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Mozilla Giving Away Security Testing Tools 2007-08-02 13:17:23 Mozilla Corp. will release some of its homegrown security tools to the open-source community, the company’s head of security said Wednesday, starting with a “fuzzer” it uses to pin down JavaScript bugs in Firefox.
The JavaScript fuzzer, said Window Snyder, Mozilla’s security chief since last September, will be handed over Thursday morning, following a presentation at Black Hat, a two-day security conference that opened Wednesday in Las Vegas.
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Feel Firefox - features 2007-08-02 00:03:00 FeelFirefox
.net is now featured in the following showcases:
Designer Source / CSS Clip / CSS Container / CSS2.0 / Most Inspired / The Daily Slurp
W3C Sites
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Firefox Portable 2.0.0.6 2007-07-31 10:09:55 Mozilla Firefox
- Portable
Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. Licence: Open Source.
Changes:
- Firefox updated to 2.0.0.6
- Launcher bug (leaving temp files): fixed
- Updated installer source included in proper directory
Official site: portableapps.com
Download: Firefox Portable 2.0.0.6 (6.04 MB)
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Firefox 2.0.0.6 update is available now
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10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploit 2007-07-31 02:48:51 Looks like the protocol handler problems just won’t die. On July 20th, Jesper Johansson report
ed that Firefox
2.0.0.5 didn’t quite get all the bugs out of passing strings to external programs registered as protocol handlers. 10 days later, Mozilla has released a patch in version 2.0.0.6. The first version of the patch was actually coded on July 21st, finalized on the 23rd, tested and reviewed, and released to auto-updates on the 30th. You can see all the gory details in bug 389106 .
Ironically, FF appears to have been doing the same thing that IE was doing, which Window Snyder called a “critical vulnerability in IE” on the 18th. Snyder gave Microsoft a hard time because they were not planning a fix, but on the 23rd he had to eat crow, saying:
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Firefox users rave about Kiwi-made preview tool 2007-07-31 02:45:28 Christchurch start-up, Interclue Ltd, has received rave revues from users
around the world for its new web preview tool.
The tool, which has so far been released as an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox
browser, provides an almost instant preview of web page contents when the user’s cursor is held over a page link. Interclue also tells you what type of file is linked to (ie, PDF), the number of words it contains and what sort of action the link will perform when clicked.
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Firefox 2.0.0.6 update available now 2007-07-31 02:43:36 A quick update to Firefox
2.0.x branch has been released by Mozilla to address a couple of security related bugs.
The first one, labeled as critical, was discovered last week and is related to the inclusion of spaces and quotes in web addresses that could be used to pass parameters to third party applications and allow remote code execution attacks. The second one could affect extensions that modify or create about:blank pages allowing an attacker to get more access to a user’s computer.
It’s strongly recommended that users update to this update either waiting for the update to be prompted within 48 hours or selecting Check For Updates… in Firefox’s Help menu.
Via Mozillalinks.org
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17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy 2007-07-30 15:35:37 The great thing about the Firefox
browser is when you have a problem, there is usually a solution in the form of an extension. As a blog writer, I’ve been using a few that smooth out the experience and get rid of a few annoyances.
Here are a few suggestions.
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Skype also affected by supposed “Firefox vulnerability” 2007-07-30 15:23:14 The ripples from the problematic way special URLs are handled, discovered last week, continue to spread. Research by heise Security showed that as well as Firefox
, other applications like Skype
or Miranda can act as a gateway for the problem. This strongly suggests that the actual cause of the problem is the confusing way in which Windows handles URLs. If a program considers that it is not responsible for dealing with a URL type such as mailto:, it passes such URLs to the operating system to be dealt with further. Under Windows XP, however, what then happens depends on whether or not Internet Explorer 7 is installed (even if IE has nothing to do with the protocol in question).
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IE7/Firefox URI Handling Bug Caused by Windows After All 2007-07-30 11:41:55 An exploitable bug discovered earlier this month that was first believed to have been caused by Internet Explorer 7.0, before Mozilla was forced to admit that it afflicted Firefox
as well, has apparently been traced back to a Windows
API function.
The discovery may have been first revealed through the US-CERT Web site of the Dept. of Homeland Security, which now classifies it as a “Microsoft Windows URI protocol handling vulnerability.” The function in question is an old favorite of malware writers: ShellExecute(), which was the subject of a notorious Windows 2000 exploit four years ago.
