The second public step towards the next significant release of Mozilla Firefox 3, the well known, loved and growing browser. Firefox 3 Beta 2 includes approximately 900 improvements over Firefox 3 Beta 1, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.

Features and release notes:
- Improved security features: protection from cross-site JSON data leaks, tighter restrictions on site-specific content using effective TLD service, better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, version checking for insecure plugins.
- Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.
- Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart bookmark folders, location bar that matches against your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
- Improved platform features: new graphics and font rendering architecture, JavaScript 1.8, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, color profile management, and offline application support.
- Performance improvements: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 330 memory leak fixes, a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks, and reductions in the memory footprint.

Download Firefox 3 Beta 2

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Just 3 days after releasing Firefox 2.0.0.10 another update was released, this time a stability update: - fixed a bug introduced by the 2.0.0.10 update in the <canvas> feature that affected some web pages and extensions.

There are no security bug fixes in this release.

Download Firefox 2.0.0.11

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This is a security update for Firefox and the following bugs were fixed:

- Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition
- Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10)
- jar: URI scheme XSS hazard

Download Firefox 2.0.0.10

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The first public step towards the next significant release of Mozilla Firefox, the well known and loved browser, was made.

New features and changes include:

Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.

Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X.

Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typing in location bar searches your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.

Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.

Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 300 memory leak fixes, and a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks.

Here you can download Firefox 3 Beta 1 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

There's already an add-on available for RAM memory issues in Firefox to help you.

The final release date for Firefox 3 was not specified, but many are expecting it to come in the first quarter of 2008.

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Mozilla Betas Thunderbird 2.0
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Review: Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1 Adds New Look And Feel
Mozilla, the developer of the free Thunderbird e-mail client, has taken a good program and made it better with the release of the version 2.0 beta 1 ... read more

Mozilla betas Thunderbird 2
Mozilla has released a first beta of Thunderbird 2, the next generation of its standalone email client. A redesigned visual theme ... read more

Opera browser adds phishing filter
Now Opera added phishing filter. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) and Mozilla's
Firefox 2.0 browsers also include filters that block phishing sites ... read more

Mozilla makes available Mozilla Thunderbird 2 beta
Open source foundation Mozilla just recently released the first alpha of the Firefox 3 web browser. They have now released the first ... read more

Hibernating laptop does use memory
How can I stop this? A: Mozilla's Firefox browser can save information you have previously typed into Web forms and search boxes ... read more

Mozilla to release Firefox 3.0 next year
Despite the fact that Firefox 2.0 was only released last month, Mozilla is to release the new version of its browser as early as next year ... read more

Intalio Open Sources BPMS Under Mozilla Public License
Intalio, the Open Source BPMS Company, has announced that Intalio BPMS Community Edition will be released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) amended with ... read more

Firefox, Take 3
Maybe I'll be more bowled over by Firefox 3.0, which is now in alpha (just the fact that Mozilla doesn't invent new terms for alphas and betas is enough reason ... read more

Mozilla Firefox gaining market share
Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has reportedly gained some market share. This gain has come at the expense of Microsoft Internet ... read more

Mozilla releases beta version of Thunderbird 2.0
Mozilla has released a beta version of version 2 of its Thunderbird email client, which for the first time incorporates tagging ... read more

Labels: around-the-world, mozilla

Mozilla puts up alpha version of Firefox 3.0
Mozilla fans still starry-eyed from the recent release of Firefox 2.0 can already get a glimpse at what the next version of the browser will ...
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/08/firefox_30_alpha/

Closer ties for Mozilla, Linux programmers
Programmers from Red Hat, Novell and the Mozilla Foundation have pledged closer cooperation to ease technical obstacles that exist today, work planned to ...
http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6141050.html

The World Economic Forum Announces Technology Pioneers 2007
The World Economic Forum today announced 47 Technology Pioneers for 2007. Mozilla has been selected as one of these Technology Pioneers.
http://www.assodigitale.it/content/view/2264/31/

Mozilla heads to Cairo for Firefox 3
Code-named Gran Paradiso, the test version of the browser uses the latest, 1.9 version of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. ... Mozilla warns that Gecko 1.9. ...
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=99757

Mozilla to Work More with Linux Distros
Mozilla and interested Linux distro maintainers will be cooperating more in the future with new releases. Distro specific releases ...
http://technocrat.net/d/2006/12/10/12018

Firefox 3 alpha unleashed
Mozilla released an alpha version of Firefox 3, targeted at developers, on Friday in a bid to make sure the foundations of the next version of its browser are ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/11/firefox_3_alpha/

Labels: around-the-world, mozilla

The World Economic Forum today announced 47 Technology Pioneers for 2007.

