All those millions of people that rushed to download Firefox 3 got something they didn’t expect – a critical security vulnerability. Some people smell a rat!
The vulnerability, which could allow the excevution of arbitrary code, was reported to TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative just five hours after the open source browser was released on Tuesday. The [...]
Although Mozilla says Firefox 3 beta 4 still isn’t intended for the general public, its performance so far has given them the confidence to announce the final version is nearly ready to be unleashed on the world.
In an interview with Reuters, Mozilla’s Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview that Firefox 3 [...]
Mozilla has released beta 3 of Firefox 3.0, with around 1300 ‘individual changes’ from beta 2, with fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.
Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is here, with plenty of improvements set to send Firefox’s percentage of market share soaring ever higher once the final version is released [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and [...]
Apple showed off lots of new features of its upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X at WWDC on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.
Stacks
These screens from Apple’s new Leopard preview illustrate the many new features revealed at today’s WWDC. Leopard’s new system for eliminating desktop clutter is called “Stacks.” Click any [...]
New alpha release is the first to include the much-anticipated, database-driven revamp of the bookmarks feature called Places.
Mozilla made an early testing release of its Firefox 3 browser available for download, and this alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks.
According to Mike Connor, director of Firefox [...]
San Francisco (IDGNS) – Mozilla developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.
The service, known as Joey, can help mobile users save time and money when accessing online content. While the service itself sounds relatively basic, its developers say users [...]
Mozilla CEO talks about her vision for the future of Firefox
Behind the browser: Mitchell Baker, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation,
has taken Firefox from nothing to a $US55million per year business
Mozilla’s CEO, Mitchell Baker, has been making the press rounds lately to drum up support and interest in Firefox, the company’s popular open-source web browser. Firefox [...]
Few days back, Mozilla released the details about The Coop, a new Firefox add-on in development that will bring social networking to firefox. The addon will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interesting content with one or more of those friends.
Microsoft’s Deepfish technology isn’t really a browser, it’s a browser feature. But it’s a feature that Microsoft’s Pocket Internet Explorer desperately needs.
Microsoft announced Deepfish on Wednesday, and the company is being a bit cagy about it. According to them, it’s a “new mobile technology … designed to offer mobile users quick and convenient Web browsing.” [...]
