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Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers.
“We believe a Mac OS X 10.5 minimum will allow us to provide the best experience possible to our users,” Mozilla Mac programmer Josh Aas said Tuesday in a mailing list announcement. Firefox is built on a browser engine called Gecko, and the upcoming version 1.9.3 will have technology for Mac OS X 10.4 and before removed, he said.
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Firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness of its claim to fame–third-party, customizable browser extensions–to help its browser win mobile market share. Add-ons, after all, helped make Firefox the top browser alternative to Internet Explorer in the desktop space. To punctuate the importance of add-ons for Firefox’s mobile browser, Mozilla also pushed out on Friday the general release of its bookmark and history-syncing extension, Weave Sync 1.0, for both desktop and mobile.
When you grab the first public betas of the latest software, you may find a few new features that upset you — new ways of doing things, functionality that’s been changed or moved, and new default behaviors.
This is often true of browsers and especially true of Firefox.
Mozilla blocked the Framework Assistant last Friday. Earlier in the week, Microsoft warned that Firefox users were vulnerable to an attack because of a problem in the add-on if users had not applied the MS09-054 IE patch. Mozilla consulted Microsoft before implementing the block.
Still blocked is the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) add-on, but Mozilla is working on an alternative for users.
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Mozilla has released 11 vulnerability disclosures for Firefox and SeaMonkey, covering a total of 16 vulnerabilities. Firefox 3.5.4, Firefox 3.0.15 and SeaMonkey 2.0 have been released to fix them.
6 of the reports, covering 11 of the vulnerabilities, are rated Critical. These include crashes with evidence of memory corruption, heap buffer overflows, and several updates of open source libraries with critical flaws. Three bugs are rated Moderate and 2 low.
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Firefox users, get ready for the Update Available pop-up: New versions for the 3.0 and 3.5 browser lines that fix critical security holes are now available.
One serious bug in the “BrowserFeedWriter” could be hit with malicious Javascript code to run an attacker’s command with elevated privileges. A second critical TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability, along with a third set of critical issues in the browser engine, could allow a bad guy to crash Firefox and run “arbitrary code,” which might be to install malware, on a vulnerable computer.
Firefox is now at version 3.5 and is one of the fastest browsers available, second only to Google’s Chrome, and despite 3.5’s recent release the Mozilla foundation are already looking forward on how to improve the next version.
Mozilla is set to launch One Billion Plus You today, August 3rd. The site will have even more details and comprehensive statistics on the accomplishment.
In a town hall meeting yesterday, a new member of the State Department, which uses Internet Explorer as its Web browser, pleaded with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to “please let the staff use” rival Mozilla Firefox. (Jump to 26:34 on the above video.) Pointing out that Firefox had been “approved for the entire intelligence community,” and that it’s a “much safer program,” the rookie’s question was met with a rowdy chorus of cheers and laughter.
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Mozilla’s Firefox seems to hold a place dear in web designers’ and developers’ hearts as a bastion of open sourceness; to be honest, I’m not the most well versed in these matters so I don’t know if there are better open source browser options that have more street cred than Firefox — I’m sure there is some browser in beta called Cucumber (or whatever) that is more hardcore. But I digress. Point is that with Firefox there are no secrets, no here-is-the-latest-thing-and-you-will-like-it, it’s all about involving others. And their process to upgrade their huggable, foxy icon to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.5 was no different. Perhaps to an excruciating degree.
In reality, I doubt there’s much separation between Mozilla, the corporation, and Mozilla, the foundation, but there is a world of difference between how Mozilla presents itself to the open-source development community and the most community-friendly of open-source companies, like Red Hat. Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and money always seems to take second place to community with Mozilla.
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