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RSS firefox 2Anti-malware: Top of the list for Internet Explorer 8
News Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 both recently added anti-malware protection. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. The features are designed to combat the rising tide of drive-by... [03 Jul 2008]
Mozilla: Eight million downloads for Firefox 3
News Mozilla has said more than eight million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in its first 24 hours online. It's likely the majority of those who downloaded Firefox 3 at this stage will just use it to replace Firefox 2, not a competitor such as... [19 Jun 2008]
Firefox 3 - World Record attempt in the making?
News Mozilla is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads of an application in one day, on the release of its Firefox 3 web browser. During the first 24 hours of Firefox 3's release, Mozilla is aiming for more than 1.6... [30 May 2008]
Asus dives into instant Linux
News Splashtop includes a Firefox-derived browser and the Skype internet-telephony application. Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers. [19 May 2008]
Malicious software overtakes friendly apps
News Web browser Mozilla Firefox was also found to have contained more vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer in the report. For the first time, the amount of malicious software being released has outstripped that of legitimate software, according to... [09 Apr 2008]
Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace
News In contrast, Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 virtually replaced Firefox 1.5 the same period after its release. The proportion of users on Firefox actually doubled during 2007, with 18 per cent using it at the end of the year. [02 Apr 2008]
Microsoft unveils web tool betas
News With Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari out there, we really don't need another web browser these days," said Keith Smith, director of product management for Microsoft's developer tools division.What we need to do is to focus on the 'scenario... [09 Mar 2008]
Phishing sites doubled last month - report
News They do this to get around website blocking that Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 have deployed. April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the Anti-Phishing Working Group. [25 May 2007]
Paris turns 175,000 kids onto open source
News The president of the local council, Jean-Paul Huchon, is a self-confessed "partisan of the rebalancing of the supply of proprietary and open source software", who previously welcomed the launch of the Firefox 2 browser and led the support for a... [05 Feb 2007]
Passwords at risk from Firefox, IE flaw
News Both the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 web browsers are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Firefox Password Manager will automatically enter any saved passwords and usernames... [23 Nov 2006]
Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2.0 bug claims
News A day after shipping Firefox 2.0, Mozilla largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version of the web browser. Bug hunters appear to be in a race to uncover new security flaws in both Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7, which... [26 Oct 2006]
IE 7 ready for download
News After months of ceding market share to Firefox, Microsoft has gained back a bit, according to the most recent statistics from OneStat. Firefox has 11.5 per cent of the market, down 1.4 percentage points compared with July. [19 Oct 2006]
First release Firefox 2 up for grabs
News The Mozilla Foundation announced on Tuesday the availability of Release Candidate 1 of its Firefox 2 browser but warned that its free, open source browser might have a few leftover bugs and suggests only experienced users and developers download... [27 Sep 2006]
Microsoft reaches out to Firefox lovers
News The head of Microsoft's open source business has offered help to get Firefox to work with the upcoming Vista operating system but it remains to be seen if Mozilla and the open source community will respond positively to the gesture. [22 Aug 2006]
Firefox 2.0 release put on ice
News The release of Firefox 2.0 has been delayed until 24 October, with a Beta 2 release scheduled for 23 August, according to Mozilla. Some of the Firefox bugs still being addressed affect visual refresh, panel preferences, tab overflow, spell check... [17 Aug 2006]
