19 november

Browser battle gets interesting
PC Advisor - London,UK
Firefox has been the main beneficiary of the Internet Explorer backlash, although a few other browsers (notably Opera) have enticing credentials. ...

Avaya Messaging Storage Server Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia - UK
Avaya has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Firefox, included in Avaya Messaging Storage Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass ...

Firefox 2.0 Trumps IE7 at Anti-phishing, Claims Mozilla
SDA Asia Magazine - Singapore
Anti-phishing filter in Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 browser has outclassed similar tools available in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, a study by Mozilla Foundation ...

Mozilla Claims Firefox Beats IE In Finding Phishers
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
A Mozilla-sponsored study says the company's Firefox browser is 18% to 23% better at spotting fraudulent phishing sites than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. ...

Firefox outshines IE in phish fight
Register - London,England,UK
Anti-phishing features in Firefox 2.0 perform better than equivalent security technologies in IE7, according to a study commissioned by the Mozilla corporation ...

Best Extensions for Firefox 2
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
If you are a FireFox user, you should certainly take a look at this list of the 10 Best Extensions. Each one performs a specific ...

18 november

Living with alcoholics
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism - Quezon City,Philippines
... Alecks : Although, at the moment, Linux has yet to provide support for Flash and movie player plugins for Firefox 2.0. ... That's why I prefer Firefox. ...
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Microsoft buys Firefox? Not
ZDNet Asia - Asia
... other Netizens this week, I took a double-take when I came across headlines in a string of search results claiming that Microsoft had bought the Firefox browser ...

Report: Firefox 2.0 Trumps IE7 In Phish-Fighting
Washington Post - United States
The newly released Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browsers both include new technology to help flag and block phishing sites ...

17 november

Microsoft Plans CardSpace Plug-In for Firefox
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
Microsoft will write a software plug-in that allows the Firefox open-source Web browser to work with Microsoft’s Cardspace identity management technology. ...
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froglogic Squish/Web Testing Tool Supports Firefox 2.0
Linux PR (press release) - Darien,CT,USA
froglogic GmbH today announced support for testing web applications executed in the newly released Firefox version 2.0. Hamburg, Germany ...

Internet Explorer 7: Hot or Not?
OSWeekly.com - Atlanta,GA,USA
(Preview) - As far as I’m concerned, the real question that’s bouncing around in everyone's mind is which browser is better: IE 7 or Firefox 2? Speaking as ...

Firefox a better phishdetector than IE, which is a better ...
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
ACCORDING TO a new test regarding browser security conducted by Smartware Technologies, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is significantly better at detecting phishing sites ...

Mashable!: ShopWiki Relaunches For the Holidays
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... There’s also a “Shopping Assistant” extension for Firefox that automatically fills in forms while you’re shopping (this type of functionality is ...
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Hands on: Get to grips with Launchy
What PC? - UK
... Typing ‘exc’, for example, puts two versions of Excel at the top of the list, and ‘moz’ offers Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. ...

16 november

Improved File Upload with Firefox 2 and Rad Upload 3
24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USA
... The Rad Upload applet is compatible with all popular browsers such as Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari and Opera on Windows, Linux and OS X. It can be used ...

best extensions for Firefox 2
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The latest major update of Mozilla Firefox incorporates functionality from the most popular extensions for the previous version. ...

Nifty Download: 'Faviconize' Your Firefox Tabs
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Mitch Wagner. The nifty Faviconize Tab extension minimizes the width of the label on a Firefox tab to just the favicon, to save space on your desktop. ...

Firefox 2 will be Iyonix-only
Drobe.co.uk - UK
By the Drobe news desk. The next release of the RISC OS Firefox port will be Iyonix-only, developer Peter Naulls revealed today. ...

Can the Google Toolbar and Firefox on the Mac Please Get Along?
Technology Evangelist - Minneapolis,MN,USA
I recently started having a nagging problem with FireFox on my Macbook Pro where FireFox would randomly freeze and serve up the spinning beach ball of death. ...

