Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Previous versions of Firefox had the option to block or allow 3rd party cookies removed from the GUI and completely hidden from view. You had to go to about:config and change the value of network.cookie.cookieBehavior to "1" if you wanted to block them, or keep it at it's default of ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Mozilla has released yet another beta version of the next generation Firefox web browser. Firefox 3 beta 5 doesn't have a ton of new features, but it fixes a lot of bugs and packs a bunch of under the hood tweaks that make the browser easier to use and more ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 The Mozilla project is distributing version 2.0.0.13 of its popular open source Firefox browser. This release fixes several critical vulnerabilities which could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code or fake page content.The browser's JavaScript engine contains several of the security vulnerabilities. Due to incorrect processing, attackers can execute ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 You installed Firefox. How do you make it more secure for daily use? How do the Mozilla developers ensure that they are doing all the right things? How do you safely browse the Internet?These are not easy questions to answer, and some of the answers will be system/OS-dependent.Security functionality in ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 If you use QuickTime or iTunes on Windows you might have seen something like this lately from your Apple Software Updates applet:
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