While Microsoft has yet to issue an official statement or bulletin making this discovery clear, it probably advised US-CERT with regard to its existence. The official government site this morning reads, “We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.”
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Mozilla launches official Firefox support site alpha 2007-08-04 04:18:38 Mozilla
’s marketing team is in the process of creating an official community-driven support site that will focus on delivering comprehensive Firefox
documentation that is written for an audience of users with a “slightly below average” level of computing experience. The content, which will primarily take the form of tutorials and troubleshooting guides, will be written by volunteer contributors.
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FireTune: The Ultimate Firefox Hack for Windows 2007-08-04 02:45:40 If you’re running a version of Windows
and you spend much of your day in the Mozilla Firefox
browser, you can very easily tweak it for appreciable speed and efficiency boosts. And the good news is you don’t have to be a hacker or spend any money. In this post, I’m going to discuss a piece of freeware called FireTune, from Totalidea Software, which can give your browser some shots of adrenaline.
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Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 available for download 2007-08-04 02:40:41 Gran ParadisoAlpha
7 is an early developer milestone for Firefox 3 and the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso
Alpha 7 is being made available
for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use alpha releases. Some of the changes included with Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 are:
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Me.dium 2007-08-03 10:57:13
Me.dium is like being given a piggyback by someone surfing the web. The interface sits as a sidebar on your Firefox browser (a version for Microsoft Explorer will soon be released) and at the top of the window, you can see which sites other Me.dium users are currently looking at. If anything takes your interest, like Frogger you can leap from your surfing session to theirs, and follow them as they explore the web. Don’t worry though, no-one can follow you to sensitive sites such as online banking or email.
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Firefox add-ons invade Facebook: Rock Your Firefox! 2007-08-02 15:42:35 Rock Your Firefox
! is a Facebook
application just released by Mozilla that you can install in your Facebook profile to browse, install, comment and share Firefox add-ons with your Facebook friends.
To install it, go to Rock Your Firefox, and press the Add Application button in the right side. Once added, the Rock Your Firefox application will open automatically.
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Color management support added to Firefox 3 2007-08-07 12:06:23 The latest Firefox
3 alpha has added support for color management, a standard technique defined by the International Color
Consortium to ensure consistent color presentation for images no matter they are displayed on paper, a CRT screen, an LCD, fabric, etc.
The ICC offers an ICC2 and ICC4 standards compatibility test and I ran it with Firefox 2 (to the left) and Firefox 3 Alpha 7. You can see the results below.
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Browser Market Report: Firefox Usage Down 2007-08-06 15:24:01 Apple’s move to release a version of Safari for Windows users has done little to inflate Safari’s overall marketshare.
The latest Net Applications data shows Safari took 4.56 percent of the browser market in July, the first full month in which the new Safari 3 Public Beta was readily available.
That’s up slightly on June’s figures (4.49 percent), but down on May’s 4.82 percent share.
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Firefox Users Now Can Log In To Websites With Their Fingerprints 2007-08-07 06:21:45 A&H Software, a brazilian high-quality software development company, released FingerAuth Password Manager, a fingerprint login manager for Mozilla Firefox
Web browser. FingerAuth Password Manager allows Firefox users to log in to any Web site with just the touch of their fingers.
By using an ordinary fingerprint reader, the user simply touches the reader with any finger and the software will enter the information instantly, instead of the user filling in all of the fields of a login page. The program runs on Windows 98 or newer and is freely available for a 30-day evaluation at www.fingerauth.com/.
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Mozilla Reveals New Features of Firefox 3 2007-08-06 04:57:25 Open source browser maker Mozilla
has developed a wide array of secure coding analysis tools as part of its internal development process, and now it’s beginning to share those programs with the outside world.
As part of their presentation at the Black Hat 2007 conference in Las Vegas this week, Mozilla leaders detailed their ongoing efforts to lower the number of available vulnerabilities in their increasingly popular Firefox
and Mozilla browsers.
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Firefox is a Public Asset 2007-08-10 00:08:27 Recently a Mozilla observer and contributor asked why Firefox
isn’t treated as a typical for-profit, commercial effort, and why we are giving up the chance to get rich. This is a great topic for discussion, I’m glad it was raised. I’ve got a very strong opinion on this, and am quite interested in what others think.
There are many reasons why Firefox is a public asset, built for public benefit rather than private wealth.
