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If browsers were baseball, Mozilla's Firefox would be the Boston Red Sox. For years, Mozilla (and Netscape before it) has been the underdog that success has eluded. But looking at Firefox now, a little over a week since it bowed in final form, the word that comes to mind is believe. Firefox 1.0 offers everything most people need to browse the Web. (Click on image to expand.) Firefox 1.0 is the first Web browser since October, 1997, that deserves serious consideration by the entire world of desktop computer users. On October 1, 1997, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4.0, which was...

Firefox is one very hot browser, pardon the pun, and your computer will be safer if you switch to this free software that's heating up the charts. There's been a seismic shift during November, with Firefox emerging as the first credible competitive threat in a decade to Microsoft's aging Internet Explorer browser for Windows.

Anyone else here using the Firefox browser and, if so, what are your impressions of it?

The Firefox "Gold Version" 1.0 release is due out tomorrow.

Blake Ross is lounging at his parents' Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to "take back the Web" from Microsoft (MSFT).You might think the shy 19-year-old is outmatched. Think again. Ross, a software prodigy who interned at Netscape at age 14, is the lead architect behind Mozilla's Firefox -- a revolutionary new browser that's catching on the way Mosaic did in 1993. In beta for the past four months, Firefox version 1.0 is set to be released in November. With that, Ross will issue the...

A sample program hit the Internet on Wednesday, showing by example how malicious coders could compromise Windows computers by using a flaw in the handling of a widespread graphics format by Microsoft's software. Security professionals expect the release of the program to herald a new round of attacks by viruses and Trojan horses incorporating the code to circumvent security on Windows computers that have not been updated. The flaw, in the way Microsoft's software processes JPEG graphics, could allow a program to take control of a victim's computer when the user opens a JPEG file. "Within days, you'll likely see...

Google is spending some of the cash it raised from its IPO on headhunting staff to build a web browser. Staff have already been poached from Microsoft and Sun.Joshua Bloch, a senior Java developer at Sun, and four people from Microsoft's IE team have all joined the firm in the last few weeks, according to the New York Post. One of the four, Adam Bosworth, was also a lead developer in the development of Access. Joe Beda, a developer working on the user interface for Microsoft's Longhorn, has also joined Google. His blog refers to the NY Post story,...

Home | FAQ | Contact | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe from Alerts Search US-CERT > Advanced Search National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Alert SA04-261A Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla products Original release date: September 17, 2004 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Mozilla Suite (Mozilla web browser, Mozilla Mail)Firefox web browserThunderbird email client Overview By taking advantage of one or more vulnerabilities in Mozilla products, an attacker may be able to take control of your computer. Solution Upgrade to the latest version Mozilla has released updated versions of the affected products. You can download the latest versions: MozillaFirefoxThunderbird...

I’m not a Microsoft-basher; I use their products productively virtually every day of my life. Excel is my workhorse, Word my constant companion for nearly a decade, PowerPoint my standard for presentations, Visio Professional a powerful tool in my arsenal, and I rely on Outlook to keep track of notes, emails, contacts, tasks, and my calendar. I have also been using Internet Explorer since about 1996, when it came pre-loaded on a computer I bought. I found it to be adequate, and certainly seemed to be on the cutting edge (anybody remember “push technology”?). But increasingly over time it came...

Description: Paul has reported some vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, allowing malicious people to bypass security restrictions and potentially compromise a vulnerable system. 1) It is possible to redirect a function to another function with the same name, which allows a malicious website to access the function without the normal security restrictions. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary script code in the context of another website. This could potentially allow execution of arbitrary code in other security zones too. 2) Malicious sites can trick users into performing actions like drag'n'drop or click on a resource without their knowledge. An example has...

