On Tuesday, August 30th, Mozilla pushed out emergency updates for both Firefox 3.6 and 6.0. These updates revoke the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance [Additional Details]. Firefox 3.6 users can update via Help > Check For Updates. Firefox 6.0 users can update via Help > About Firefox. Also updated versions of Firefox 3.6 and 6.0 can be downloaded: Firefox 3.6.21 Firefox 6.0.1 Note: Since Firefox 3.6 uses the old release process, all features, bug fixes, improvements, etc.planned for the upcoming Firefox 3.6.21 release on September 27th are being rolled over to Firefox 3.6.22. Source: Mozilla…
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The merges for Firefox 7 onto the Beta Channel, Firefox 8 onto the Aurora Channel as well as Firefox 9 onto the nightly channel has been completed. You can move to the next version within your channel (Firefox 7 Aurora to Firefox 8 Aurora) by going to (Auroa (or Beta or Nightly) Button > Help > About Aurora (or Beta or Nightly). If you want to update manually you can get the builds here: Nightly (Firefox 9.0a1) Aurora (Firefox 8.0a2) Mobile Version available here as well Beta (Firefox 7.0b1) Mobile Version available here as well
Mozilla has updated the Aurora Channel with Firefox 8.0. This is a developer’s preview and is NOT intended for everyday use. What’s New in Firefox 8 Aurora (More Info): Users have more control in managing their add-ons Experimental Interface Updates: Tab animations Restore tabs on-demand Channel Specific ‘Firefox Menus’ Experimental Platform Features: Improvements to HTML5 media elements Additional support for HTML5 technologies WebSockets Updates HTML5 Native Right Click Menu Support Support for CORS for WebGL textures New Experimental Features in Firefox Aurora for Android: Master Password Support Add Bookmarks to Your Home Screen Firefox Sync: Bookmarks and passwords now sync…
Introduced in Firefox 6 is a new permissions manager that allows users of the web browser to define permissions on a per-site basis. Permissions? Currently restricted to the following settings: Store Passwords, Share Location, Set Cookies, Open Pop-up Windows and Maintain Offline Storage… More@ Ghacks Technology [with screenshots] The New Firefox Permissions Manager Go get it.
Fake Firefox Update Email Downloads Trojan Horse Better Business Bureau (blog) – Greg Hudson – Aug 8, 2011 Scammers go to great lengths to come up with sophisticated and sneaky methods to trick you into making unwise decisions but this weekend, there was a rather simple scam being spammed out. According to Naked Security, an email was spammed … Google News Go get it.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched the first official version of HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox plug-in which it says helps secure web browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000 popular web sites…” 05 August, 2011 EFF promises a safer web with HTTPS Everywhere | thinq_ Go get it.
Okay, so it is not true that Dumb People Use IE.Seems this was all a hoax and The Guru fell for it, as did The Seattle PI, CNN, NPR and many more news outlets. Today, AptiQuant – the “company” behind a purported study that recorded which browsers people used to take an online IQ test – posted the following message to its bogus website: AptiQuant was set up in late July 2011 by comparison shopping website AtCheap.com, in order to launch a fake “study” called “Intelligent Quotient and Browser Usage.” The study claimed that people using Internet Explorer have a…
…at least that was this survey of 100,000 people says from Vancouver, B.C.-based AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting. Source: Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog
Mozilla has announced plans for its own Mobile OS, Boot to Gecko or B2G for short. This is going to be somewhat based off the Android platform, but unlike the Android platform, B2G is going to be fully open source.The goal is to have apps which are not restricted to Android, iPhone or WP7 (Windows Phone 7) platforms and can run on a customizable and open source mobile OS. ….as Andreas Gal, a project member, explains: “At some point Android used to be at least available source where Google would publish secretly/internally developed source code/technology after the fact as products…
At least that is what one person is purposing with Bug 661075. Flashbacks to Office 97 with Clippy come to mind (and ironically he/it is mentioned). I do like Comment 5 where the user feels Firefox is “a prosthetic limb that extends my reach onto the web.” I’ve heard browsers called a lot of things, but prosthetic limb is a new one.