Firefox 29 ships with an interface redesign called Australis, a new customization mode that goes along with it, and a redesigned Firefox Sync synchronization feature that is incompatible with the old.
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Adobe has worked with Apple to sandbox Flash Player under Safari in Mac OS X, restricting the ability of attackers to exploit any vulnerabilities they might find in the browser plug-in. (more…)
Jared Wein of Mozilla blogged last month about a new feature he was developing for Firefox 14 called “click-to-play”. The idea is to block the default loading of plugins like Java and Flash when surfing to reduce the memory footprint and provide protection against exploitation of plugin vulnerabilities.
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Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 10 Fixes.
Firefox pushed out another BETA release also being cited as a Release Candidate, the list below covers all of the fixes in this latest push. Since Mozilla is calling it a Release Candidate they likely are ontrack to hit their target release date of January 31, 2012.
Internet browser users are going to have to deal with a new threat soon and it’s not related to JavaScript. There is an unusual vulnerability in some Mozilla products (including Firefox) that run on the Gecko engine. This vulnerability allows for malware writers to detect key strokes even when Javascript is disabled.
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