8 oktober

Firefox 2 RC2 Released
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 (RC 2), the latest preview release of the next version of the Firefox browser, is now available for download. ...

Vista and Firefox go RC2
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
By Dean Pullen: Saturday 07 October 2006, 16:29. WE'VE BEEN PLAYING with Firefox 2 in beta form for some time, and downloaded the RC2 from here yesterday. ...
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Help me solve my Firefox woes.
Atomic - Australia
... Like today. Basically, firefox is a tad retarded when saving files - it seems to get a massive memory perfomance boost - hence slowing things down the system. ...

Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 Available
MozillaZine - USA
Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download. Users of Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Candidate 1 can upgrade ...

News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot - USA
Shining Celebi writes "According to the Mozilla Developer Center, Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 is available for download. This ...

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 release candidate 2
tweakers.net - Amersfoort,Netherlands
De Mozilla Foundation heeft de tweede release candidate de deur uit gedaan van Firefox 2.0, ook wel 'Bon Echo' genoemd. Deze cross ...

7 oktober

Security Bites Podcast: Was the Firefox zero-day a hoax?
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
By CNET News.com Staff. Hackers demo a zero-day attack on Firefox, then admit it was a joke. Also, silence on the Apple Wi-Fi flaw ...

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, October 6, 2006
ZDNet - USA
... This just came in, but Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team just got back from Redmond on his visit to the Microsoft Open Source Lab. ...

Firefox JavaScript security "a complete mess"? More like a hoax ...
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
The current word: this is a hoax. Firefox is loaded with security flaws, according to a hacker duo that presented at this year's ToorCon. ...

The State of Security Threats on Web Browsers
OSWeekly.com - Atlanta,GA,USA
... Of course, with Firefox breathing down their neck, Microsoft has basically been forced to make the product better, and Internet Explorer 7 is aiming to reclaim ...
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Firefox Set Free in IceWeasel
InternetNews.com - USA
... system as Free Software. It is now gearing up to provide a "free" version of Mozilla's (not-so-free) Firefox browser. The GNU version ...

Firefox 2.0 Inches Closer With an RC2 Download
PC World - USA
Mozilla just came by to talk about Firefox 2.0 and casually mentioned they were making release candidate 2 available today. You ...

Hackers dig into Firefox
Computer Crime Research Center - Ukraine
The open source Firefox web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said on Saturday afternoon. ...
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Mozilla Strategizes With Microsoft On Security
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Mozilla developers trekked to Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus this week to pow-wow about security, considering limiting Firefox's ability to install ...
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TIBCO’s AJAX toolkit now supports Firefox 1.5
ADT Magazine - USA
... So with the “mainstream any day now, you just wait, I’ll show them, so I will!” ascendancy of Firefox, the fact that GI supported only one browser has ...

6 oktober

Open source trickle-down
ZDNet - USA
... story. It is possible to build a credible office PC out of Linux, Open Office and Firefox, but only if you're a sophisticated user. ...

The Firefox development team returns from Redmond
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Back in August, Ars reported that Sam Ramji, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, invited members of Firefox's development team to the Microsoft ...

Critical Firefox flaw exposed
TG Daily - USA
Chicago (IL) - According to media reports, a pair of hackers said on Saturday that the Firefox Web browser, commonly perceived as the safer and more ...

Tech Chronicles
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... Well that's front-page Digg material all the way. -- Write about how great Firefox is. When it comes to Firefox, no story is too ...
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Firefox vulnerability claim was fabricated
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
A HACKER who told the Toorcon conference that Firefox was a complete security mess and couldn't be fixed has admitted that he made it all up. ...

First 13 minutes of Battlestar Galactica are online
TV Squad - Santa Monica,CA,USA
... The video played for me in Internet Explorer, but had trouble with it in Firefox. 1. Looks interestting... BTW, it played fine for me in Firefox... ...
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Don’t worry! Your firefox is safe…
Blogger News Network - USA
A pair of hackers created a sensation earlier when they announced that the Firefox Web browser, commonly perceived as the safer and more customizable ...
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5 oktober

Daily News Podcast For Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
In today's daily news podcast, we present stories on a quad-core processor forecast, a Firefox flaw demo that was itself flawed, and McAfee complaining that by ...

Firefox Gains Ground On Microsoft's IE
TechWeb - USA
For the third consecutive month, Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox has posted a half a percentage point or more gain in market share, a Web metrics company said Wednesday ...
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Firefox prank 'sploit disclosure (and wordless pancake recipe)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Yes, it's IT Blogwatch, in which a couple of self-styled hackers manage to throw the Firefox security team into a flat spin and make monkeys out of the press. ...
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News -- News of FireFox Security Flaw Spreads (MUST SEE PHOTO!) ...
Tablet PC Reviews - Batavia,OH,USA
If you were on the web at all this weekend chances are you ran across a story about a potential security flaw in FireFox that could render it less secure than ...

