Mozilla Plugin Check

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web ...

Mozilla Tests More Secure Firefox

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 ...

Your Web Browser Knows Where You Are

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 ...

Firefox 3.5.3 Released!

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

Mozilla Expands on Plugin Protection Plans

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on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.In a comment in that same blog, in response to a question I asked, Mozilla's Director of Evangelism Christopher Blizzard added a few more points: ...