The Mozilla Firefox team has released a new version of the upcoming Firefox web browser. The version is called Firefox 3.5 Preview by the team and is listed as Firefox 3.5b99 on the Mozilla ftp site and about pages in the web browser. Users who are already working with the Firefox 3.5x branch can update [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Internet Browsers: Firefox 3.0.10 Update
An update to the Internet browser Firefox has been released a couple of hours ago out of the usual release cycle. It is a security update that is fixing one critical security vulnerability and one major stability issue. Critical security vulnerabilities are classified as those that require no user interaction and allow the attacker to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Prepare For Firefox 3.0.9.
A new version of the popular web browser Firefox is currently distributed to all major and minor Firefox mirror sites to be ready for the usual traffic demand when millions of Firefox users try to update their web browser to the latest version. Both the update check in the web browser and the links on [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Web Browser: Firefox 3.0.8
The Mozilla Firefox development team had to react quickly after a working vulnerability was discovered affecting all the latest versions of the Firefox web browser. (read Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit). After news about the vulnerability spread like wildfire on the Internet a first official statement was released that was suggesting an [...]
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Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit
Dante send me a tip about a 0-day exploit that is affecting the latest versions of the popular Firefox web browser. The exploit is described as a remote memory-corruption vulnerability that is affecting Firefox running on all supported operating systems. A proof of concept has been published by the security researcher and the Mozilla team [...]
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Web Browser: Firefox 3.0.7
A new update to the popular Firefox web browser is currently distributed to mirror sites across the world. The release is already available at selected mirror sites and raises the version of the Firefox web browser to 3.0.7. The beta release notes which have been published in the end of February are mentioning that Firefox [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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The Ultimate Firefox Download Extensions List
Mozilla Firefox is already a complete web browser. Its extensions, user generated add-ons for the web browser, heave it to the next level and make it a browser that sticks out of the masses. This article will list the most important extensions to download files with the Firefox browser. The following list contains the most [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 3 Site Specific Zoom
The last article about Firefox’s zoom capabilities received several interesting comments about the zoom function. What many users who commented did not know was that the zooming behavior changed in Firefox 3. It is still possible to zoom in or out of a website using keyboard shortcuts or the Firefox menu but observant visitors will [...]
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Remove Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant From Firefox
If you take a look at the installed add-ons in Firefox you might notice an add-on called Microsoft .net Framework Assistant. That add-on is different from most other installed add-ons. The first thing that you will notice is that you cannot uninstall it as the uninstall option is inactive in Firefox. You might also realize [...]