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If Browsers Were Women

By Alejandro Yee Cota | March 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

eBay Scammers Work Unpatched Vulns in Firefox, IE

By Vygantas | March 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

From TheRegister:

“eBay scammers have been exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers to deliver counterfeit pages that try to dupe people surfing the online auction house to bid on fraudulent listings.”

Continue reading at The Register

Firefox – Buggier but Fixes Issues Faster

By Alejandro Yee Cota | March 9, 2009 | 7 Comments

During 2008 Firefox reported 115 flaws. That’s more than Safari (32), Opera (30) and Internet Explorer (31) combined. However, Firefox fixes the issues way faster than any other company.

The research was made by Secunia. (see pdf)

Via news.cnet.com

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New Tab Page Proposal for Firefox

By Alejandro Yee Cota | March 6, 2009 | 15 Comments

After being introduced by Opera in the 2007, most of the other web browsers started to release their own modifications of speed dial. For example: Chrome’s Homepage or Safari’s Top Sites.

Firefox labs has decided to implement a speed dial like feature by default. No, not the on similar to Google’s Chrome home pages. Continue Reading

Firefox 3.0.7 Released

By Vygantas | March 5, 2009 | 0 Comments

As reported yesterday, Firefox 3.0x branch security and stability update 3.0.7 has been released and can be downloaded here.

Firefox 3.0.7 includes 3 new languages: Estonian, Kannada, and Telugu as well as various fixes.

For a complete list of changes, please check “What’s New in Firefox 3.0.7” section.

Firefox 3.1 Gone, Welcome Firefox 3.5

By Vygantas | March 5, 2009 | 3 Comments

The upcoming Firefox release (Shiretoko) which is currently in development will be released as Firefox 3.5 instead of the planed 3.1. It should be noted, that Firefox Beta 3 which is going to be released within 5 days will still have 3.1 tag.

According to the meeting notes, the following decision was made due to many changes, or as it says “3.1 -> 3.5 to indicate increased scope”

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Firefox 3.0.7 and Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Release Dates

By Vygantas | March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

The third and long awaited beta of Firefox 3.1 series will be released on March 10th.

As for Firefox 3.0.7 security and stability update, it’s coming tomorrow.

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Flock Dumps Mozilla’s Firefox, Welcomes Google Chrome

By Vygantas | March 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

TechCrunch is reporting that the upcoming version of social browser Flock will be built on Google’s Chrome platform.

Why they are dumping Mozilla’s Firefox? While there are no official statements on this decision, TechCrunch writes:

“Sources say that they’ve become frustrated with Mozilla’s lack of attention to Flock’s needs. One source says Flock felt like the “red headed step child of the Mozilla development community.” Sources are also saying that Flock feels that Google Chrome is far easier to work with than Firefox.” Continue Reading