Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Mozilla on Wednesday posted preview builds of its Firefox browser with security enhancements designed to mitigate the risk of certain Web attacks.In a blog post, Brandon Sterne, security program manager for Mozilla, asks security researchers and server administrators to help test the changes by downloading a build appropriate for their ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Allowing your Web browser to determine your physical location opens the door to some seriously nifty features. Some iPhone apps (such as Yelp for iPhone) can help you find nearby restaurants, bookstores, or other places within walking distance, for example. But such functionality, available in the newest Firefox and in ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Firefox 3.5.3 fixes the following security issues:Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)Help > Check for Updates or download here:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Mozilla has expanded on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.In a comment in that same blog, in response to a question I asked, Mozilla's Director of Evangelism Christopher Blizzard added a few more points: ...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 FireMaster is the first ever built tool to recover the lost master password in Firefox. Master password is used by Firefox to protect the stored sign-on information for all visited websites. If the master password is forgotten, then there is no way to recover the master password and user will ...
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