More than half of all Firefox users ran an unsafe version of Adobe's Flash Player, according to statistics collected last week as users installed the latest release of the popular open-source browser.
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The Mozilla Project has updated its roadmap for the coming versions of Firefox. The next big release, Firefox 4.0 with Geko1.9.4 underneath, is scheduled for the end of 2010.
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Mozilla Complains About Microsoft’s Continued Discrimination Against Rival Web Browsers
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Mozilla to EC: Microsoft Getting Off Too Easy
As Microsoft and the European Commission talk settlement, Mozilla says it wants more detailed promises from the software titan.
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Mozilla patches 'critical' Firefox flaws
As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.13 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads
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Firefox 4.0 Mockups
The pace at which Mozilla works can seem insane. It was less than a month ago when the the company released Firefox 3.5. Only three weeks later, Firefox posted screenshots of Firefox 3.7, which includes a change to the Tools bar and an Embracing Glass design.
But the ambition doesn’t end there. The Firefox team is looking even farther in the future: all the way to Firefox 4.0.
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Mozilla updates Thunderbird 3, Firefox 3.x
Mozilla is updating its Firefox 3.x browser to version 3.0.12 for five critical security vulnerabilities. All of the issues have already been addressed in the latest Firefox 3.5.1 update which came out last week.
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Mozilla confirms new crash bug in Firefox 3.5.1 not exploitable
Mozilla has confirmed a crash bug in the latest Firefox 3.5.1 related to how its JavaScript handle certain long Unicode strings that could lead to a crash on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
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Buffer overflow in Firefox 3.5.1 not exploitable
In the last few days, there have been several reports (including one via SANS) of a bug in Firefox related to handling of certain very long Unicode strings. While these strings can result in crashes of some versions of Firefox, the reports by press and various security agencies have incorrectly indicated that this is an exploitable bug.
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Dear Firefox, You Have Non-Windows Users Too
A medium-large bit of news this week is a potentially serious exploit in the shiny new freshly-released Firefox 3.5, which was released, discovered, and fixed nearly all at the same time. Another open source security success story! Except for one thing-- no one bothered to report if this dastardly flaw affects Linux.
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Mozilla closes security hole with Firefox 3.5.1
Mozilla updated Firefox to version 3.5.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Thursday, fixing a security problem, improving stability, and speeding launch time on some Windows systems, according to the release notes.
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Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.5 for Security, Startup
Mozilla's Firefox 3.5.1 browser is now out with fixes for one critical zero-day vulnerability that first became public earlier this week.
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US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox
US State Department workers have begged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to let them use Firefox.
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one week of firefox 3.5
Ken Kovash, over at the Mozilla Blog of Metrics, has a nice rundown on week one of Firefox 3.5. I'd just like to second Ken's comment that this is all quite extraordinary.
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Open Letter to Mozilla Regarding Their Use of HTML5 Video
We're on the verge of a serious evolution on the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology that is a massive resource hog. The answer is the HTML5 video tag
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