Five critical patches for Firefox 2

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The Mozilla team has fixed a total of twelve security problems in its new version 2.0.0.15 of Firefox. Five are classed as critical, i.e. could allow the injection of external code. The development team has not yet revealed the details behind each patch – the links to the specific bug ...

Firefox 3 Hits 17.3 Million Downloads

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Since launch last week in excess of 17.3 million downloads of Firefox 3 have taken place. The browser saw 8 million downloads within the first 24-hours of its release, more than ever downloaded in a single day before and a statistic currently being considered for inclusion within the Guinness Book of ...

Tweak Firefox to Display Richer Colors

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that's because Firefox 3's advanced color management capability isn't turned on by default. To turn it on, type about:config in Firefox 3's address bar, then click the "I'll ...

Firefox 3 suffers its first vulnerability

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Less than one day after its launch, Firefox 3 has a vulnerability. According to Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative, the vulnerability, which it rates as critical, was reported within the first five hours of Firefox 3's release. "Once the vulnerability was verified in TippingPoint's DVLabs and acquired from the researcher, the vulnerability ...

Firefox 3 Coming June 17th

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Whenever we’re asked “when is Firefox going to be released” we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we’ll only ever ship “when it’s ready”. We have a lot of indicators that help us understand when the product is ready ...