Mozilla has been selected as one of these Technology Pioneers. The Technology Pioneers were nominated by the world’s leading venture capital and technology companies. The final selection from 225 nominees was made by a panel of leading technology experts appointed by the World Economic Forum ... read more

Labels: mozilla, short-news, technology

Techworld has chased down a series of half-truths, unsubstantiated accusations and mysterious goings-on surrounding a sponsored survey. In fact, this time it was three sponsored surveys, all on the exact same topic. Phishing sites are present in huge numbers these days, and anti-phishing solutions are selling points for the two new browsers - Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. It makes good sense then to run these tests covering every product in the market ... read more

Labels: firefox, microsoft, mozilla, short-news

Is MySpace to blame for Firefox and IE password fault?
UPDATE: Users of both Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer are at risk of having their saved passwords stolen, according to security ...
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/11/27/is-myspace-to-blame-for-firefox-and-ie-password-fault/

Critical flaw in Firefox and IE allows password theft
Users of both Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer are at risk of having their saved passwords stolen, according to security researcher ...

Mozilla vs. Debian: A Crazy Dispute
Unless you have been living under a rock, by now most of you have likely heard about the trouble between Debian and Mozilla with regards to the ...
http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7661

Flimsy filters won't cut phishing lines
According to a test commissioned by Mozilla and carried out by SmartWare, Firefox 2.0 blocks around 80 percent of known phishing URLs and Internet Explorer 7 ...
http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/comment/2169626/flimsy-filters-won-cut-phishing

Labels: around-the-world, mozilla

Network Security Firefox 2 Browser Struck by Password Flaw
The Mozilla Foundation, which maintains code for the Firefox browser, has acknowledged that there is a problem with the Firefox Password Manager and has named ...
http://www.cio-today.com/news/Firefox-2-Hit-by-Password-Vulnerability/story.xhtml?story_id=1200044XT8ZC

Flaw renders Firefox vulnerable to information theft
... their protected information. Both Mozilla and Microsoft have acknowledged the problem and are working on fixes. The information ...
http://www.biz-day.com/read/telecom_and_technology/24_nov_06/h3tyi-u/flaw_renders_firefox_vulnerable_information_theft.htm

Labels: firefox, mozilla

Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. ...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6137844.html

McAfee in anti-phishing confusion
... of anti-phishing technologies, one (sponsored by Microsoft) rated Internet Explorer highest, while the second (carried out on behalf of Mozilla) put the latest ...
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/spam_news/2006/11_22.xml

Portable Apps Suite Lets Software Programs Run on iPod
PortableApps.com has launched Portable Apps Suite and the latest version of its Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition. With more than ...
http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,13671,p,0.html

Migrating from Mail 2.0 to Thunderbird 1.5
... Firefox 2.0's recent release will no doubt draw attention to other Mozilla products, such as Thunderbird 1.5 and entice users into trying out the open source ...
http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/1661/

Is PlayStation 3 able to run Office?
... a PPC build of it. That includes most major applications like Mozilla Firefox, VLC player, and more.". Well, Codeweavers may have ...
http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/009012.html

Ubuntu Security Notice - mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-382-1 November 16, 2006 mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities CVE-2006-5462 ...
http://www.net-security.org/advisory.php?id=6945

Labels: around-the-world, mozilla

Two months ago, Microsoft's research results said its phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7 is superior to the one included in Mozilla's Firefox2.

But, Mozilla selected a testing company SmartWare to do a similar comparison. Not surprisingly, the results were different: Firefox2 offers more effective phishing protection than IE7. Testers ran several known phishing Web sites through both IE7 and Firefox2. They found that, with the basic phishing protection enabled, Firefox caught 78.85 percent of the scam sites, while IE 7 flagged 66.35 percent.

Here is the complete Mozilla phishing filter study.

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Mozilla released a series of patches for their products, fixing a few critical security flaws. These flaws were affecting Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, and could result in RSA signature forging, a system crash and memory corruptions.

If you are using the older 1.5.x branch of Firefox, you'll be automatically updated to the newest version. The 2.0 series of Firefox is not affected by any of these flaws, and doesn't require patching.

There aren't reports of these flaws being exploited, but keeping up to date is always a good idea.

