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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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22 Jan 2010As announced yesterday, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 right as expected at 9:30 PST.
Firefox includes many new features, including:
Support for a new type of theme called Personas
Checks for out-of-date plugins
Full screen support for HTML5 <video> tags
More HTML5 element support
Improved JavaScript speed and stability
Plus more
A full list of changes in Firefox 3.6 can be found in [...]
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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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12 Jan 2010Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). This means the browser now contains the final set of changes and new features, and will now only concentrate on bugs that would stop the browser from being released.
Firefox 3.6 RC1 fixes almost 100 bugs since Beta 5, but there are no other new features [...]
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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 [...]
Firefox Mobile RC 1 (formerly known as Fennec) is now available for Nokia’s Maemo mobile platform.
This includes devices such as the Nokia N900 and N810.
Firefox Mobile is essentially Firefox 3.5 under the hod, with a new graphical user interface for the mobile device. This means that you get the same rendering engine (supporting some HTML5 [...]
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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 [...]
In: Firefox
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 [...]