Tag Archives: Mozilla
Mozilla launches Firefox 3.5.4, closes 16 vulnerabilities
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla has just released a minor but still significant update to its popular Firefox web browser. Version 3.5.4 is essentially focused on security and stability improvements, closing a as much as 11 critical vulnerabilities among a total of 16. These include problems with third-party media libraries, the core and JavaScript engines, web worker calls, the [...]
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Mozilla unveils plug-in check service for Firefox
Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
In an update to its Firefox browser last month, Mozilla introduced a new feature to warn users of outdated and possibly insecure plug-ins, prompting them via the “What’s New” landing page to download a new version if available. Although initially this only covered Flash Player installations, the idea was to extend this check to include [...]
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Firefox to introduce Office-esque menu ribbon
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla is taking Firefox down a new (and somewhat unexpected) road in the near future. Among the usual security and performance enhancements, it seems the user interface is due for an overhaul. Most likely starting with the release of the Firefox 3.7 branch, Mozilla is replacing the traditional menu system with a ribbon menu, very [...]
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Optimize Firefox Performance Via Defragmentation Add-on Applications
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla Firefox browser version 3 and above stores a variety of configuration data such as bookmarks, history, RSS feeds, cookies, etc in its self managed and self contained SQLite databases. Over time, the database will get fragmented. The size of the database will get inflated with more and more junk data mixed together with real [...]
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Firefox 3.6 to arrive this year, 4.0 in late 2010
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
Although Mozilla released Firefox version 3.5 not long ago, the team has been showing mockups of future designs. In addition to embracing glass on Windows Vista and 7, future versions will have reorganized interfaces. Previews of Firefox 4.0 suggest that it may have a combined and relocated reload, stop and go buttons, as well as [...]
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Mozilla releases Flash-checking Firefox 3.5.3
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
Anyone making use of the Firefox 3.5.x branch will want to snag the latest update, which Mozilla has just pushed out. Firefox 3.5.3 is now available for download and is primarily focused on security and stability. A total of nine bugs marked as “Critical” were taken care of, among a laundry list of 43 total, [...]
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 available now
Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla recently introduced the first alpha release for the upcoming build of their popular browser, Firefox 3.6. Codenamed “Namoroka” Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 is intended for developers only, and offers quite a long list of bug fixes as well as some performance tweaks.
Among the changes worth mentioning is an updated version of the TraceMonkey JavaScript [...]
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Download Firefox 3.5.1 To Fix JavaScript Vulnerability in Firefox 3.5
Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla has detected and discovered some serious security problems in the lately released Firefox 3.5 browser. According to Mozilla, there is a critical JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox 3.5 browser and this security loophole will allow hackers to attack and execute malicious codes on the computer running with the browser. To avoid further damage, Mozilla [...]
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Multi-process support in Firefox gets closer to reality
Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla has made dramatic improvements when it comes to speed in recent times, but one feature its Firefox browser notably lacks compared to Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 is multi-process browsing. As we’ve mentioned before, there are several benefits of having each page or tab run in a separate process, not the least of [...]
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Mozilla finally releases Firefox 3.5
Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Joseph.
Following several test versions and on the very last day of its self imposed deadline, Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.5 to the world. Originally dubbed 3.1, the new version brings a private browsing mode, support for emerging HTML 5 standards, location-aware browsing, a reduced memory footprint, updated anti-malware and anti-phishing features, improved tabs and more. [...]
