Thursday, July 30th, 2009 I had incredible timing tonight for wanting to change my email address and caught this expired certificate warning when loading profile.microsoft.com. I'm sure it will be fixed soon so I wanted to document it.
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.Some of the notable features are:Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Torfox is a mash-up between Firefox and Tor. Ideally, we want to completely remove all direct communication between Firefox and the localhost. Instead, all address lookups are done through tor-resolve and all connections are made through tor socks server. Right now the project only works on Windows and relies on ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Firefox 3.0.11 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.10:JavaScript chrome privilege escalation
XUL scripts bypass content-policy checks
Incorrect principal set for file: resources loaded via location bar
Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element whose owner document is null
Race condition while accessing the private data of a NPObject JS wrapper ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Being safe while you surf the Web is extremely important, yet safe surfing sometimes seems like an oxymoron. For users of the Firefox browser, downloading security extensions can help increase your level of protection from worms, hackers, phishers, and the like.I should note that even with these extensions installed, you ...
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