Mozilla is scrambling to deal with Google’s decision to drop the Google Toolbar for Firefox, according to notes on Mozilla’s website. Earlier this week, Google announced it was killing Google Toolbar for Firefox, and would not be updating the add-on to support Firefox 5 or future versions of the...

It seems Demand Media is finding the Internet content business more, er, demanding than expected. Having failed to convince the world that it isn’t just a purveyor of low-cost online crap, the owner of Answerbag and eHow (among others) is trying to silence its critics — at least, those it thinks...

The in-house reputation system used in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 is markedly superior at blocking social-engineering attacks than the Google equivalent used by Chrome, Firefox, Apple’s Safari, an independent test by NSS Labs has found. Rating the browsers against a sample set of European malware URLs...

Mozilla is planning to retire Firefox 3.6 from support, but won’t put the 18-month-old browser out to pasture until August at the earliest. The retirement of Firefox 3.6 would follow that of Firefox 4 and Firefox 3.5 earlier this year. Firefox 3.5, which Mozilla launched in mid-2009, received its last...

Spotify is likely to launch in the U.S. within a matter of weeks–if statements from a company executive are to be believed. According to Silicon Valley Watcher’s Tom Foremski, Spotify’s advertising chief and head of European operations, Jonathan Forster, made the statement at a conference...