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With Firefox 2.0 already available, Mozilla turned its attention to version 3.0, with the goal to deliver Firefox 3.0 in 2007.

Officially Firefox 3.0, code named "Gran Paradiso", will pick up where Firefox 2.0 leaves off, said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering. Among the features Mozilla wants to get into 3.0 is a new concept they call "Places" wich will be a revamped bookmarks tool which was dropped from Firefox 2.0 in April. Places, a major redesign of the bookmark model, will store both bookmarks and browsing history in a database, then let users search the database for sites they want to revisit.

"Places just wasn't ready to go in Firefox 2.0" said Schroepfer. "We definitely didn't want to add it until it was ready for prime time."

Mozilla also begun work on a new rendering engine to debut in Firefox 3.0. It will replace the old Gfx graphics infrastructure for something called Cairo 2D. Both Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 1.5 relied on Gecko 1.8 code, but Firefox 3.0 will use the Gecko 1.9 code base. Mozilla's switching to the Cairo 2D graphics library to add hardware-accelerated 2D graphics capabilities to the browser.

Also, Firefox 3.0 will be dropping support for Windows 95, 98, and Millennium.

There is much more stuff in the works for Forefox 3.0, but we'll have to wait and see what cool features the Santa brings ;)

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Qualcomm, creators of the e-mail client Eudora for both Windows and Mac OS X, have announced that they have partnered with the Mozilla Foundation to make Eudora open source. The new Eudora will be based on the Thunderbird platform, but will retain its uniquely feature set and enhancements. The new open source Eudora will be free to the public.

Steve Dorner, the vicepresident of Qualcomm's Eudorea Group and the original founder of the software in 1988, said "Using the Mozilla Thunderbird technology platform as a basis for future versions of Eudora will provide some key infrastructure that the existing versions lacked, such as a cross-platform code base and a world-class display engine"

We'll see if this move on the open source market will save Eudora from "extinction"!

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Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 2 Beta 2 browser with lots of improvements.

Also on the same note, Microsoft launched the first release candidate of its forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser last week, with the final version expected to appear before the year is out. Firefox has more than 10% of the browser market and Internet Explorer has about 85%.

To doanload tha latest beta go here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-beta.h...

Here are a few of the news stuff to be found in Firefox 2 Beta 2:

• Visual Refresh: Firefox 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience. For instance, toolbar buttons now glow when you hover over them. We will continue to improve the look and feel throughout the release candidate process.
• Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled. Please note that at this time we are using a limited list to test the core Phishing Protection framework within the browser. Users are encouraged to wait until a future release of Firefox 2 to verify the accuracy of the list of Web forgeries.
• Enhanced search capabilities: Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integrated search box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com search engines. A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-order search engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters a website that offers new search engines that the user may wish to install.
• Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
• Resuming your browsing session: The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed in forms, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. It will be activated automatically when installing an application update or extension, and users will be asked if they want to resume their previous session after a system crash.
• Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds: Users can decide how to handle Web feeds (like this one), either subscribing to them via a Web service or in a standalone RSS reader, or adding them as Live Bookmarks. My Yahoo!, Bloglines and Google Reader come pre-loaded as Web service options, but users can add any Web service that handles RSS feeds.
• Inline spell checking: A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms (like this one) without having to use a seperate application.
• Live Titles: When a website offers a microsummary (a regularly updated summary of the most important information on a Web page), users can create a bookmark with a "Live Title". Compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly updated with the latest information. There are several websites that can be bookmarked with Live Titles, and even more add-ons to generate Live Titles for other popular websites.

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These days I stumble upon this cool gmail hackery ... GTDGmail. Basically this is a Mozilla Firefox extension that integrates a highly effective methodology of Getting Things Done into the popular Google email service Gmail.

Safety features: GTDGmail contains NO 3rd party software, NO Data Monitoring:GTDGmail sends no data back to a central server); NO Destructive Capabilities: GTDGmail integrates into Gmail, but absolutely no function can delete anything important (like your emails).

 

 

 

GTDGmail discreetly integrates into Gmail and features:

• Easily Organize GTD Labels
  Labels are now structured into Contexts, Status, Projects and References; making it easier to read and use. Labels can be applied much more rapidly than in standard Gmail.
• Quickly Review Outstanding Tasks
  Quickly review outstanding GTD tasks that are over a few days old.
• Save Specialized Searches
  Searches can be created and saved that enable precise queries over your GTD tasks.
• Send Myself Tasks and References
  You can quickly compose Tasks and References and send them to your Inbox.
• Print Tasks to Cards
  Select, sort and print tasks in 3x5 inch format so you can easily carry them. Extra useful if you use the Hipster PDA!
  

