Another security release for Firefox2 have been pushed to the community on May 30, 2007. Firefox 2.0.0.4 fixes 5 security issues including a XUL Popup Spoofing, XSS using addEventListener, Path Abuse in Cookies, and Persistent Autocomplete Denial of Service. The...
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November 22, 2006
Another security bug have hit the Firefox community today after that Mozilla made public bug #360493. The bug exposes Firefox's Password Manager on many public sites, for example, username/password input tags on a Myspace user's site will be unhelpfully propagated...
November 14, 2006
If you didn't decide yet about switching from IE to Firefox, here is a study that might help you to decide. The new study pitted the anti-phishing technology in Firefox 2.0 against that of IE7 and generated some interesting results....
November 1, 2006
One of the new features in the latest Firefox 2 is the Phishing protection, a feature that warns you of suspected Web forgeries, and offers to take you directly to a search page so you can find the real Web...
September 26, 2006
I was reading an article on arstechnica by Eric Bangeman about the Number of browser vulnerabilities rising. The post is based on a recent study by Symantec and show Firefox in the top browsers of vulnerabilities discovered with 47 bugs,...
May 29, 2006
McAfee have a new Safe Browsing experience SiteAdvisor, which can keep you safe from spyware, spam, viruses and online scams. SiteAdvisor was founded in April 2005 by a group of MIT engineers who wanted to make the Web safer for...
May 3, 2006
A new Firefox patch have been released fixing the denial of service vulnerability which have been discovered in the Firefox 1.5.0.2 : Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root...
February 15, 2006
Firefox users are more convincent that Firefox is more secure than IE, by experience you can feel the change ! But if you still wondering, secunia is a very known security website and have excellent statistical information about patched bugs...
February 12, 2006
Slashdotted friday : According to two University of Washington Professors, Firefox users have a safer browsing experice than users of IE. These researchers sent their crawlers to 45,000 websites and studied the impact on Firefox and IE." From the article:...
October 23, 2005
phpmagazine.net is now a reference for many topics including PHP, Oracle, SEO, blogging, Firefox, Mobile, AJAX, Googling ... We have established the PHP Magazine toolbar to read easily our news and search for informations directly from firefox. What does the...
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