Enterprise Resistance May Limit Firefox Growth
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Upstart open-source Web browser Firefox has captured 5 percent of the browser market, according to Web analytics firm WebSideStory. At the same time,  Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer has seen its market share drop to just over 90 percent.
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The Web is filling up with rumors about an alliance between search giant and browser maker Firefox. LONDON  - The Firefox browser is looking for allies in its quest to challenge Microsoft&#39;s dominant
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While Mozilla may get all the credit for finally dethroning Internet Explorer as the only dominant Web browser with its development of Firefox, the man behind the curtain continues to be Google, which provides the vast majority of the cash that keeps Mozilla going.
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Among the online worldâs hottest commodities, nothing sizzles quite like Firefox, the new Web browser by the California-based Mozilla Foundation thatâs causing sleeplessness in and around Seattle, Microsoft Corpâs home turf.
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Firefox continues to grow in Europe, with the browser share now approaching 30 percent. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer has gone below 70 percent.
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Just because Firefox is free and open source doesn&#39;t mean developers aren&#39;t cashing in on the popularity of the Mozilla Foundation&#39;s new browser.
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InfoWorld - Makers of some of the most popular extension software used by the Firefox browser are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher said Wednesday.
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Mozilla Corp. may add a tool to the next version of its Firefox browser that would block Web sites identified by Google as potentially harboring malware.
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A new front has been opened in the long-dormant browser war, with an open-source program called Firefox aiming to challenge Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.
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The publicity avalanche surrounding FireFox continues unabated. News.com profiles developers at the forefront of the FireFox developer movement and explains how some crafty developers are taking advantage
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New update for the Firefox browser could be pushed out soon.
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(InfoWorld) - Makers of some of the most popular extension software used by the Firefox browser are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher said Wednesday. The problem is that many widely used Firefox extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo, and AOL, do not use secure connections to update themselves, according to Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher who blogged about the issue on Wednesday. Soghoian is best known as the researcher who attracted the attention of the FBI late last year after publishing a tool that could be used to print fake boarding passes. The Indiana University doctoral student discovered the Firefox issue last month while examining network traffic on his computer. He noticed that many of the most popular Firefox extensions are not hosted on servers that use the SSL Web protocol. SSL Web sites, which begin with "https://," use digital certificates to provide users with some level of assurance that they're not connecting with a fake server. Although the corporation behind Firefox, Mozilla, hosts the majority of Firefox extensions on its own SSL-enabled Web site, it is common for commercial extension-makers like Google to host their software on an unsecured site, Soghoian said in an interview. This leaves users vulnerable to a "man-in-the middle" attack, where Firefox could be tricked into downloading malicious software from a site it mistakenly thought was hosting an extension. It wouldn't be easy for an attacker to pull this off, however. In one scenario, the hacker would set up a malicious wireless access point in a public area where people are using wireless connections. He could then redirect extension update traffic to a malicious computer. "An attacker who sets up a wireless access point can then infect anyone who connects to it," Soghoian said. The Del.icio.us Extension, Facebook Toolbar, Ask.com Toolbar, LinkedIn Browser Toolbar, Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar, and PhishTank SiteChecker are also vulnerable to this issue, Soghoian said. Though Soghoian said Firefox users should avoid extensions that are not from the secure Firefox add-ons site, not all security researchers see this as a major issue. "It's just yet another vulnerable design among billions,"said Gadi Evron, security evangelist for Beyond Security. "I don't see it as that critical. There is no inherent vulnerability, but it does make the over-whole design weaker, and that should probably be addressed" Evron said it was "silly" that sites weren't using SSL for these extensions. Soghoian said he notified Google, Yahoo, and Facebook of the issue in mid-April, but nobody had addressed the issue as of Wednesday. Just hours after Soghoian went public with his findings, Google said it would "soon" have a fix for the problem. It's common for Web developers to ignore security in the rush to push out new and cool features, Soghoian said. "Your average Web 2.0 developer doesn't learn about security," he said. "Google has a spectacular security team ... my suspicion is that one hand wasn't talking to the other."
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The Firefox Web browser has been causing a commotion among users and snaring snippets of market share from Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer since June--long before Version 1.0 of the open-source software was officially released earlier this month.
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FireWire faces major challenges from other interfaces and a stagnating marketshare.
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Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to gain market share.  However, the launch of Internet Explorer 7 by Microsoft may have acted to temper some of the alternative browser's gains.
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Alternative Web browsers Mozilla and Firefox experienced another month of growth at the expense of Microsoft&#39;s dominant Internet Explorer, according to an online study.
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Blog: Critical security flaw found in Firefox 2.0 and later versions potentially puts users' systems at risk of a remote attack.