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Archive for July 2007
(Source: PC WORLD) Mozilla ’s Firefox browser suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a security company’s research said Monday.
According to Symantec’s tally, 40 Firefox vulnerabilities were disclosed between August and December 2006. Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, was hit with 54 bugs. Opera and Safari — the browser Apple bundles with Mac OS X — had four flaws each. (Read more)
Mary at the Official Mozilla Blog has a list of a few of her favorite Firefox features.
They include:
- Session Restore: Never feel the pain again of accidentally closing a website! (Editor’s note: can you tell this is my favorite?) You can recover closed tabs and windows, and even text you entered in web forms, by going to the History menu and selecting the “Recently Closed Tabs” option. You also can set Firefox so that it automatically opens the last websites you visited by going to the Tools menu, picking Options and selecting “Show my windows and tabs from last time” under the Startup section. (On Mac OS X: go to the Firefox menu, then pick Preferences)
- Crunch numbers within Firefox: You can use Google in the built-in search box (upper right corner) as a calculator. Simply type in the equation (e.g. 243 + 5,234) and the answer appears in the drop down menu of suggested search options (e.g. = 5477).
- Set multiple home pages: You don’t have to be limited to one home page with Firefox. In fact, I have it set so that Firefox launches both of my web mail accounts – Gmail and Yahoo! mail – when it opens. Learn Firefox has a great explanation of how to choose your start page in the first place. In the URL field enter the addresses of your preferred pages separated by a pipe or the “|”.
- Maximize or Minimize your font size: Using this keyboard shortcut, you can control the size of your browser font — this comes in handy when reading small fonts. Simply press the “Ctrl” and “+” keys together in Windows (or the “Command” and “+” keys on the Mac) and the “Ctrl” and “-” keys to decrease. “Ctrl” and “0″ keys pressed together returns you to the original text size.
What are yours?
In order to ensure the new browser survives in it’s next mode, the Firefox 3 timeline has been completely scrapped and a new one has been put in place.
In a note to the Mozilla development planning group Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering, said:
We are driven by quality, not time. We want to Firefox 3 to be something that we are all proud of. This means features that delight users and the same or higher quality than previous releases. “Quality” includes performance (Tp/Ts/TDHTML/etc), footprint, web compatibility,
And judging by the numbers, courtesy of OneStat, Mozilla swiped that market share directly from Microsoft, which was down about one percent worldwide. The Beast of Redmond still controls just under 85 percent of the worldwide browser market, though.
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