5 november

IE7 Printer Conflict and a Firefox 2.0 Question
Washington Post - United States
... I upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 2, and now I can't block tracking cookies in this browser. Old versions of Firefox could be set to ...

F-Secure Internet Security 2007
ABC News - USA
... I tested the parental control using Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera—it worked well with all three of these, and even with a test browser I wrote myself ...
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Another denial-of-service bug found in Firefox 2
ZDNetIndia - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
By Joris Evers, CNET News.com,. A second security flaw that could cause the new Firefox 2 browser to crash has been publicly disclosed. ...

Dense Forests of New England
Backpacking Light (subscription) - Bozeman,MT,USA
If you're using Internet "Exploder" (i don't use it, preferring Firefox which is a much better browser with some very nice features [note: some finally ...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer finally catches up
Seattle Times - United States
... their PCs. How well does it work? How does it compare with competitors, including Firefox 2, released about 10 days later? What can ...
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4 november

Security Bites Podcast: Another Apple Wi-Fi flaw
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
By CNET News.com Staff. Bugs galore in Apple's Wi-Fi drivers, Firefox 2, IE 7 and Visual Studio. Also, DIY boarding passes, Google ...

Google Loading Cookie When Using Firefox RSS Display
Search Engine Watch - USA
... a report from LegRoom.net that shows Google is loading a cookie on your browser that won't expire until 2038 when you access RSS feeds via the Firefox 2.0 RSS ...

Tech Chronicles
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... VentureBeat's Matt Marshall is blogging about Firefox kid Blake Ross, who is starting a company, Parakey Inc., with money raised from dominant venture capital ...
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Friday link dump
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
The week's almost over, and you know what that means: time to clear out the Firefox tabs. According to a recent MIT survey, Americans ...

COMPUTER CORNER: Get Vista before its release
thepaper24-7.com - USA
... You will also notice tabbed browsing like Firefox and Opera. ... On that same note, Firefox has released version 2 of their browser. ...

Security Blog Log: Dissecting Firefox 2.0
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
This week, bloggers examine the security features of Firefox 2.0 and come away with mixed reviews. Does it fare better than Internet Explorer 7? ...
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Some Firefox Browsers Blocking Google AdWords Clicks?
Search Engine Roundtable - USA
When I display the google SERPS in firefox 2 I find that some of the adverts can't be clicked on. In my case it is in positions 2-5 on the right hand side. ...

3 november

Bitchslapping Firefox into non-submission
Atomic - Australia
That fucken GHEY BigPond Webmail site insists on wasting my time by consigning lengthy and carefully-composed emails to the ether, with its arsehole disabled ...

Firefox 2.0 (#5): Remove Firefox profiles for various problems ...
MacFixIt (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
Remove Firefox profiles for problems with rendering, plug-ins, etc. One of the most effective solutions for a variety of issues ...
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Never Overpay for Airfare Again with FareCompare's New Firefox ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
DALLAS, Nov 2 /PRNewswire/ -- FareCompare today released FareFirst, an airfare tracking tool for the popular Firefox browser. Available ...

Best new Firefox addin: AllPeers
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Fed up with email messages bouncing because your attachments are too big? There's a simple solution -- get a very good new Firefox add-in, AllPeers. ...
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Mozilla confirms second Firefox 2.0 bug
PC Advisor - London,UK
A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter much of a problem in the meantime, according to Mozilla. ...

Second Minor Firefox 2.0 Bug Found
PC World - USA
A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter much of a problem in the mean time, a Mozilla official ...
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2 november

About this Author
Corante - Boston,MA,USA
... And from a blogging standpoint, it's better than Sage, my favourite RSS plug-in for Firefox. ... It has all the search functionality of Firefox and more. ...

Flaw found in Firefox 2.0
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
A week after its release, vulnerability researchers are already reporting a flaw in Firefox 2.0 attackers could potentially exploit to cause a denial of service ...

Additional DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox 2.0
heise Security - London,UK
Discussion is ongoing at the security mailing list Bugtraq about the effects of a newly discovered hole in Firefox 1.5.0.7 and 2.0. ...
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Firefox 2.0 (#4): Problems with embedded media; Continuing ...
MacFixIt (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
Problems with embedded media -- potential fixes Firefox 2.0 continues to express issues with embedded media -- particularly an inability to play inline content ...

Firefox Kid’s New Start Up, Parakey
GigaOm - San Francisco,CA,USA
Blake Ross, one of the more high profile members of the Firefox team, has been quietly working on a new start up for a while. He ...

