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A lot of things javascript have made the “web 2.0” idea what it is (Ajax and all), well, the new Mozilla-Firefox supports a canvas tag. To my limited understanding of it (at this point), allows some javascript interactions with the web page. For example…. one demo is of a first person shooter game (well… first […]

Incidents.org has the story on Sun’s release of new versions of the Java Runtime Environment and the Java SDK to fix some remote security vulnerabilities. These security vulnerabilities could allow malicious, untrusted code to compromise a user’s computer. Sun recommends that users update to the newest version of the SDK and JRE available at http://java.sun.com […]

According to Planet Mozilla it looks like we should expect the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 at around 3PM EST (12 noon PST). There are no promises, but that’s what I’m seeing, no exact time mind you, but ~around 3PM EST today. Likely once there is an official announcement news will spread quickly and the […]

Word has it that Mozilla Firefox 1.5 will be released Tuesday, November 29th, 2005. It’s gone through three release candidates and a number of betas. I think there are some good improvements from what I’ve seen of the 1.5 release candidates. One of the features I like is the auto-update feature allowing updates from within […]

This is one of those stories that you never thought you’d see (especially after the Microsoft-Netscape “wars”)… Developers from four of the most prominent web browsers, Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Opera and Konqueror (much of the foundations for Safari are in the Konqueror codebase)… have got together and talked about different approaches and ideas on improving […]

Well…. buckle your seatbelts it’s going to be a bumpy start to the week. the securityfix as well as incidents.org are reporting on exploit code that has been released that takes advantage of an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability. According to the Sans institute diary entry… they have tested the exploit code and it remotely launched […]

News is coming out that Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 is now available. There’s coverage at mozillazine.org. From the comments there may be a few bugs to work out still, although I’ve just skimmed. I’m not sure if those comments are from people that have tried RC3, or are asking if a bug has been fixed […]

We’re inching yet closer to a new official release of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Yesterday was the 1st anniversary of the 1.0 release and today see’s the release of the second Release Candidate for 1.5 If you’ve already got a pre-release version of 1.5 it should automatically update. There may still be bugs, so… you […]

According to spreadfirefox.com, a year ago today was the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Firefox was released prior to November 9th, 2004 in preview releases and early betas, but the official 1.0 came out a year ago today, hard to believe. According to some sources it has as much as 10% of the web market […]

I know there’s been at least one and probably a couple of Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities announced in the last month or so. There are currently (according to Secunia) 3 unpatched Firefox vulnerabilities.    Send article as PDF