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Information about your favorite browser: news, articles and more.
Archive for November, 2007
Firefox 2.0.0.9 remote DoS vulnerability
Closed Published November 6th, 2007 in Browser Security, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, FirefoxMozilla provides Firefox 2 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. A stability update released on 1st November 2007 corrected several problems that were found in the previous release, Firefox 2.0.0.8. A new flaw discovered in the lastest Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows a remote attacker to crash the browser causing a [...]
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.
Firefox users may be surprised to see their browser of choice popup an announcement that a new update has been made to it. Firefox 2.0.0.8 only came out on October 18th, making a November 1st update well outside of their usual maintenance release cycle.
Attackers take aim at IE7 flaw
Closed Published November 2nd, 2007 in Browser Security, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer 7Microsoft is warning users to avoid suspicious websites and emails after attacks were reported on an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer 7. The company would not provide exact figures, but said that a "limited number " of attacks had been reported. The attacks target a vulnerability in IE7’s handling of the uniform resource indicator (URI) [...]
Mozilla Devilish Deal With Google
Closed Published November 2nd, 2007 in Browser Security, Google, MozillaTwo aspects of Mozilla’s close ties with Google over development of the Firefox browser have Chris Soghoian concerned about a conflict of interest in play. People who adopt Firefox as a replacement for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer think they are turning aside a monopolist in favor of a more secure and open browsing alternative. It may [...]
The new alpha release of Firefox 3.0 sports malware website protection
Closed Published November 2nd, 2007 in Browser Security, Firefox, MalwareThere is good news for all those end users of the Firefox web browsing software application who had been eagerly waiting for news on the development of Mozilla Firefox version 3.0. The Alpha release of Mozilla Firefox version 3.0 has been released and is available for download on the World Wide Web. Of course, the [...]
Auto Hide Your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar
Closed Published November 2nd, 2007 in Browser Security, Firefox, Tips and TweaksFirefox only: Love the bookmarks toolbar but only want it there when you need it? Reader Andy writes in with a tweak that makes the toolbar hide automatically, unless you mouse over it (like auto-hiding your Windows taskbar or Mac Dock.) To turn on auto-hiding you have to edit your Firefox profile’s copy of userChrome.css [...]