I'll write here my thoughts after I will use it for a week or two. In the meanwhile test it your self.

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Shortly after the major Firefox 1.5.0.5 security update Mozilla released Firefox 1.5.0.6 which is, they say, a stability update. Automatically downloads to existing copies of Firefox 1.5.x were started today, but the update can also be retrieved in its entirety from the Mozilla Web site in versions for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X in 37 localized editions.

So what's new:

• Fixed an issue with playing Windows Media content

Release Date: August 2, 2006

Link: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

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Firefox 1.5.0.5 is a security update. Automatically downloads to existing copies of Firefox 1.5.x, but can also be retrieved in its entirety from the Mozilla Web site in versions for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X in 37 localized editions.

So what's new:

• Improvements to product stability


• Added changes for Frisian locale (fy-NL)


• Several security fixes:




• Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5)


• JavaScript engine vulnerabilities


• JavaScript new Function race condition


• Javascript navigator Object Vulnerability


• XSS with XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(...)


• UniversalBrowserRead privilege escalation


• PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call


• Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined "new Object()"


• Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains


• Memory corruption with simultaneous events


• Code execution through deleted frame reference


• chrome: scheme loading remote content

Link: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

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Students at the Stanford school of design were assigned to come up with ways to promote Mozilla Firefox, the well known open source competitor to Internet Explorer.
The first group devised a variant of the Mozilla browser called Faith Browser. In this Faith Browser, the home icon was replaced with a church and a halo icon was slotted in where the refresh icon usually goes.

"When you refreshed you got a new line of scripture" they said. "This is all done in a non-cynical way."

While the Faith Browser has done well, it hasn't done as well as Firefoxies. This is a variant of the browser in which users submit their photographs, which are shown when the browser goes up. Friends can then vote for them.

"The trick is you have to download Firefox to vote" they said. "They had a 30 percent conversion rate, which is quite high."

The Firefoxies group became, for a period, the eighth most active organization for recruiting new users to Firefox.

Source: http://news.com.com
Link: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Labels: mozilla

McAfee warned of a new trojan that installs itself as a Firefox extension on Tuesday, saying it had found Web sites linking to a virus known as FormSpy. Once loaded on the infected computer, the trojan begins sending personal information entered in the Web browser to a malicious site.
"This information can include, but is not limited to, credit numbers, passwords, e-banking pin numbers" and other sensitive information, McAfee warned. The firm said the application is also capable of sniffing passwords from ICQ, FTP, IMAP and POP3 traffic. The issue is considered "low-risk," and those with current DAT files would not be susceptible to infection. The trojan requires another piece of malware, called "Downloader-AXM" to work, and McAfee has already added protection against that virus. However, McAfee says it does continue to circulate in the wild.

Link: http://www.mcafee.com

Labels: mozilla

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox v1.5.0.4 in a regular maintenance update to their free popular Web browse. The update has been made available for multiple platforms.

The new release improves stability, according to the developers, and also sports several security fixes. Issues related to privilege escalation, file stealing, buffer overflow, potential memory corruption and other problems have been corrected in this release - the release notes have been posted online.



Firefox 1.5.0.4 requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later and Win 98/Me/2000/XP or later.

Link: Firefox.com

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I am stuned ... over 2 million downloads in just 3 days. Mozilla claimed that more than 2 million downloads of Firefox 1.5 have been processed since the version 1.5 of the popular browser's debut on 29 November 2005.

"Demand continues to be high, greatly exceeding what we saw last year with the release of Firefox 1.0" said Chris Beard, Mozilla's head of products.

This has gotta to be some kind of a new record in internet hystory. If you know any precedent please enlighten me!

Labels: firefox, mozilla, short-news

I've already downloaded the new (and still free) version of Firefox 1.5, it's so cool. I highly recomend it!

The new version of the open-source browser Firefox is based on the new Gecko 1.8 rendering engine, making the browser more faster and more stable. Also it offers a host of new features like:

• the ability to reorder tabs by drag and drop;
  
• faster back and forward buttons;
  
• additional privacy and accessibility and improved popup blocking;
  
• Firefox now supports SVG, CSS 2, CSS 3 and JavaScript 1.6.
  

The new version 1.5 of Firefox is available now for free ... get it.

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