stability issues in the Web browser; that's what Mozilla stated about the latest version of its Firefox browser, which was released on Tuesday.

To turn on a much faster JavaScript engine and sport a working privacy mode, Mozilla Corp. has launched the first version of its flagship browser - the much-anticipated Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, which can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla's site. The users already running Beta 1 will be notified of the available update in a couple of days.