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Microsoft Fights Back with Internet Explorer 9

IE-9In our series on browsers, we looked extensively at the latest versions (including test versions) of the top 5 mainstream browsers — Opera 10.0, Firefox 3.6 (a1 at the time), Safari 4, Internet Explorer 8, and Google Chrome 4 (this series had four entries which you can find here 1, 2, 3, and 4). We found that Microsoft Internet Explorer had some compelling strengths, such as its security, but overall used too much memory, CPU, and was too slow.

Microsoft is aware of these concerns and it has been racing to develop a successor to IE 8 — Internet Explorer 9. IE 9 looks to be everything IE 8 wasn’t — fast and lean. With the forthcoming release, Microsoft looks to give Internet Explorer a makeover akin to the Windows Vista to Windows 7 transition.  Read more...

Firefox Now The Most Vulnerable Browser?

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The number of security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser were so numerous for so long that it was routinely flagged as the most vulnerable Web browser on the market—in no small part because it was also the most widely-used browser on the market. However, competitors like Firefox have been gradually eroding Microsoft’s browser share…and now they’re starting to feel more security pressures themselves. In fact, Web security firm Cenzic has just released its application security vulnerability report for the first half of 2009 (PDF), and guess what browser tops the list? Firefox.  Read more...

Firefox, Over A Billion Served

Firefox, Over A Billion Served

Back in 2004 the first Firefox browser peeked its head over the parapets as a challenger to the mighty Internet Explorer. Last Friday saw Firefox serve up its billionth download of all versions of the browser from Mozilla, with figures suggesting that at 31%, it’s captured almost one-third of the browser market.

It still stands behind IE, which has a 60% share, but well ahead of Safari, Chrome and Opera, each of which can only claim less than 5%.

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Mozilla Gives Firefox 3.5 Vulnerability Warning

Mozilla Gives Firefox 3.5 Vulnerability Warning

Firefox 3.5 was released last month with plenty of fanfare, but already Mozilla has had to issue a warning of a critical JavaScript flaw in the new browser.

The problem lies in the just-in-time (JIT) component of the JavaScript tool, and an exploit could let an attacker remotely execute code on the system – and a working exploit has been released. JIT is part of TraceMonkey, which was added for this release of the browser.

Although no patch has yet been developed, Mozilla says users can work around the problem by disabling the Firefox 3.5 JIT compiler, although this will reduce JavaScript performance.

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Firefox 3.5 Adds Features, Claims to Be Twice as Fast

Firefox 3.5 Adds Features, Claims to Be Twice as Fast

The Mozilla Corporation has released Firefox 3.5, the latest version of its free open source Web browser. And although Firefox 3.5’s new features and capabilities won’t be any surprise to anyone who’s been participating in the beta process, for the general Web-using public the put Firefox right back in the thick of things with the likes of Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome…and, of course, with the explicit intent of leaving Internet Explorer in the dust.

“So much is happening on the Web right now, it’s a great time for browsers,” said Mozilla CEO John Lilly, in a statement. “Firefox 3.5 brings together the most innovative Web technologies and delivers them in the most complete and powerful modern browser.”

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Firefox 3.5 Due Before The End Of The Month

Firefox 3.5 Due Before The End Of The Month

Firefox 3.5, due to be released in a final version before the end of June, was meant to be Firefox 3.1. Then Mozilla, the company behind it, became more ambitious, and so the release date was put back.

However, the company insists it will be worth the wait, since it will offer a total of 5,000 new features, including built-in video, geolocation, faster loading of pages, and much more.

"We’ve added technology we think upgrades the web itself," Firefox director Mike Beltzner told CNET.

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IE And Firefox Get Patches

IE And Firefox Get Patches

As promised, Microsoft issued an emergency patch yesterday for the exploitable hole in all versions of the Internet Explorer browser. At the same time, Mozilla came out with a patch that covers eight security problems in Firefox 2 and 3 – the last time there will be a patch for Firefox 2, as security support for that version ends. The company is urging users to upgrade to Firefox 3.

There will also no longer be anti-phishing protection for Firefox 2 as Google has dropped support for that version’s phishing blacklist.

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Firefox Plug-In Malware Found

Firefox Plug-In Malware Found

If you use Firefox, be very aware. Security company BitDefender has discovered new malware that disguises itself as a plug-in for the browser.

It masquerades as Greasemonkey, an add-on that allows users to write and execute custom scripts to add or augment web page data, according to Vnunet. Instead, it becomes active every time the browser is loaded and tries to steal personal details, especially for financial sites, before transmitting them to a server in Russia.

Viorel Canja, who heads up BitDefender’s anti-virus lab, said:

"Users should be aware of the risks they are facing if such confidential information is stolen."

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Beware Firefox China Add-On

Firefox is proud of its browser add-ons, and has even started Fashion Your Firefox to package them for users. But yesterday it warned people off some add-ons that they class as “experimental,” such as the China Channel, which allows people to surf the Web with the restrictions they’d find in China.

A Mozilla spokesman said:

“They haven’t been approved and so they may pose risks to users.”

Around 1000 users have downloaded the China Channel. One user experienced an “uninstall bug” and lost all proxy settings after he closed Firefox. Vnunet tested the channel and discovered that pages blocked by the channel stayed blocked even after disabling the add-on.  Read more...

Fashion Your Firefox

Fashion Your Firefox

Mozilla says there are around five thousand separate add-ons for the Firefox browser, and over a billion add-ons have been downloaded to date. So now they’ve come up with Fashion Your Firefox, a novel tool to provide users with a custom set of add-ons.

Are you into music? Try the ‘Rock Star’ bundle, as a way to listen to and discover new music. There are also bundles for Decorators, Social Butterflies and others. It’s cute, but also fairly practical, according to David Rolnitzky, program manager in charge of add-ons for Firefox.

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