Archive for November, 2007
Poor Guy and Opera Mini
Funny things can happen while you are using Opera Mini.
It’s a story about one guy who fills an unemployment claim (see his blog for more details) using Opera Mini and “Oregon Dept of Unemployment” rejects it. Why? Here’s an answer.
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Firefox 2.0.0.10 Portable Edition Released
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.
Check “Firefox 2.0.0.10 Is Here” topic for the changelog.
Download Firefox 2.0.0.10 Portable Edition.
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Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.4 Released
It was just released and fixes security vulnerabilities which were originally fixed by Mozilla Firefox team in Firefox 2.0.0.10 (read about fixes here).
Download Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.4.
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Firefox 2.0.0.10 Is Here
Firefox 2.0.0.10 is now released and fixes a total of 3 security vulnerabilities.
Gregory Fleischer demonstrated that it was possible to generate a fake HTTP Referer header by exploiting a timing condition when setting the window.location property. This could be used to conduct a Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack against websites that rely only on the Referer header as protection against such attacks… Read more
The jar: URI scheme was introduced as a mechanism to support digitally signed web pages, enabling web sites to load pages packaged in zip archives containing signatures in java-archive format.
Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov point out this means that sites that allow users to upload binary content in zip format are effectively allowing users to install web pages on their site, and these can be used to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks… Read more
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Opera Mini 4 Hits One Million Downloads in 10 Days
It looks like Opera Mini 4 release was really successful. This mobile web browser, which was released just about two weeks ago already reached one million downloads in a 10 days period.
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Opera Mobile Wins Mobile Web Browser Awards
Congratulations to the whole Opera Software team who’ve won an award in Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine in the following category:
Pocket PC: Internet: Browsers and Web Utilities.
Finalists: Opera Mini, ThunderHawk
Winner: Opera Mobile
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SpreadFirefox.com (Spread Firefox) Gets a Face Lift
More news about web pages design. Seems both, Mozilla and Opera are preparing for their new web browsers launch.
If you haven’t seen yet; check the brand new SpreadFirefox.com web page design. Looks cool, doesn’t it?
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First Look at New Firefox Product Page Design
With the upcoming Firefox 3 release, Mozilla team is currently working on a new Mozilla.org web page look. Its landing page should be finished somewhere in December, as for now, here’s a first look to Firefox product page on which they are still working.
New one (not finished yet)
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Camino Now Accepting Donations
Camino web browser development team recently announced that from now they will be accepting donations. And here’s the most interesting part of it:
Through the end of the year the Mozilla Foundation will match 2 to 1 every dollar donated (up to $10,000). Donating now makes your dollar go three times as far as it normally would.
What is Camino?
Camino is an open-source web browser developed by an all-volunteer team. While most web browsers are funded through search revenues, Camino is supported by volunteer efforts, gifts of kindness from contributors, and donations from users.
Donate to Camino.
Camino Web Browser Home Page
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Opera 9.5 Beta, Weekly Build
Everyone is working on their web browsers (weapons) in order to win web browsers war. Opera team is doing that as well… Recently they have updated us with one more weekly release. By the way, this version supports MathML (read more about it). Let’s go straight to the changelog and check what’s new in it.
New features
Bugs fixed
getSeconds() no longer returns -1
Mac specific
UNIX specific
Known issues
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Build 9656)
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Classic Installer) (Build 9656)
Download Opera 9.5 for Macintosh (Build 4544)
Download Opera 9.5 for UNIX (Build 1669)
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