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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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Firefox 3.0.7 has been released today and this version fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.6.
Fixed several security issues:
-URL spoofing with invisible control characters
-Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
-XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect
-Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
-Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Fixed ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
By now, most of us are aware of the potential privacy risks posed by Web cookies. But according to a new paper published by security consultancy iSec Partners, traditional browser-based cookies aren't the only technology used to store user data anymore. A number of browser plug-ins offer similar capabilities -- ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at ...
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