Newest Firefox Beta has Critical Flaws, Mozilla Admits

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Mozilla has identified 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0, three of them pegged "critical," but won't decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a second release candidate (RC2). "We are making a go/no go decision early next week, as we are ...

Top 10 Firefox 3 Features

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla's finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so ...

Firefox Heap Corruption

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I forgot to tell you all about this actually. I found this about 8 months back and never discussed it for various reasons. Since I saw that Mozilla has fixed a lot of memory leaks inside Firefox 2/3, I guess it's safe to say I can talk about this now. ...

Firefox developers tinker with new security protections

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Developers of the Firefox browser are designing new technologies aimed at protecting users from some of the nastiest and most prevalent forms of website attacks. One protection is designed to minimize end users' risk to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and cross-site request forgeries (CSRFs), both of which subvert basic internet security ...

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Released

Friday, May 16th, 2008

If you are already running a BETA version of Firefox 3 just go to Help > Check for Updates. Or you can download it and try it here: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html