Browser Security News

Safari is either making huge gains or holding steady in the browser wars; it all depends on whose stats you use. The same can be said of Firefox, while Internet Explorer is losing ground in the US but holding steady worldwide. The conflicting numbers come courtesy of two web metrics tracking firms, Net Applications and […]

Microsoft has another IE vulnerability on its hands. But is it a flaw, or is it a feature? IE’s been having a miserable time of late, starring in scads of headlines about security flaws. Most recently came last week’s monthly security bulletin, a package of fixes for 20 individual problems in Microsoft products. Included in […]

Mozilla Corp. will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions. The flaw, disclosed Feb. 14 by Polish researcher Michal Zalewski on the Full-Disclosure security mailing list, could let a malicious site manipulate the authentication cookies for […]

Firefox suffers from a flaw that allows attackers to manipulate the authentication cookies of virtually any website, a vulnerability Bugzilla has deemed severe. It’s the second major security lapse for the open-source browser in as many days.

Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, in all its versions, has been downloaded more than 300 million times since its initial release on Nov. 9, 2004, but last month for the first time in more than year, it lost market share. In January, Firefox saw its share of the browser market drop to 13.67% from 14% in […]

You’re at an open wireless hotspot, but you don’t want to send your web browsing data over it in plain text. Or you want to visit a non-work-approved web page from the office computer without the IT team finding out. Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect […]

The latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows and (in the case of Firefox) Unix systems are vulnerable to attacks that could reveal the contents of sensitive files residing on a victim’s hard drives. The vulnerability resides in the functionality that allows the browsers to upload files to a remote server. It requires […]

An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend). Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because you’ll be able to […]

SafariSpeed just got a whole lot better. SafariSpeed 2 introduces an array of useful new features. In addition to removing Safari’s page loading delay and disabling favorite icons, SafariSpeed 2 can disable Safari’s cache for an even greater performance boost, turn on and off Safari’s debug menu and PDF support, and easily switch Safari’s interface […]

During this and last week Mozilla developers and drivers had a run of meetings to discuss Product Requirement Document (PRD, a list of what Firefox 3 should include) released . Requirements have been shuffled, some added, some removed and most, better defined. Regarding Gecko more tweaks for better standards support have been confirmed. Most notably, […]