Google Responds to Mozilla’s Bumped Cash Rewards

Just a week ago, Mozilla has significantly increased its cash rewards for security vulnerability reports, from mere $500 to $3,000.

Turns out, Google has also decided to increase its maximum reward salary to $3,133.7 USD.

In addition, company is “very likely” to pay such amount for all critical vulnerability reports.

Thanks to Blake for the news tip.

Mozilla Bumps Cash Rewards for Security Vulnerabilities Reports

In what appears to be a great benefit for Firefox users, Mozilla has recently bumped its cash rewards salary from mere $500 to $3000. Therefore, it will likely increase Firefox security, as developers are keen on finding and reporting new security vulnerabilities.

In addition, company has announced that this offer not only includes Firefox, but also Firefox Mobile web browser.

Mozilla Removes Password Sniffer Add-On

It looks like Mozilla has decided to remove and block “Mozilla Sniffer” add-on from addons.mozilla.org website after its review. In addition, blocklist will ask users for such extension uninstallation. Before deletion, add-on was already downloaded 1,800 times and is used by 334 people daily.
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Download Firefox 4 Beta

Mozilla has just released the long awaited beta of Firefox 4 web browser.

Besides a lot of cosmetic changes (new Linux and Mac user interface is coming soon) and performance improvements, Firefox 4 also introduces everyone’s bellowed accelerated hardware support, as well as: new add-ons manager and extensions management API, full WebGL support and more.
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Firefox Co-Founder is Skeptical about Firefox Growth

Blake Ross, the co-founder of Firefox web browser appears to be skeptical about Firefox growth.

Answering to one of the Quora (questions/answers community) members questions (Will Firefox have double-digit market share in 3 to 5 years), he said:

I’m pretty skeptical. I think the Mozilla Organization has gradually reverted back to its old ways of being too timid, passive and consensus-driven to release breakthrough products quickly.

Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly has also responded with the following comment:
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Weekly Browsers Recap, May 31st

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• Windows Phone 7 to Feature Upgradeable Internet Explorer
With many mobile web browser choices floating around, Internet Explorer is certainly not one of them.

• Synchronize Between Firefox and iPhone with Firefox Home
Mozilla has recently announced an upcoming project that is “Firefox Home”.

• Google Releases Chrome 5 Stable
Few days ago, Google has released the final version of Google Chrome 5 web browser, tagged as version 5.0.375.55, for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Read more

Synchronize Between Firefox and iPhone with Firefox Home

Mozilla has recently announced an upcoming project that is “Firefox Home”.

What is it?
Firefox Home is a simple iPhone application (based on Weave Sync), that allows iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad users to access their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and tabs from their most recent browsing session.

Furthermore, it allows you to use Awesome Bar without Firefox browser itself. Read more

Boom! John Lilly Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

It’s been barely two years since John Lilly became a CEO of Mozilla Corporation, and as it appears, he won’t be staying in this position any longer.

Mitchell Baker, the former CEO of Mozilla Corp has published the following announcement:

“Sometime this year John will step down from his role as CEO at Mozilla to join the venture firm Greylock Partners, returning to his original plan of investing. John will remain on the Board of the Mozilla Corporation. And he will also remain at Mozilla during the transition. The timing of this announcement — just as we begin a formal search for a new CEO — is to make this process more open than is generally the case and is a reflection of the uniqueness of Mozilla as a public benefit organization dedicated to openness and participation in Internet life.”

John Lilly has wrote a post about his decision as well.

Weekly Browsers Recap, April 12th

• A Closer Look at Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Acceleration Through Flying Images
• Microsoft: IE9 Preview Downloads Taking Off
• Microsoft finally to close the VBScript hole in Internet Explorer
• Mozilla’s Q1 2010 Analyst Report – State of the Internet
• Aza Raskin Joining Firefox
• Firefox with Direct2D: Speed you can feel
• Firefox 3.6.3 security update now available
• Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 security updates now available
• Improved Flash Player Support in Chrome
• Dev update: Integrated Adobe Flash Player Plug-in
• We will launch 3D apps via Chrome soon
• Google Chrome Developer Update – Geolocation and Incognito Extensions
• Is Apple giving Opera for iPhone the Google Voice treatment?
• Opera Mini Sees 50.5 Million Mobile Users In February, Up 145 Percent
• Opera to showcase revenue-generating Web solutions at NAB 2010
• The big change coming to Safari 5: Kernel-level multi-processing
• Plugging the CSS History Leak
• Privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
• Javascript in the commandline
• Interesting times for Video on the Web
• Quake 2 running in HTML5 browsers
• First look: Skyfire for Android
• LG ships first phone with HTML5 browser
  Thanks to Andrew, Daniel Hendrycks, Demir Lugonic, mabdul, Nab and Nox for links.

  P.S. Sorry for missing last week’s recap and some news (was traveling + missed flight back), still catching up :-)

Google Bundles Flash to Chrome

After some rumors floating around, it’s now official. Google has announced its partnership with Adobe and its plans to integrate Flash player into Chrome browser. In fact, latest dev build already offers that.

Adobe, Google and Mozilla are also working closely together on the next generation browser plug-in API, which is set to address “the shortcomings of the current browser plug-in model”. Read more

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