Enterprise application whitelisting company Bit9 launched an attention-getting press release last week, a document which merely bubbled for a few days until the recent Internet Explorer flaw took center stage and Mozilla pushed out a few Firefox updates. Eventually, the heat under the issue boiled over, prompting Mozilla to tackle the Bit9 report on its [...]
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As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.5 and Firefox 2.0.0.19 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads:
* Firefox 3.0.5 is available at http://getfirefox.com/
* Firefox 2.0.0.19 is available at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html
Mozilla is not planning any further security & stability updates for Firefox 2, [...]
As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update
process, Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.18 are now available for
Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads:
* Firefox 3.0.4 is available at http://getfirefox.com/
* Firefox 2.0.0.18 is available at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest
release. If you already have Firefox 3 or Firefox [...]
Four years ago today, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 1.0. and delivered a better Web experience to millions of users. Top features included pop-up blocking, fraud protection, integrated search and tabbed browsing. What made you decide to give Firefox a try? And what were your favorite features in Firefox 1.0? 2.0? 3.0? If [...]
In six weeks, support for Firefox 2 will end. Anyone still using Firefox 2 should soon think about upgrading to Firefox 3. Normally, an existing version reaches its end of life (EOL) six months after the introduction of its successor which would mean, for Firefox 2, mid-December. After that point there would be no more [...]
Want to add a few more features and functionality to your Firefox status bar? Here are a some common tweaks you may want to make, and how you can get them added to your own browser.
Extended Statusbar - check out speed, percentage, time and loaded size and more
Organize Status Bar - clear the clutter [...]
[Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta.]
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for [...]
In order to repair a problem experienced by some users with the
Password Manager feature in Firefox 3.0.2, and as part of Mozilla
Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox
3.0.3 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads
at http://getfirefox.com/
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest
release. If you already have [...]
Mozilla developers are rushing out a new release of their Firefox browser to fix a bug that has been preventing some Web surfers from using saved passwords this week.
The bug lies in the Firefox 3.0.2 software, released Tuesday. It affects Firefox users who use certain types of characters in their saved usernames and passwords, such [...]
There are a couple of new Firefox releases out there. They add a bunch of new stuff, including fixes for a couple of scary security issues. Expect updates from distributors shortly.
Read more at LWN.net
Firefox became in a relatively short period of time the most popular web browser on Linux. It is also the most powerful competitor to Internet Explorer on Windows, proving itself faster, more stable, more flexible and secure. Some would say Firefox is one of the most important proofs that open-source can and is actually better [...]
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The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code
named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is
built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms
the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note
that this release is intended for developers and testers only.
This Alpha [...]
Last night Mozilla started offering a major update for Firefox 2.0.0.16 users to Firefox 3.0.1, the current version.
Firefox 2 users will have the option to postpone the update for 24 hours (clicking on Later), or start the update right away (clicking on Get the new version). Pressing Never however doesn’t really mean never but “much [...]
Mozilla Corp. Thursday announced the winners of its third “Extend Firefox” contest, an annual competition that recognizes the year’s best Firefox add-ons.
This year’s contest, which launched in March and brought in more than 100 entries, focused on add-ons that took advantage of Mozilla’s newest open-source browser, Firefox 3.0.
Mozilla unveiled the final version of Firefox 3.0 [...]
Firefox includes a great deal of functionality for day-to-day web browsing, but it’s capable of so much more. Simon Pickstock cherry picks the best extensions to make your internet life super-productive…
Firefox 3 may have introduced a number of new features, but it is the ability to add extra functionality with the use of extensions that [...]
Developers from Nokia and Mozilla have been working hard to port the Mozilla Platform and Firefox to Qt and there are now some solid results available. An experimental build of Firefox Qt is available, and you can download the sources from Mozilla’s mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central [...]
Mozilla is moving forward on a number of initiatives to ensure that Internet security improves. Among the efforts is a new approach for determining and measuring security metrics.
With more than 170 million users, Mozilla has a large footprint of Web surfers using its Firefox browser. As such it’s in an enviable position to help not [...]
Firefox’s default bookmarks remain painfully limited. They collect only URLS, which can only be organized with annotations and folders. JetArk’s Jeteye extension, with its promise to “super-power your bookmarks” promises features more suitable for modern Web browsing. With “jetpaks” that resemble the containers available in the Basket desktop note application, Jeteye largely delivers on this [...]
Mozilla Firefox 3 limits usable encrypted (SSL) web sites to those who are willing to pay money to one of their approved digital certificate vendors. This policy is bad for the web. Not only does it make users less secure overall by reducing the number of encrypted connections, it damages the basic principle of equality [...]
The team at Net Applications via their Market Share service have collected some very interesting numbers as it pertains to the current generation browser wars.
With browser market share, Firefox is at 19.22% across all operating systems. In third place is Safari at 6.14% - which shows you it pays to trick people [...]