Internet giant, Google has entered into a deal with Mozilla to keep Google as the default search engine for the Firefox browser.

Google will pay $300 million annually to the company for the integration of the search engine into the browser. The two companies have agreed to continue their partnership for another three years, adding to almost $1 billion payment by Google to the browser.

Mozilla has released the first beta version of its Firefox 5 on Friday after a month of the release of the browser in the cutting-edge Aura channel.

The new version offers improved performance and stability, the Firefox channel switcher and support for CSS Animations. The browser’s support for CSS Animations is still subject to formal approval from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards group. It allows developers to add animations and make aspects more attractive.

Mozilla has come out with second beta of the Firefox 4.0 web browser and has since then has occupied the top slot on news.

The new interface and improvements includes tabs-on-the-top placement for the Mac OS X users at the same time adds the "App Tabs" to keep a close eye on most commonly used web apps and services.

It is soon after the launch of Firefox 4.0 beta 1, the new beta version rolls out offering a facelift to Mac users who might have been wishing for this offering.

Mozilla is working on an app for the iPhone to be called "Home" that will allow users with admittance to their own Firefox desktop.

The Mozilla browser on the home based screen authorizes to link with history, bookmarks and tabs which will be linked with the browser session using the Mozilla sync, a system that is akin to the sync process that is already available on the iPhone.

Firefox Home although a true browser wouldn't serve to be a full Firefox browser, but rather one that uses the browser already installed on the iPhone.

Leading Browser, Mozilla has informed that the Firefox 4 is going to support the upcoming IndexedDB standard. The IndexedDB standard is basically meant for local database storing for the web applications. This has been informed in the released on Mozilla's new Firefox 4 for developers site.

The main advantage of this IndexedDB interface is that, it provides the user to access web applications at the time when there is even no network connection. This is going to be an all new inclusion for the HTML standards. The proposed IndexedDB is going to be an effective addition to the HTML standard.

Mozilla's latest mobile Firefox, codenamed Fennec, has been rolled out in its pre-alpha version on Android 2.0 and above.

One of the finest browsers that promise of utility with speed is now featuring with its latest version for mobiles. This version is supposed to be a debugged one, with un-optimized memory utilization.

Although still in its testing stages it faces a bit of quirks while rebooting the app as it started or when a new add-on is installed.

Dubbed as pocket PC- the Nokia N900 handset based on the Linux-based Maemo platform has Firefox as its other browser engine- Firefox 1.1.

Firefox 1.1 beta is tuned akin to Firefox 3.6 for desktop computers. The offering is specially made compatible to mobile devices as it dishes out an enhanced browsing experience. Users can expect an improved user interface, performance and UI responsiveness.

Fennec, Firefox’s web browser is ready to occupy your mobile phones.

Mozilla is the world’s second-largest Internet browser firm, and it now wants to compete with its rival companies like Opera Mini, Safari, Chrome, Nokia, Netfront and Internet Explorer for Mobile. The company is taking out a browser for mobile which will launch in 2010.

Mozilla’s Firefox browser commands 25% global market share on desktops and Internet Explorer commands a majority share of almost 63%.And viewing the market share on mobile, Opera is the leader with 63% share and then is Nokia with 26% share.

It seems that Mozilla would not be able to keep its 2009 deadline for a Firefox 3.6 release, and is also giving itself more time to come out with a major update, the version 4.0.

Mozilla, the firm behind the open-source web browser, which is also the most popular currently, had shared that it would release a Firefox 3.6 version in December 2009, but now, the Mozilla site now states that "ship Firefox 3.6" is a goal it expects to reach during 2010's first quarter.

The head of Mozilla, the company owning open source Firefox browser, Mr. Jay Sullivan has informed that very soon Firefox is going to launch a browser for mobile, Fennec, which will be initially available for Nokia's N900 phone.

Firefox has found a big security hole in the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation add-ons and decided to block Microsoft's add-on and plug-in to avoid any possible threat of attack.

Microsoft automatically installed a pair of components for Windows users of the Firefox Web browser without their permission few months earlier.

Mozilla has issued security updates to Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0 open-source browsers to make many security bugs void. Bugs include the one disclosed at last week's Black Hat security conference.

During Black Hat in Las Vegas Dan Kaminsky had focused on problems of SSL.

Firefox 3.0.13 would fix two bugs and Firefox 3.5.2 is supposed to nullify another flaw.

Mozilla has strongly advised that all Firefor users should upgrade to these latest releases.

The patches apply to versions of Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux.

In its first minor point update of the 3.5 series on early Friday, Mozilla released Firefox the 3.5.1, in an attempt to address a security vulnerability in the new 'hybrid' TraceMonkey JavaScript engine of the browser.

However, even with Mozilla's efforts to address the mentioned vulnerability in its Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler, there are fresh reports already of another vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.5.1 - which, according to security experts, might make other Firefox versions vulnerable as well.

The developer of firefox web browser – Mozilla has rolled out an Open Web Tools Directory, stuffed with web apps and tools for developers. With its Open Web Tools Directory, Mozilla is aiming to provide developers, a comprehensive collection or list of a wide range of tools available.

According to Ben Galbraith, Co-Director of Developer Tools at Mozilla, the Open Web Tools Directory is aimed to help developers explore the broad universe of tools. The Open Web Tools Directory will help developers track and understand tools available.

The developer of free and open source Firefox web browser – Mozilla has announced that it will officially release its Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

Codenamed as Shiretoko, the Firefox 3.5 version’s first Release Candidate was released on June 16, 2009; the second Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate was released on June 19, 2009; and the third Release Candidate of the version 3.5 of Firefox was released on June 24 2009.