More on Microsoft's Firefox 2007 (Ha! Again.)
PC World - USA
Late in October I told you about Microsoft's purchase of Firefox. It was a great gag; almost 20,000 people checked it out. From ...

Mozilla: Firefox antiphishing tool better than IE 7's
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... in the browser war's latest battle this week, using a company-sponsored study to claim the antiphishing filter in Firefox 2 more accurately flags potential ...
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15 november

DSA-1210-1: Mozilla-firefox several vulnerabilities
Zone-H - Tallinn,Estonia
Date Reported: 14 Nov 2006 Affected Packages:mozilla-firefox Vulnerable: Yes Security database references:In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ...

Microsoft unleashes improved Firefox
Register - London,England,UK
The open source community is in a state of shock this morning at the news that Microsoft has released a version of popular browser Firefox. ...
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Firefox beats IE in 'phishfight'
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Anti-phishing technology in the new generation of Mozilla Firefox and Microsof Internet Explorer browsers punched it out and Firefox was victorious, The ...
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IE7: Green Means Go … Sorta
RealTechNews - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Michael Santo. Many of you may know about my experiences trying IE7 and Firefox 2.0 (here and here). I’ve learned to live with ...
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14 november

Corel Bundles Firefox with WordPerfect Office X3
SDA Asia Magazine - Singapore
Corel has launched a USD 79 edition of its WordPerfect productivity suite, and unveiled a deal with Mozilla to bundle the Firefox browser with the software ...

IE 7 automatic updates get green light for XP users
iTWire - Australia
Whether you’ve ‘upgraded’ to Firefox or another browser, XP users with IE 6 will start being asked to update to IE 7 through Microsoft’s automatic ...

Data Doctor - When in doubt, two Internet browsers work best
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
Q: Which of the two new versions of Web browsers should I upgrade to — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0? — Marcus. ...
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Microsoft begins Explorer 7 'criticial update'
Techworld.com - London,UK
... The updated browser is Microsoft's answer to the growing power of open-source browser Firefox in a market where the software giant has held a virtual monopoly ...
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Many Radio Add-Ons Available for Users of Firefox Browser
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
If you are a user of the Firefox Browser and a radio fan, you may be missing out on some great radio freebies available which will enhance your browsing ...

Opening credits for Lycos Cinema
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7 in October. About 31 percent of Web surfers used Mozilla's Firefox
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13 november

Opera Talks Up Nintendo Wii Browser
NintendoRevolution.ca - Brantford,ON,Canada
... Wii. And even though my top pick for a browser would have been Firefox, I'm still perfectly fine with the big O getting their shot. ...

The Secret of Firefox's Success
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
We could probably all sit down and name off hundreds of reasons that FireFox is so successful, but since it’s the weekend and I don’t want to bug you, we ...

IE 7 Vs Firefox 2.0
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
While Firefox just entered the ring with many already popular browsers to compete with, it still managed to capture a good percentage of the market in a ...

Navigation tools take a stab at 'tabbing'
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
... Microsoft is largely playing catch-up with competitors, notably Firefox, a descendant of the Netscape that Explorer defeated, now reincarnated as a strong ...
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Opera browser set for a standing ovation
iTWire - Australia
... default might be another, but all jokes aside, Opera www.opera.com is one of the few real alternatives to a world of Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox for PC ...
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RSS finally taking off, thanks to IE7 and Firefox?
Blog Herald - Bunbury,Australia
... question has observed how the feed usage has changed over the last 30 days, and pins the changes it down to the launch of Internet Explorer 7 and/or Firefox 2.0 ...

Firefox µTorrent WebUI extension
p2pnet.net - Ontario,Canada
But we’ve discovered a Firefox extension that makes using the WebUI a lot easier. The ... The extension works fine in Firefox 2.0. To ...

IE7 'critical update' causes headaches for managed desktop ...
Register - London,England,UK
... Internet Explorer 7 is a nice update to IE6, enabling tabbed browsing, and introduces other features seen in other web browsers like Firefox and Opera. ...
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