Mozilla can live without Google's money, Baker says
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Mozilla Corp. will walk away from Google Inc. and the millions it collects from the search company each year, if that's what it takes to stay independent, the open-source developer's CEO promised.
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Mozilla is trying to weave a new web. Not sure if it matters yet.
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ONE OF THE founders of the Web warned that the interweb was in danger of being stunted by patent hungry software companies. Tim Berners-Lee called on companies to resist the temptation to lock up key technologies by demanding royalty payments.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Google board member and investor John Doerr said Tuesday that despite speculation, the search giant would not enter in the Web browser market, but he predicted others would.
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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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The search giant Google is rumoured to be working on its own web browser.
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Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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INTERVIEW Gary Schare, Director of Windows Product Management at Microsoft, sat down with BetaNews to discuss the future of IE, including the possibility of tabbed browsing, Mozilla's "free ride," and why Microsoft feels it is better equipped to handle security. This is part two of a two-part interview. In part one, Schare talks about the pitfalls of open source software when it comes to backwards compatibility.
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Mozilla's Mike Shaver tells us how the redesign of Firefox's community site will better serve its web tinkerers. Wired News Q&A by Michael Calore.
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Google and Mozilla may or may not be working on a Web browser together, but the two are cozier than ever with Firefox&#39;s latest release.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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Mozilla Firefox is a safe, free, fast, simple and compatible Web browser that may be the answer to letting go of Internet Explorer once and for all.
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(InfoWorld) - The Internet has an ever-growing role to play in allowing free expression across the globe, but only if attempts to reign it in are unsuccessful, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. Schmidt, speaking in Washington, D.C., warned his audience that the Internet will continue to create public policy challenges asÂ another billion users move online in the coming years. One reaction to a perceived loss of privacy and to new Internet users questioning repressive governments will be to clamp down on information, he said. "[That approach] appeals to people who prize order over everything else," said Schmidt, speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's launch of a global think tank. "Those people exist everywhere." Schmidt acknowledged that a completely free flow of information over the Internet can be messy, but an unfettered Internet gives people the best information, he said. "The Internet has empowered people in a way we've never seen before. What we say at Google is, 'Don't bet against the Internet.'" he said In the coming years, governments will have to deal with a series of questions as more people come online, he said. The second billion Internet users will often compare the way their countries govern with other governments, he predicted. "They're going to see their government has been treating them badly," he said. "They're going to be annoyed." Some governments will struggle with how much free expression is too much, he said. Even in Western democracies, such as France and Germany, posting information about the Nazi Party is prohibited, Schmidt said, and other governments will struggle with what expression to allow. Schmidt said he hopes governments will err on the side of freedom, but free expression will continue to be a hot debate in coming years. "Have we gained more freedom than we want?" he said. "Freedom of choice may be more choice than people want." And with computers able to store more and more information, governments will struggle with the idea of privacy, Schmidt added. Many people will eventually regret rants or photos put online 20 or 30 years earlier. "What happens to personal privacy when everything that's created exists forever?" he said. "My daughter calls this 'too much sharing in your early life.'" The Internet creates paradoxes, Schmidt said. It creates a global marketplace, but it also allows people to segment themselves into tribes, he said. It allows the truth to emerge faster than with other mediums, but it also allows users to spread false information. "If you don't like a piece of information, spread some information," he said of the attitude of many Internet users. "People here wouldn't do that." When he heard groans from the Washington crowd, Schmidt amended his statement. "I should say, people in this room wouldn't do that," he said. Despite the policy questions, Schmidt encouraged the audience to work for ways to open information up to more people across the globe. "Globalization is fundamentally about universal access to information," he said. "This information revolution that's coming can be shaped."
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Mozilla Corp. has acknowledged that hackers can drop malicious code into systems running Firefox when the browser is armed with any of several high-profile add-ons, including Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar.
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Google Browser May Become Reality  There has been much fanfare in the Mozilla fan camps about the possibility of Google using Mozilla browser technology to produce a GBrowser - the Google Browser. Over the past two weeks, the news and speculation has escalated to the point where even Google itself is ...
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Mozilla Corp. is gung-ho on support for offline applications, but it's not committed to using the Google Gears technologies in the next Firefox, an executive of the open-source developer said.
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla's security chief Tuesday panned a pair of Firefox bugs revealed Monday as low-level threats but hours later changed her mind and said that when used together, they could pose a greater risk. The researcher who disclosed the vulnerabilities agreed with her. Mostly. Michael Zalewski, who regularly publishes browser flaw findings, on Monday posted details on the Full-disclosure mailing list about four browser vulnerabilities, including two affecting Firefox. He categorized one as a "major" threat, and he saw the other as only a "medium" threat. In an entry on the Mozilla security blog -- which debuted last week -- Window Snyder, the company's chief security officer, said the more serious of the two bugs found by Zalewski was no more than a spoofing vulnerability and deserved only a "low" rating. "This is unsafe because it could be used to lure a user to enter content into the spoofed frame but does not result in code execution," said Snyder. "[For example] this might be used with phishing attacks." Her take doesn't jibe with Zalewski's contention that the flaw can be used to stick malicious code onto the victimized computer. "By my book, [this is] more serious than just spoofing, so I marked it as 'major,' whereas Mozilla still considers it to be a typical case of spoofing ('low')," said Zalewski in an e-mail interview Wednesday. "But it would be inaccurate to say that Window's assessment contradicts my analysis." Later Tuesday, Snyder updated her blog, saying that after further review, "these two bugs may be used together to allow an attacker to access any file the user has access to on the system. If this is the case, that may change the severity rating to 'medium'." Zalewski dismissed the idea that he and Mozilla's Snyder were at odds and instead turned attention to what he thinks is most important. "All in all, I think we pretty much agree here," he said. "The big issue [of the four vulnerabilities] was the Microsoft Internet Explorer flaw. The other three are important, but not critical." According to entries in Mozilla's Bugzilla, the more serious of the two Firefox flaws has not yet been assigned to someone for a fix. Snyder, meanwhile, said that the Mozilla security team is looking into changes to improve content handler management, the root cause of the bug she pegged as "low." Zalewski on Monday noted on the Full-disclosure mailing list that it appears Apple's Safari browser is also vulnerable to same bug he found in IE6 and IE7 and labeled "critical." Tuesday, Kevin Finisterre, a researcher known for the "Month of Apple Bugs" project in January, confirmed Zalewski's Safari suspicions. Apple officials did not reply to a request for comment.