Reports about an unpatched security vulnerability in Firefox 3.6 that has been in existence since the beginning of February have been released on the Internet. Not a lot of information are known about the security vulnerability other than it has been successfully used to exploit Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista with [...]

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Mozilla has announced plans to update the Firefox 3.0.x and Firefox 3.5.x branch today earlier this week. The updates are currently distributed to the official mirror server network to be prepared for the increased traffic after the official release announcement. Both releases are security and stability updates and therefor recommended to be installed by Firefox [...]

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Mozilla performs antivirus scans on add-ons that are added by developers to the add-on repository. These add-ons are then offered as experimental add-ons until they pass a human review which adds them fully to the add-on directory. It came to light today that two add-ons that have been offered at the add-on repository had been [...]

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The Mozilla Firefox developers have begun spreading the new Firefox 3.5.6 to the ftp mirror servers around the world which is an indication that the public release is imminent. Release notes and information have not been updated yet. The beta release notes mention several security and stability updates in this new version of the popular [...]

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Companies basically have three options if they want their software programs to be compatible with Firefox: They can create a Firefox add-on, a plugin, or integrate the program in the components directory directly. The last option caused lots of concern for the Mozilla developers who linked these method to instabilities and crashes in the web [...]

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Two new versions of Firefox were uploaded yesterday to the Firefox ftp server and website. Firefox 3.5.4 and Firefox 3.0.15 are now available. The automatic update in the web browser should have already recognized the new version and suggested an update to the user. Users who prefer manual updates can visit the Firefox website over [...]

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Yesterday’s incident (read Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox for pointers) brought up a question on how the plugin that caused the problems was installed it first place. Mozilla Firefox users with the Microsoft net. Framework 3.5 SP1 had the plugin installed without them accepting the installation of the plugin. This can [...]

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Firefox users with the latest Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed might have noticed a message yesterday on browser startup that was telling them that the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin and the Microsoft .net Framework Assistant add-on. Quite a few things puzzled many users about this: Most were pretty sure that they did not install [...]

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If you have recently opened your Firefox web browser you might have noticed a notification from the web browser that the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin was disabled to protect the user and the web browser. Many users who received the message were a bit puzzled as they did not install the plugin in first place. [...]

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