Mozilla releases Firefox 3 Alpha 6
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Blog: Latest version still recommended only for developers.
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 is more stable and polished than Beta 1, but while it's not quite ready for prime time, it does show some of the nifty new tools we can expect when Mozilla's browser ships.
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Surf's up for privacy A modified version of Mozilla Firefox that lets users browse the web anonymously has been released.â¦
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Mozilla Corporation on Tuesday released the first official release candidate of Firefox 2.0, signaling the second-generation browser is nearing completion. Previously slated for release in August, Mozilla pushed back version 2.0 until October due to last-minute bugs and security issues.
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Three days ahead of schedule, Mozilla Corp. has released Beta 2 of its upcoming Firefox 3.0 Web browser.
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Edging towards release Mozilla released a second beta version of its upcoming Firefox 2.0 browser on Thursday. The release is targeted at developers and intended to generate more feedback while also incorporating a number of bug fixes contained in the Beta 1 version of the code, released in July.â¦
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The Mozilla Foundation has fixed 10 security bugs in its open-source Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox browsers and Thunderbird e-mail reader, with the release of new versions of all three products this week.
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Mozilla's next iteration of its Firefox browser was supposed to be released in beta this month. That hasn't happened, but you can still check it out in its alpha phase.
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Mozilla has released a critical security update to Firefox, taking a third shot at patching bugs in the way the browser can be used to launch programs from Web links.The bug, rated &quot;moderate&quot; by Mozilla, lies in the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) protocol handling technology that is used to launch programs -- an e-mail client for example -- from within the browser. Over the past few months, security researchers have been discovering an increasing number of ways that this technology can be misused, often as a way to install unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer.The URI patch is one of eight security bug-fixes that Mozilla has pushed out with the 2.0.0.8 update, released late Thursday.Mozilla developers originally thought that the issue lay within Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer software, which could be invoked in a malicious fashion via Firefox. Several days after issuing their first patch, however, they realized that there was a problem with Firefox as well, and rushed out the 2.0.0.6 update.Now, three months after that fix, they&#39;ve patched another URI bug in Firefox that will cut down on the likelihood of programs being launched maliciously through the browser. The 2.0.0.6 release &quot;did not prevent the incorrect file-handling programs from launching which left some risk,&quot; Mozilla said in its advisory . &quot;An additional fix has been applied to Firefox 2.0.0.8 that detects when Windows would mishandle these URIs so that the wrong program does not get launched.&quot;Mozilla developers weren&#39;t certain that this latest twist on the URI problem could really be exploited in Firefox, but they decided to issue this latest URI patch rather than wait to find out for certain, said Window Snyder, Mozilla&#39;s security chief. &quot;We could just say this particular vector is not an issue because we do not have proof,&quot; she said. &quot;We could leave it alone. Rather than spend our time analyzing whether this is a vector that could be vulnerable, we would rather put the block in place and eliminate the possibility. This is a defense-in-depth measure.&quot;Microsoft has said that it plans to patch underlying components in the Windows operating system in an effort to prevent URI protocol handler attacks, and that will probably go a long way in preventing new attacks from cropping up, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations, with nCircle Network Security. &quot;We have to applaud the Mozilla team for attempting to protect their users, but in the end, it&#39;s going to be a Microsoft responsibility,&quot; he said.Of the eight vulnerabilities patched Thursday, two are rated critical by Mozilla.The 2.0.0.8 release also adds support for Apple&#39;s Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, code-named Leopard, although Mozilla warns &quot;there are some known issues affecting some media plugins,&quot; on this platform.
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TechWeb - Mozilla updates its Firefox browser to fix 7 flaws, including 4 pegged by the open-source developer as critical.
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Testing times Mozilla is calling on developers to help it ensure that the next version of the open source web browser is solid. And it has released an alpha version of Firefox 3 for developers to play with.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Mozillahas released a new test version of Firefox 2.0, which will be the next major version of its popular open-source browser. Firefox 2.0 Beta 2, released Thursday at about 3 p.m. Pacific time, features an improved user interface and a limited version of the phishing protection feature that Mozilla is developing for the browser. More information on the Beta 2 release can be foundÂ here. Beta 2 also comes with improved search capabilities, a spellchecker for Web forms, and jazzed-up tabbed browsing capabilities. This second beta release will probably be the last beta version of Firefox 2.0. Developers are now planning to ship a nearly final "release candidate" edition of the browser on Sept. 19, with the finished product going out the door by the end of October. Mozilla had been hoping to have Firefox 2.0 finished by September, but that date was pushed back recently to give developers more time to squash the growing list of bugs in the beta code. Both Mozilla and Microsoft are rushing to finish major updates to their browser software. Late last week Microsoft posted the first release-candidate version of Internet Explorer 7, and it is expecting to ship the final version of the next-generation browser by year's end. The release candidate can be foundÂ here. Research company OneStat.com estimates that about 13 percent of Web surfers now use Firefox. The Netherlands-based company pegs IE users at 83 percent.
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Firefox 1.0, the long-awaited version of the popular Open Source browser, has been released. The Mozilla Foundation released the preview version of 1.0 in September, and it saw as much as 125,000 downloads
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The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser.
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Mozilla Corp. has released the last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0; the new browser moves to beta testing at the end of the month and is due out in final form by the end of the year.
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Firefox 3.0's memory consumption is "dramatically improved," Mozilla's chief engineer says.
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Mozilla will today launch the nearly-final version of Firefox, its open source web browser, ahead of the 1.0 product launch on 9 November.