Update your browsers!
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Today, Firefox moved up to 3.6.11 and Google Chrome (stable release) moved up to 7.0.517.41. Lots of security fixes in these new versions.
Today, Firefox moved up to 3.6.11 and Google Chrome (stable release) moved up to 7.0.517.41. Lots of security fixes in these new versions.
Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing
Friday, December 11th, 2009Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt."I think judgment matters," said Schmidt. "If you have something ...
Firefox 3.6 to prevent harmful add-ons
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009The soon-to-be shipped version 3.6 of the Firefox browser will have a new feature that will make it more stable. It is called Component Directory Lockdown, and it prevents third-party applications (add-ons and plugins) to store their own code into the "components" directory, where most of Firefox's own code is ...
Mozilla fixes 16 flaws with Firefox 3.5.4
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Mozilla today patched 16 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 11 of them critical, as it updated the open-source browser to version 3.5.4.The 11 critical Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities were located in a variety of components, including Web worker calls, the GIF color map parser, the string-to-number converter, a trio of third-party media libraries, ...
Sneaky Microsoft plugin puts Firefox users at risk
Friday, October 16th, 2009An add-on that Microsoft silently slipped into Mozilla's Firefox last February leaves that browser open to attack, Microsoft's security engineers acknowledged earlier this week. One of the 13 security bulletins Microsoft released Tuesday affects not only Internet Explorer (IE), but also Firefox, thanks to a Microsoft-made plug-in pushed to Firefox users ...
