As thirteen senators announced their opposition to PIPA, the controversial bill before the United States senate that aimed to address non-US websites that pirated movies, music and more, a new bill has been introduced.

Mozilla Corp. has delayed the release candidate of Firefox 3.5 from this week ‘til next, but NBR's tests reveal it'll be worth the wait - this fox is blazingly fast.

Typically the browser itself will ship two weeks after the release candidate, allowing for final bugs to be fixed, which means the company will be pushing it to reach its end-of-month deadline for Firefox 3.5's final code.

With the stroke of a pen, Firefox 3.1 has become Firefox 3.5. Mozilla says TraceMonkey, Private Browsing and other “awesome” new features excuse the arbitrary jump.

Skipping version numbers to create the impression of an accelerated update schedule is nothing new (anybody remember Microsoft skipping over a few numerals to “catch up” with WordPerfect?).

However, in this case Mozilla says the cheeky bump-ahead warranted.

Under pressure from the EU, Microsoft is going to give people the option to remove its web browser from Windows 7, according to a leaked screen shot.

The screen shot of Windows 7 Build 7048, first posted on the Aero Experience blog, clearly shows a “Windows Features” set-up screen that gives you the option to delete Internet Explorer 8, along with other components.

Firefox Mobile (aka “Fennec”), will be Mozilla’s first smartphone browser. But don’t hold your breath, alternative browser fans – early reviewers of the alpha version find a Fox with a long way to run before it's ready for public release.

Fennec first surfaced during October, in an alpha version that ran on the little-known Nokia Internet Tablet.

This week, another early-test version of Fennec was released, this time for Windows Mobile handsets.