Firefox 3 Still Stuck in Alpha Phase
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Mozilla's next iteration of its Firefox browser was supposed to be released in beta this month. That hasn't happened, but you can still check it out in its alpha phase.
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Mozilla Corporation on Tuesday released the first official release candidate of Firefox 2.0, signaling the second-generation browser is nearing completion. Previously slated for release in August, Mozilla pushed back version 2.0 until October due to last-minute bugs and security issues.
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InfoWorld - Mozilla has released a critical security update to Firefox, taking a third shot at patching bugs in the way the browser can be used to launch programs from Web links.
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Today, the Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox browser officially launched -- welcome, version 1.0. In a way, it&#39;s much ado about nothing, seeing how it wasn&#39;t that long ago that we reported on how Mozilla had set
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THE MAKERS of the free open source browser Firefox are expected to release version 1.0 today. Although it will technically be a preview release, with the full 1.0 version hitting the web in about a month&#39;s
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ezberry writes &quot;After releasing version 1.0 of Firefox, what&#39;s ahead for the Mozilla Foundation and the venerable Firefox browser?
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla updated the preview of Firefox 3.0 to alpha 8 Thursday, unveiling for the first time to users several security features it has talked up for months. Among the security provisions debuting in the new alpha of "Gran Paradiso," the code name for Firefox 3.0, are built-in anti-malware warnings and protection against rogue extension updates, according to documentation Mozilla posted to its Web site. The malware blocker, which was first mocked up in June, will block Web sites thought to contain malicious downloads. The feature, a companion to the phishing site alert system in the current Firefox 2.0, will use information provided by Google to flag potentially-dangerous sites, warn anyone trying to reach those URLs with Firefox, and automatically block access to the site. Mozilla also pointed to a URL that demonstrates the new malware blocker for alpha 8 users. Also taking a bow is a check meant to prevent plug-ins' automatic updates from sending users to malicious sites where they might be infected by attack code or drive-by downloads. Firefox relies on small plug-ins -- called "extensions" in the Mozilla vernacular -- for much of its power and flexibility. Several thousand extensions have been written, the vast bulk of them by outside developers, that do everything from boost browsing speed to block irritating Flash animations. Firefox regularly checks to see if the installed extensions are up to date, and, if not, automatically pulls in the newest version and installs it. "Firefox automatically checks for updates to add-ons using a URL specified in the add-on's install manifest," Mozilla spells out in a developer's document. "Currently there are no requirements placed on these URLs. In particular, [they are not] required to be https. This allows either the update manifest or the update package to be compromised, potentially resulting in the injection of malicious updates. A demonstration of one form of compromise is already public." Most extensions are hosted on Mozilla's own servers -- at the servers feeding its Add-ons site -- but some are not; it's those off-site extensions that Mozilla wants to lock down. To stymie attacks through a compromised extension update, Mozilla will require updates -- both the actual update package and the much smaller "manifest," or notification of an update -- to be delivered over an SSL-secured connection. Or the update must be digitally signed. The change doesn't affect the initial installation of an extension, something Mozilla recognized. "[This] has no impact on the security of initial add-on installs," it told developers in the online guide. This newest preview, which can be downloaded in versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux from the Mozilla site, still comes with a warning to end-users. "Alpha 8 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha 8," the browser's release notes. Mozilla has not officially committed to a release date for the final version of Firefox 3.0. Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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By the day of its release last week, Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox 1.0 had already garnered 3% of the Web-browser market. Not bad for a new product competing directly with Microsoft&#39;s widely entrenched Internet Explorer.
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Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla&#39;s Firefox browser is showing undeniable momentum--but does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft&#39;s monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web?
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Mozilla has released a preview version of its open source FireFox Web browser. FireFox 1.0PR includes some bug fixes and many new features, including Live Bookmarks, a new Find toolbar and better IE compatability.
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Testing times Mozilla is calling on developers to help it ensure that the next version of the open source web browser is solid. And it has released an alpha version of Firefox 3 for developers to play with.â¦
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Firefox continues to bite into Internet Explorer's market share. But users and analysts say that Mozilla hasn't changed its laissez-faire attitude about trying to get IT managers to formally adopt the open-source browser.
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The latest release of Mozilla's lightweight browser for the Mac hints at a major upgrade around the corner. In Monkey Bites.
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The Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox stand-alone browser, which has been riding a wave of defectors from the security-plagued Internet Explorer, has a bug of its own, the open-source group recently announced.
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Jim Plush got impatient for Zend to update their Zend Studio Plugin for Mozilla and Firefox, so he did it himself.   Again, I can't wait any longer for people to update firefox2 extensions. Here is a download link for the Zend Toolbar Extension for Firefox 2: http://www.litfuel.net/plush/files/ZendFirefoxToolbar-1.5.1.xpi.   The Zend Studio Plugin for Mozilla/Firefox allows developers to debug and profile PHP applications (running on the Zend Platform) through the web. Check out Zend's page for more information.
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Mock-ups illustrate how Firefox developers are working to make the upcoming version 3 conform with the look of the OS on which it's running.
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla patched its flagship Firefox browser Thursday with fixes for six vulnerabilities, one of which was stamped "critical" by the open-source developer. This was the third time Mozilla has updated Firefox in 2007. The updates bring the current browser to Version 2.0.0.4 and the 2005 edition to 1.5.0.12. MFSA 2007-12, the most serious of the six, patched 30 separate memory corruption bugs in the browser layout and JavaScript engines. Even Mozilla seemed unsure of their impact. "Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort, at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code," the advisory read. Mozilla warned Thunderbird and SeaMonkey that their e-mail software, which shares Firefox's layout engine, may be vulnerable to these bugs as well. The developers recommend that users do not enable JavaScript in Thunderbird or the mail portion of SeaMonkey. The updates also fix a pop-up bug that could be used to mask parts of the browser, such as the address bar; a cross-site scripting vulnerability; a problem with how the browsers handle cookies; and a flaw that could let attackers crash Firefox using its autocomplete feature. Firefox 2.0.0.4 can be downloaded from the Mozilla Web site for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; Firefox 1.5.0.12, meanwhile, is available from a different page. Current users can also update using the Check for Updates command in the help menu. Mozilla also reiterated that Thursday's patches would be Firefox 1.5's last and said that an update to Firefox 2.0.0.4 would be offered to its users "over the coming weeks." Although Firefox ended 2006 on an upbeat security note according to Symantec -- the anti-virus vendor tallied 40 patches in the last six months of the year, 26 percent fewer than the 54 released for rival browser Internet Explorer -- so far this year, Mozilla has addressed more than twice as many vulnerabilities as IE. In the first five months of 2007, 22 bugs in Firefox have been patched, nine of which were pegged as critical. Microsoft has fixed only eight in IE; seven were labeled critical.