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Web Designers: Ignore Firefox at Your Peril! 2007-08-10 00:02:39 I was browsing through StepForth’s Google Analytics statistics for The StepForth SEO Blog when I came across the browser share report and discovered something wonderful… Internet Explorer has lost lots of market share!
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New Mozilla working group aims to simplify enterprise Firefox deployment 2007-08-09 06:58:25 Mozilla’s newly formed Enterprise Working Group (EWG) aims to improve the potential for Firefox
adoption in businesses. Like Mozilla’s user retention plan and ongoing documentation project, the EWG will serve an important function in Mozilla’s effort to increase Firefox uptake rates and improve the browser’s usability. Specifically, the EWG will attempt to find practical solutions to management and security issues faced by businesses.
At the group’s first meeting late last month, the participants discussed their own personal experiences with Firefox in an enterprise
environment. In sharing their experiences, the participants found much common ground, and they were able to identify an assortment of challenges that seem to be universal in enterprise environments. Some key issues include packaging, patch and settings management, and user profile handling.
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75% of the people who download Firefox don’t become active users 2007-08-08 15:08:54 According to the Mozilla wiki: “In order for Firefox
to reach our market share goals, we need to improve our ability to retain users
. Currently, approximately 50% of the people
who download Firefox actually try it and about 50% of those people continue to use it actively.”
Firefox’s claims to success have been supported by clocking up the number of downloads, encouraged by payments from Google, but it turns out that 75% of the people making those downloads don’t “continue to use it actively.”
Mozilla also has a 12-point plan to increase retention levels, though it’s actually an 11-point plan with one item repeated.
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Mozilla Gets Fuzzy: New Tools Help Hackers Test Firefox Security 2007-08-08 13:32:11 Mozilla recently announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that it would release a series of security tools, known as fuzzers, which have previously only been used internally, to the internet at large.
The move is designed to give outside hackers easier ways to test for security flaws in Firefox
and other web browsers. Fuzzers are tools that poke, prod and sometimes outright attack a piece of software to test its robustness and identify potential vulnerabilities.
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Firefox 3 gets a toolbar resizer and native Vista menus 2007-08-08 10:35:55 Latest Firefox
3 development release (August 8 nightly) got a couple of small but significant improvements among the usual couple of dozens bug fixes.
First, the addition of a resizer to the Customize Toolbar dialog you can add to the toolbar to easily resize the search bar and the location bar, a much requested feature. Currently the search bar is flexible which means it changes size as the window does but you can’t set a specific width unless you hack a bit.
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First look to Firefox 3’s new download manager 2007-08-12 01:22:06 The revamped download manager
, one of the expected features defined in the Firefox
3 product requirement document has been added to the development code today and will be available in tomorrow’s nightly (development release).
At first glance the main change is that downloads are now organized in active and inactive (completed or canceled) so it is easier to see what’s going on. Also, pause and cancel text links have been replaced for pause and stop icons for quicker recognition, to save space and make it more coherent with overall Firefox interface style: text links should take to a web page and not perform an action.
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Easy plugin management for Firefox 3 2007-08-11 02:01:05 The latest Gran Paradiso nightly brings an important improvement to the Add-ons Manager. Along with themes and extensions, now it’s possible to see, enable and disable the installed plugins, those small applications that allow Firefox
to show special content embedded in many web pages including Flash animations, video and audio in a variety of formats ( Real, DivX, Windows Media, QuickTime), Adobe PDF documents, Java applets, etc.
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Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox 2007-08-10 16:18:50 Snap Technologies, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Snap Shots Add-On for web browsers, allowing users to take the Snap Shots™ service and experience with them as they browse the web. Snap Shots is an open platform that intelligently delivers related content such as stock quotes, streaming audio or video, product information and more, directly to users as they browse the web using an enabled web browser – all in a format that is useful and engaging to users. Snap Shots Add-On delivers the rich Snap Shots experience across the entire web – not just on web sites that have Snap Shots installed – enhancing links on blogs, search engines and more. Snap Shots Add-On currently works with Firefox
and Internet Explorer.
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Firefox 3 gets smooth tab scrolling 2007-08-16 01:41:49 A quick note to share a nice little improvement that just landed to Firefox
3 development code (a.k.a the trunk): Tab scrolling has got smooth
er.
Instead of the rough tab by tab stepping, tabs now slide in a continuous soft movement whenever you scroll them with the mouse wheel, add a new one or change to a different tab beyond the current visible section.
Via Mozillalinks.org
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