Web browser news as it happens
In: Firefox
4 Mar 2010Mozilla is hard at work on the next version of Firefox, and the latest alpha builds include out-of-process support for plugins.
“Plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted” said an announcement [...]
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8 Feb 2010Mozilla appears to have let it’s guard down, with a Firefox add-on that included a Trojan that could allow remote access to a users PC.
Two add-ons were affected; Master Filer which was infected with a password-stealing Trojan called Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Sothink Web Video Downloader which was infected with a backdoor Trojan called Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose.
Mozilla has issued [...]
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19 Jan 2010Mozilla has pushed out a second release candidate for Firefox 3.6.
The update is said to close a security flaw, of which very little details are available.
Current Firefox 3.6 testers will receive the update automatically, or it can be downloaded from the Firefox Beta website.
Firefox 3.6 final was expected today, but is now expected on January [...]
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7 Jan 2010Mozilla have pushed out two updates for Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.
The updates are merely bug fixes, resolving issues that could crash the browser. A full list of changes can be found in the Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17 release notes.
The updates will be pushed out to existing Firefox users, or can be downloaded manually [...]
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22 Dec 2009Mozilla contributor Stephen Horlander is still hard at work, sharing his ideas for a revamped Windows 7 theme for Firefox 4.0.
According to Horlander, the expected Firefox facelift is now solely expected in Firefox 4, and not gradually through Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 4.0.
In this revision, the Application button (marked #1 on the mockup above) has [...]
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21 Dec 2009And just when we were hoping to see Firefox 3.6 before Christmas, Mozilla has pushed out another beta release for the browser.
This update fixes over 100 bugs from the last beta, and is an automatic update for current Firefox 3.6 Beta users.
Firefox 3.6 final is now not expected before early 2010.
A full list of changes [...]
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16 Dec 2009Mozilla have pushed out updates to users of Firefox 3 and 3.5. The updates include several security and stability fixes.
Firefox 3.5.6 fixes 3 critical, 1 high, 2 moderate, and 1 low level security vulnerabilities.
Firefox 3.0.16 fixes 1 critical, 1 high, 2 moderate, and 1 low level security vulnerabilities.
A full list of changes can be found [...]
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27 Nov 2009Mozilla have pushed out the latest Firefox 3.6 beta, taking it to beta 4.
The update mostly fixes existing bugs (131 to be exact), but also includes support the HTML5 file API.
A full list of changes for Firefox 3.6 can be found in the release notes, while the browser can be downloaded from the Firefox beta [...]
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18 Nov 2009In it’s third release in two weeks, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 beta 3.
The update includes 84 bug fixes, but gone, surprisingly is support for Windows 7 features, including tab preview and jump lists – perhaps the most anticipated feature of Firefox 3.6. The feature is now expected to reappear in Firefox 3.7.
This release is [...]
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12 Nov 2009Just 10 days after the release of Firefox 3.6 beta 1, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 beta 2.
Over 190 bugs has been fixed since beta 1, dramatically increasing the browsers performance.
A new feature has emerged in this beta, as a new mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox (specifically DLL files in Windows).
A [...]