The Final Firefox 2

19 Dec

Posted by fx in Internet (Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Web browser)

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown

The last Firefox 2 release is now live and Mozilla (as well as I) are advising to simply move to Firefox 3. Apparantly some 20% of their users are using the older version though, and when they do go to update will be prompted with a warning:
Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained [...]

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Firefox 2 Users! Its Time To Upgrade!

08 Dec

Posted by fx in computers, technology (Firefox, Firefox 2.0.0.19, Google, Mozilla Firefox, Phishing)

Image by via CrunchBase

Firefox 2.0.0.19 – the last security fix which is coming out for the 2 series – removes the phishing website detection that used to be built in! This has been requested by Google (the phishing blacklist provider) as the browser uses an older version of the protocol used.
“Computerworld and others are [...]

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Firefox 3.0.4 Update Goes Live

13 Nov

Posted by fx in Newswire (Browsers, Firefox, Firefox 3, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3)

The latest incremental update to Firefox 3 has gone live, with few relevant changes but some important security fixes. The highlighted changes are –

Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Official releases for the Icelandic [...]

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Google Chrome

01 Sep

Posted by igor in Current Affairs, computers, open source, technology (Browser, Chrome, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Scorr McCloud)

In a rather odd way, Google seems to have announced their own open source browser. Although the announcement is not quite official, it was written about, in some detail, in a comic book by Scott McCloud. The comic also mentioned several Google developers, which is a somewhat convincing case that this is not just a [...]