Browser Security News

Flock, a social-focused browser startup that has raised nearly $30 million in venture funding, has ceased building on top of the open source Firefox browser, say multiple sources. The next version of the Flock browser will be built on Google’s open source Chrome browser platform. The last version of Flock was released in October 2008.

A few months ago, I wrote that Flock, the social-media browser built on top of Firefox, had become my new favorite browser. It still is–and today, the Flock folks released a beta of version 1.1. It’s got no earthshaking new features, but is sure worth a look if you like inventive Web tools.

Flock Inc. this week added MySpace support to its Mozilla-based social Web browser that allows users to monitor what is happening on their favorite social networks while they surf the Web.

Flock 1.0 delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what’s important to them. By automatically managing updates and media from popular social services such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter, Flock makes sharing with friends and services drag-and-drop easy.

…I’ve been using the iteration billed at the beta version of Flock 1.0 for the past few days. And I’m so impressed that I’ve done something I didn’t see myself anytime soon: I’ve dumped Firefox as my primary gateway to the Web. For now, I’m using Flock as my default browser on both my desktop [...]

Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of [...]

Iceweasel is a free software derivation of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Along with Gnuzilla it is the GNU attempt to create a version of Firefox which can be used by free software GNU/Linux and UNIX software distributions. It removes the unfree artwork and plugins that free software advocates considered to be problematic. Iceweasel is [...]

Furthermore, they don’t want the Firefox name being used without the appropriate artwork. There’s probably two reasons for this:
1. Mozilla doesn’t want to be affiliated with bad forks of their software (which they have no control over).
2. Mozilla doesn’t want to lose the Firefox trademark if it ever becomes [...]

GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for GNU is Not Unix, first set out in 1984 to develop a Unix-like operating system as Free Software.
It is now gearing up to provide a "free" version of Mozilla’s (not-so-free) Firefox browser. The GNU version is called IceWeasel and is part of the GNUzilla effort from [...]

A Boston based group on Monday posted the second post-beta version of a Firefox knock-off browser that promises to start faster and consume fewer PC resources.
The Windows-only K-Meleon 1.01 browser is based on the same Gecko engine as Firefox (and the also-open-source SeaMonkey suite), the product’s release notes state. The code base, Mozilla 1.8.0.5, is [...]