Hype Surrounds Alleged Firefox Flaw
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... The discovery of vulnerabilities in the Firefox Web browser might not be as critical as they were made out to be by a pair of hackers who presented their ...

4 oktober 

Firefox hack fraudster. Great. Let's talk about his name instead
Mobile Digest - London,England,UK
New reports claim that the Firefox hack discovery I reported yesterday is not entirely factual. Mischa Spiegelmock (I'm still not ...

Firefox Zero Day flaw a hoax
HardwareGeeks.com - USA
Yesterday the internet world was suckered into believing that FireFox had a serious flaw that could allow a users computer to be hi-jacked. ...

Hype Surrounds Alleged Firefox Flaw
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
Firefox, one of the most popular browsers on the planet, has its drawbacks but to have two hackers present overblown findings at a security gathering is pretty ...

Firefox critical flaw
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
Two hackers claim they have found a critical flaw in Firefox that is impossible to patch, according to Pocket Lint. The flaw would ...

Taiwan-based PChome becomes Mozilla Firefox's first portal partner ...
DigiTimes - Taiwan
... with Mozilla Corporation, a global leading provider of open-source technologies and products, to facilitate Internet use by offering "Firefox for Portal 2.0 ...
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MTB set to witness Firefox action
Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh,India
What has actually added thrill to this year’s action is the decision of Firefox, a leading manufacterer of spectacular bikes in the UK, to send its team to ...

Firefox Flaw a Hoax, Admits Speaker
BetaNews - USA
... at a Toorcon security conference session last weekend has admitted that claims he and an accomplice made regarding an "unfixable" flaw in Firefox, and a video ...
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Platform Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Computeractive - London,UK
... that drives the code in Internet Explorer is pretty good, it's the user interface that's lacking compared to modern browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera. ...
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3 oktober

Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
DigitalJournal.com - Canada
The great thing about Firefox, it seems, is that a lot of people monitor flaws rather than exploit them. ... I use Firefox, and won't be switching anytime soon.

Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
Slashdot - USA
An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. ...

JavaScript security flaw potentially affects Firefox for Mac OS X
MacFixIt (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
CNET reports on the presentation of a JavaScript security flaw -- which is really a variation of an old issue -- that potentially affects Firefox when running ...

Safari, Firefox Usage on the Rise, Hit High Point
The Mac Observer - USA
Safari and Firefox took back a little of the Web browser market form Internet Explorer in September, and are showing their highest numbers of the year. ...

Javascript vulnerability threatens Firefox
VNUNet.com - UK
Researchers have detected a potentially serious flaw in the way that Mozilla's Firefox browser handles Javascript. Two independant ...
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ToorCon ("Firefox security is a mess") sponsored by Microsoft
LXer - Kerrville,TX,USA
Lately, I read the headline: "Open Source browser Firefox is so critically flawed that it is impossible to fix, according to two hackers." Further on, in the ...

Alleged 'unfixable' exploit in Firefox
Help Net Security - Croatia
An overflow of stories concerning an alleged Firefox 1.5 exploit hit the Web over the weekend, emerging from an underground users' conference in San Diego. ...

Tibco Offers Open-Source License For Ajax Toolkit
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... statement. In addition to the new licensing option, Tibco added new functionality to the toolkit, including support for Firefox 1.5. ...
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IE More Secure Than Firefox?
eWeek - New York, NY
By Jim Rapoza. "Firefox has more security problems than IE!" screamed the headlines of several technology news stories recently. ... Firefox" headlines. ...

2 oktober 

First release Firefox 2 up for grabs
Silicon.com - UK
The Mozilla Foundation announced on Tuesday the availability of Release Candidate 1 of its Firefox 2 browser but warned that its free, open source browser ...

Vista, as seen by a Mac buff – part two
PC Advisor - London,UK
... Microsoft has slapped on its browser, you can add a folder of links to the links toolbar, just as you can with Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and a host of ...
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Wallpaper Calendar for October 2006
Harry Potter's Page - Milton,FL,USA
... I hope you like it! Right click on the calendar, and click 'set as background' for IE, or 'set as desktop background' for Firefox.

Firefox Hits 25% Usage on PCWorld.com
PC World - USA
Time for another one of my periodic reports on how many PCWorld.com users are running Firefox. The news is what it's been for awhile ...

Firefox 2.0 draws closer
ITP.net - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
by Jason Saundalkar. Mozilla has unveiled ‘Release Candidate 1’ (RC1) of its Firefox 2.0 web browser, bringing its final ‘gold’ launch one step closer. ...

Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Mozilla is investigating claims by hackers that the Firefox Web browser has a serious flaw in the way it handles JavaScript. By Joris Evers. ...
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