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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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Mozilla has delayed the delivery of Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate (RC) until late next week to take care of several last-minute bugs, a company executive said today.
Beltzner attributed the bug finds to a “newfound rigor” in testing, as well as a larger number of users hammering on the RC code. “[All this] makes it easier for us to spot potential problems with a milestone much earlier than ever before,” he said. Mozilla is now hoping to post Firefox 3.5 RC for download late next week, in the June 10-12 time frame.
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Mozilla has cultivated a healthy ecosystem for extension developers around its popular Firefox browser, but with over 5,000 add-ons available organizing them can be confusing. To help fix that problem, Mozilla Tuesday announced the launch of “Fashion Your Firefox.”
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The Mozilla Foundation has released a first beta version of Firefox 3.1. This new version of the open source web browser shows some fundamental changes, including the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which adds just in time compilation and speeds up JavaScript execution when using web applications.
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I absolutely cannot function without [these Firefox plugins] on a daily basis, the add-ons to our favorite browser that make existing in this spread out social media/network world just a little bit easier. These are the tools that make my social media existence (and sanity) possible, in no particular order of course.
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