As if to prove the point that security is like the Dutch boy at the dike, Microsoft on Friday released a stop-gap fix for one of several vulnerabilities that have plagued its Internet Explorer just as a security firm warned that virtually every browser -- not just IE -- can be spoofed by hackers. The update, which Microsoft tagged as “Critical,” isn't a patch per se, but rather an change to Windows that disables the ADODB.Stream object within the operating system's Data Access Components (DAC). Last week, an innovative attack launched by a Russian hacker group from previously-infected Microsoft Internet...

US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed. A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites." CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScriptMalicious code, dubbed variously as "Scob"...

Over the last several days I've been having technical problems with FR and I'm curious if anyone else has been having similar problems. What has been happening is that on some threads and for a while there when view new posts at the root level of the forums the page would load to a certain extent and then stop only reload. When viewing the list of new posts it would vary from moment to moment what I would see as people would post. But invariably I would only be able to see so far down the page or hardly any...

<p>Check this out: Yesterday Europe's antitrust czar, Mario Monti, ordered Microsoft to offer a version of its Windows operating system without the currently included Windows Media Player, which allows computers to play music, movies and the like. Oh, the commission also fined Microsoft $612 million for "bundling" Media Player into Windows. But that's not the weird part.</p>

After reading several browser discussions on Free Republic over the past several months, I took the bait. I downloaded Mozilla and began using it. It's the old Netscape wine in new Mozilla wineskin, so I was familiar with the look and feel. I set www.freerepublic.com as my home page. For some reason, though, my Mozilla browser does nto open Free Republic. Not as a home page, not at all. Seems to open every other site I try but not this one. Any of you Mozilla advocates who can explain this win a pat on the back, the hearty handshake and...

Stolen from SlashDot... An anonymous reader writes: "A couple of interesting releases by mozilla.org. First of all Mozilla 1.5 was released. This is supposed to be the last version of the old Mozilla suite. Mozilla Firebird 0.7, the stand-alone browser by mozilla.org was also released today. It includes many new features, e.g. Web Panels. For more information see the newly designed product page for Firebird. A third release is the stand-alone version of the Mozilla mail-program Thunderbird , which has now reached version 0.3. The Mozilla Foundation also launched new end user services, like CD Sales and Telephone Support. As...

Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a flame. Gripes have mounted recently over support in IE 6 for Cascading Style Sheets, (CSS), a Web standard increasingly important to design professionals. Web developers and makers of Web authoring tools say the software giant has allowed CSS bugs to linger for years, undermining technology that promises to significantly cut corporate Web site design costs. Seeking to goad Microsoft into action, digital document giant Adobe Systems last week unveiled a deal to bolster...

For those of you who are interested in such things, the Mozilla Group has announced the release of Mozilla Version 1.4. This is a major stable release and should have all the latest bells and whistles included. The following is a brief feature list: Mozilla on Windows now has support for NTLM authentication. This enables Mozilla to talk to MS web and proxy servers that are configured to use "windows integrated security". Mozilla's bookmarks have been overhauled. Bookmarks now include a root level folder, the ability to have two differently named bookmarks pointing at the same location, site icons in...

Excerpt from e-mail I received today. Check the link -- it did in fact crash IE when I tried it. Dunno how well-known this is. I'm writing this to you with my Mozilla browser, because IE justcrashed on the exploit of the bug at<http://vibrantlogic.com/new.html> whose entire page source is thesefive lines:       <html>      <form>      <input type crash>      </form>      </html> Details follow. -~^~-"Description:A vulnerability identified in a library included in Windows XP andInternet Explorer version 4.0 and newer can be exploited to cause aDoS (Denial of Service) on certain applications. The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference bug...

Surfers are being offered a check on the security of their browser with a free security tool. The Browser Security Test, from Belgian security outfit ScanIT, tests for system vulnerability against a range of 22 simulated attacks. Browser insecurity is, of course, a significant source of Net security problems. ScanIT says its test scores by automating the identification and patching process, saving users valuable time. When the test is finished users' get a report explaining the discovered vulnerabilities, their impact and how to eliminate them. Statistics gathered by ScanIT showed 42 per cent of users who checked their online security...