Mozilla released another emergency security update for Firefox 36 on March 21, 2015 with Firefox 36.0.4. This update has more Security fixes for issues disclosed at HP Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own contest. Depending on their update settings, users should be prompted shortly to update to Firefox 36.0.4 or can also force the update by going to the Firefox Help Menu and selecting About Firefox then follow the prompts. Alternatively, users my also go to getfirefox.com and download and install the latest version of Firefox there. The next scheduled release for Firefox is March 31st with Firefox 37.
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Google, is starting panic. For the first time since 2008 their market share as dropped below 75%. The reason behind this sudden decline and panic is Mozilla’s decision back in November 2014 not to renew the agreement (default browser search engine) they had with Google, instead opting to sign a five-year deal with Yahoo. Not surprisingly, Yahoo’s market share has increased as a result of this deal to 10.6% (up 2% since the agreement started back in November). Well, Google is not too happy about this and is trying to get Firefox user back. While Google is still the clear market leader, it is…
Mozilla released an emergency security update for Firefox 36 on March 20, 2015 with Firefox 36.0.3. This update has Security fixes for issues disclosed at HP Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own contest. Depending on their update settings, users should be prompted shortly to update to Firefox 36.0.3 or can also force the update by going to the Firefox Help Menu and selecting About Firefox then follow the prompts. Alternatively, users my also go to getfirefox.com and download and install the latest version of Firefox there. The next scheduled release for Firefox is March 31st with Firefox 37.
From the Mozilla Security Blog: First things first: If you are reading this post on a recent Lenovo laptop, please click the lock icon in the URL bar, then click “More Information…”. If you see “Verified by: Superfish, Inc.”, you are infected with Superfish, and you should follow these instructions to remove it. The Superfish adware distributed by Lenovo has brought the issue of SSL interception back to the headlines. SSL interception is a technique that allows other software on a user’s computer to monitor and control their visits to secure Web sites — however, it also enables attackers to…
“When WhatsApp launched its desktop version last month, it became a phenomenal hit. However, the message service was only compatible with Google Chrome. Now, the company announced that the desktop version also works on Firefox and Opera. …” Source: PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times Details
“In part 2 of this series, we look at some new browser sandboxing developments in Firejail security sandbox. Since the first article was published, many new features have been added. Unlike other sandboxes, the main focus of Firejail project is GUI application sandboxing, with web browsers being, at least for the immediate future, the main target. …” Source: l3net – a layer 3 networking blog Details
This is a really good idea as all too often people end up installing extensions (knowingly or unknowingly) which end up making unwanted and undesired changes to their Firefox browser. I don’t think it is going to have that big of a negative impact as this will be a way to prevent the bad extensions from being installed. Problems I could see though would be folks running a fresh install or profile and trying to install an add-on that has been abandoned by the developer. Extensions that change the homepage and search settings without user consent have become very common, just…
“While you can make privacy related configuration changes in the Firefox options, many advanced options become only available when you load about:config or install add-ons that provide you with frontend access to those settings.“You can check out our list of best privacy add-ons for Firefox which gives you an overview of good extensions for that purpose.“Tinfoil is a brand new extension for Firefox that makes quite a few privacy related preferences available in its options. … “ Source: gHacks Tech News More
On Monday, December 1st, Mozilla did another “strange release”. They did this last month with Firefox 33.1 aka The Anniversary Release. So for December they released Firefox 34.0.0 AND 34.0.5. I think I understand the differences, although most people on the forums are still scratching their heads trying to figure this one out. For the United States (en-US) and Russia (RU) builds, user have the option to changing over to the default search engine upon first run of Firefox 34. For en-US users this is Yahoo and for RU users this is Yandex. Since this change is optional, user who update from an earlier version of…
On November 9th, 2004 Mozilla released the first version of Firefox (Firefox 1.0). On November 10th, 2014, Mozilla pushed out Firefox 33.1 aka The Anniversary Release. Note: The previous release version was 33.0.1 so 33.1 is an upgrade. Some new features of this release include: Users can now add DuckDuckGo as a pre-installed search option. Forget feature – an easy way to tell Firefox to clear out some of your recent activity (last 5 minutes, or 2 hours, or 24 hours). Users may be prompted to update to the newest release of Firefox or can do so manually within Firefox by going to Help > About…