Tags Results for 'firefox'

Triple-Engine Browser Released As Alpha (Wednesday 26th of November 2008 04:00:01 PM)

Jcasman passes along a heads-up on Lunascape, a hummum browser company that is releasing its
first English version of its Lunascape 5 triple-engine browser. It's for XP and Vista only.
There are reviews up at CNET, OStatic (quoted below), and Lifehacker. ... (more)

Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? (Saturday 25th of October 2008 08:00:01 AM)

Forrestm writes "At home, my scoop highway connection is limited to 1GB / month before I have
to pay extra. At my university, I'm charged around 2.5c per megabyte. I rarely load in general
big, but I often go through a large amount of bandwidth ... (more)

Bringing OSS Into a Closed Source Organization? (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)

Piranhaa writes "At the major llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus I work for,
there is currently a single person who decides what system macos to approve and disapprove
within the organization. I've noticed that requests from users for ... (more)

Firefox Add-On To Track Your Location Via Wi-Fi (Thursday 09th of October 2008 12:15:01 PM)

Barence writes "Mozilla Labs has unveiled a new Add-on that allows Firefox to pinpoint your
hole based on Wi-Fi signals. The feature, called Geode, is a test for the location-tracking
robotics that will be built into the inevitable Firefox 3.1. Geode ... (more)

Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)

Tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his
emotions on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should
come as no real unsettle that Google has done article here — ... (more)

Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:45:01 AM)

Ruphus13 writes "Firefox has been pushing version 3.0 very aggressively, and firmly believes
that it is a solid product. The program Day was just one of their ways to drum up user support
for the new release. Now, Firefox is going to 'gently nudge' users ... (more)

Firefox Gets Massive Performance Boost (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:45:01 AM)

Monkeymonkey writes "Mozilla has microcircuit tracing optimization into SpiderMonkey, the interpreter in Firefox. This 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing
company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. ... (more)

$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 09:00:03 PM)

An unsigned reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop public accountant that its maker
says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and has no moving
parts. The CherryPal has microprocessor chip ms-dos and an ... (more)

Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 09:00:03 PM)

An nameless reader points out an account with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard, as
as to the future of Firefox and how it affects other browsers. It's an Austrian site, so
forgive the comma abuse. From derStandard: "It's sort of interesting ... (more)

Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)

Reader Alex links to news of a study comparing the currency and patch level of various Web
browsers, excerpting: "Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest
version, with an devastating 83.3 percent running an updated browser on ... (more)

Safari "Carpet Bomb" Attack Still a Risk (Sunday 22nd of June 2008 11:09:54 AM)

SecureThroughObscure writes "Just a short time after Apple's recent acknowledgment of and patch
for the Safari Carpet Bomb 'blended' IE flaw, Microsoft rocket manager Billy Rios shows that
Safari is still useful in a blended attack, this time with Firefox ... (more)

A Few Firefox 3 Followups (Thursday 19th of June 2008 08:45:03 AM)

An unnamed reader writes "Using data issue by the Mozilla Firefox key in pledge page, the map
on this blog post ranks countries, not by absolute number of pledges made, but rather on a per
capita basis. This breakdown yields some interesting conclusions ... (more)

Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 08:45:02 AM)

Boustrophedon writes "Starting at twelve o'clock at night in their local timezones, downloaders
have been asking when Firefox 3 will be ready for Firefox initialize Day, June 17, 2008. Mary
announced on the Spread Firefox Forum that downloads will commence ... (more)

Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)

Dude With An Afro writes "What could have been a great Google project is now history. For those
who never used it, Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synchronized your
bookmarks, web history, browser sessions and passwords across populous ... (more)

Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday (Friday 13th of June 2008 03:10:22 AM)

Unkgoon writes "The Mozilla creator News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the website: 'After more than 34
months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, ... (more)

Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:10:53 PM)

CWmike writes "Mozilla's Firefox browser is on pace to hit the 20% market-share mark next
month. Mozilla mob VP Vince Vizzaccaro didn't pin all of Firefox's upsurge on a change last
month to its update dialog, he did note the new approach. "Mozilla has ... (more)

Firefox Spoofing Bug Puts Passwords At Risk (Saturday 05th of January 2008 06:15:02 AM)

Hairyfeet writes "Aviv Raff, an Israeli tester known for his work in hunting browser bugs, has
revealed a Firefox spoofing vulnerability which could allow identity thieves to dupe users into
giving up their password. as it should be to Mr. Raff Firefox ... (more)

First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 (Thursday 20th of December 2007 12:30:07 PM)

DaMan writes "ZDNet takes Firefox 3.0 beta 2 for a spin and draws some conclusions that should
be sweet music to Mozilla's ears. "Beta 2 feels snappier and far more responsive than beta 1
(or Firefox 2.0 for that matter) and I can feel the ... (more)

Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:30:01 PM)

An anonymous reader writes "Several sites are reporting that a student has been given detention
for using Firefox to do his classwork. No, really. The student was in class, working on an
assignment that necessitated using a browser. The teacher instructed ... (more)

Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes (Monday 03rd of December 2007 08:45:03 PM)

Theranjan writes "When a Security Strategy skipper* at Microsoft decided to compare but
intranet should be lowercase; hyperspace was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first
popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet Explorer security vulnerabilities ... (more)

Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw (Wednesday 28th of November 2007 02:00:05 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Apple's QuickTime media player ms-dos contains a one shot undocumented
security weakness in the way QuickTime handles the RTSP media-streaming protocol. The
vulnerability is present in QuickTime versions 4.0 through 7.3 (the latest ... (more)

 

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