Safari usage continues to climb
Spymac - New York,NY,USA
Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with 81.28 per cent of the market and Firefox came in the number two spot with 12.96 ...
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Power User - The Best of Lifehacker
Gizmodo.com - Budapest,Hungary
... "There are bunch of unnecessary buttons, menus and doodads in the Firefox chrome that you don't need, taking up space you could be using to see and do more ...
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Firefox gives RSS subscription information away
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Under certain conditions Firefox will transfer the addresses of all RSS and Atom feeds subscribed to by a user to Google -- even if the user does not want to ...

Songbird aims to be the Firefox of media players
CSS Weblog - Santa Monica,CA,USA
Firefox 2.0 received a ton of fanfare on its official release recently. A few days before that release, and with much less fanfare ...

A new denial-of-service bug found in Firefox 2
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
By Joris Evers, CNET News.com. A second security flaw that could cause the new Firefox 2 browser to crash has been publicly disclosed. ...
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1 november

Firefox betrays RSS subscriptions
heise Security - London,UK
Firefox transmits the address of all RSS and Atom feed subscriptions to Google and Yahoo under some circumstances – even if the user does not intend to use ...

The Firefox Kid
IEEE Spectrum - New York,NY,USA
By David Kushner. Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now. ...

Reinstall player for Firefox
Miami Herald - FL,USA
Q: I can watch videos in my Internet Explorer, but it doesn't work in Firefox. What can I do? A: Getting videos directly from your ...

Tuesday Top Ten: Reviews of the Firefox 2.0 web browser
Mobile Digest - London,England,UK
Apparently more than two million people downloaded the Firefox 2.0 browser in the first 24 hours after it was officially released. ...
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CodeSourcery Joins MIPS(R) Alliance Program and Delivers GNU/Linux ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... time. For example, when running on a MIPS32(R) 24K(R) platform, a prelinked version of the Firefox web browser starts 44% faster. ...

Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, But Just Right
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
There's no denying that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 release is a heftier upgrade than Mozilla's new Firefox 2.0 release. ...
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31 oktober

Opinions split over whether Firefox 2.0 is any good or not
Mobile Digest - London,England,UK
It might be the browser success story of the last couple of years, but opinions are split over whether Firefox's recently-released v2.0 upgrade is the best ...

Vulnerability Affects Firefox and IE, New and Old
BetaNews - USA
... the CTO of security services firm Secunia described this morning as affecting Internet Explorer 7.0, can also affect not only IE6 but Firefox versions 1.5 and ...
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IE7 is a slow coach compared to Firefox 2.0
iTWire - Australia
... However, after playing with IE7 and doing some informal tests against Firefox 2.0, I have to say that the performance of Microsoft’s new browser leaves a lot ...

Firefox 2.0 Downloads Reach 2 Million
Toronto Daily News - Toronto,ON,Canada
Mozilla Corporation has reported to have over 2 million downloads of Firefox 2.0. in the first 24 hours. As many as 30 downloads ...

Firefox 2 v Internet
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 were both officially released within days of each other this month. While we're yet to conduct ...

Firefox 2.0 (#3): Extension, Theme issues; Instability -- fixes ...
MacFixIt (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
Extension, Theme issues Some users have reported various issues caused by Firefox extensions and themes after installing version 2.0. ...

Firefox 2: 2 Million Downloads in a Day
BetaNews - USA
Mozilla said that downloads for the second version of its Firefox browser reached two million in the first 24 hours, or more than 30 downloads per second. ...

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?
ZDNet - USA
Is Firefox 2.0 a dud? Are users better avoiding it and waiting until a future build? Are too ... What about Firefox on Vista? The future ...
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QuickLooks: Internet Explorer 7 vs. Firefox 2 After a Week (or so)
RealTechNews - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Michael Santo. Internet Explorer 7’s been out nearly two weeks, while Firefox 2 has been out just one. ... Tried Firefox 1.5.0.7 with IETab. Crashed again. ...
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Open secret: how Firefox 2 was born
The Sunday Times - UK
We've just released Firefox 2, the culmination of a year's hard work. To those following our progress, it was no surprise. The schedule ...
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30 oktober

Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 to boot
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
It was the week I got to download the finished versions of both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. One was huge and one was small ...

New Firefox 2.0 web browser released by Mozilla
EnjoyFrance.com - Paris,France
The Mozilla Corporation is releasing a new version of the Firefox browser for the web on 24 October. Firefox 2 is released at 1700 PST (0100 BST). ...
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