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 ...
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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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Monday, June 15th, 2009
This is a method of sniffing your browsing history without using Javascript. If you haven't cleaned your browsing history recently, just click "Start Scan" and the system will get to work.
If this doesn't shock you, it should: websites are not supposed to see this information. It has potential for anyone, ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Researchers at Websense have discovered a mass injection attack that is redirecting Web browsers to a malware-bearing site.
According to a weekend report by researchers at Websense, thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site.
"The active ...
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