Category: Firefox
Majority Of Web Browsers Are Unpatched
Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of security risk and compliance management provider Qualys, revealed that approximately 80% of web browsers are susceptible to exploits of bugs that have already been patched. Kandek attributed this mostly to Windows, saying “All the different patching mechanisms are confusing, a bit of this and some of that.”
As discovered by BrowserCheck (which scans Windows, Mac and Linux machines for vulnerable browsers along with browser plug-ins), Oracle’s Java was the most probable plug-in to be outdated for the second year in a row, comprising a total of 40% scanned systems. Adobe’s Reader and Apple’s QuickTime were second and third, taking up 32% and 25% respectively.
Proposed solutions include:
- Microsoft taking charge of patching crucial third party plug-ins via single updater.
- Moving to HTML5, so browsers would no longer require various audio and video processing plug-ins.
Director of Firefox Leaves Mozilla
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s Director if Firefox will be leaving company right after Firefox 4 Final release.
For around six years (sine Firefox 1.5), he has been leading development of the open-source browser and assures everyone that this wasn’t really an easy decision to make.
It’s not a choice I made lightly, I can assure you. I’m incredibly eager to see how Mozilla continues to evolve, shifting its strategy to the new world in which the Web is not just alive and thriving, but evolving and transforming daily
As for the future, Mike is planning to join Dug as product strategist.
Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, February 14th
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- Download Internet Explorer 9 RC
- Firefox 5, 6 and 7 Coming in 2011
- Firefox 5 with Windows 64 Bit Support Coming
- Download Firefox 4 Beta 11
- Firefox Ignores Font Family?
- Firefox Borrows Google’s Chrome Update Procedure
- Opera: 100 000 000 Mobile Users
- Download Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Final
- CSS Checkbox Styling Nightmare (Pic)
- HTML5: Framerate Fest
Download Firefox 4 Beta 11
A week of Firefox news.
As many people eagerly await the final version of Firefox 4, here comes the next-to-last beta build of this web browser.
With nearly 350 bugs fixed, this update also brings a couple of new features and enhancements:
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Firefox Ignores Font Family?
If you’ve been using Arial Narrow, Arial Black or similar fonts and they are not recognized in Firefox web browser while styling UL LI listings; here are a few ways to fix it:
– If you are not a web developer:
Tools > Options > Advanced > General Tab
Uncheck “Use hardware acceleration when available”
Restart Firefox
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Firefox Borrows Google’s Chrome Update Procedure
If you’ve been using Google Chrome for a long time, then it’s pretty clear to you that to check for updates, all you have to do is go to:
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CSS Checkbox Styling Nightmare (Pic)
It looks like a simple checkbox is one of the hardest things to style (unless you use JS).
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Firefox 5, 6 and 7 Coming in 2011
Pushes turbo button.
It looks like Mozilla is following Google’s Chrome path and will be releasing not 1 but 3 “major” Firefox versions this year.
According to the official roadmap, the following goals were set:
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Firefox 5 with Windows 64 Bit Support Coming
Best news in a decade.
With the release of 64 Bit Adobe Flash Player, there are no more excuses not to develop a native 64 Bit web browser build.
Good news, the upcoming Firefox 5 will indeed offer a 64 Bit flavor on Windows.
In addition, Mozilla’s next generation web browser is also set to introduce the following improvements:
Account Manager
Simple Sharing UI
UI Animation
ETA: 2011.
What are the advantages? See the following post.
Source: Mozilla
Fix Different Color in Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Chrome Issue
If you see a color difference in Internet Explorer (when compared to other browsers, such as: Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.), then here your reason:
In case those are PNG images, Adobe Photoshop stores gamma data inside them which is causing image colors to differ in IE7.
How to solve it?
Download PngCrush, PNGOut or similar tools and optimize images.
