Mozilla fixes 16 flaws with Firefox 3.5.4

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Mozilla today patched 16 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 11 of them critical, as it updated the open-source browser to version 3.5.4.The 11 critical Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities were located in a variety of components, including Web worker calls, the GIF color map parser, the string-to-number converter, a trio of third-party media libraries, ...

Sneaky Microsoft plugin puts Firefox users at risk

Friday, October 16th, 2009

An add-on that Microsoft silently slipped into Mozilla's Firefox last February leaves that browser open to attack, Microsoft's security engineers acknowledged earlier this week. One of the 13 security bulletins Microsoft released Tuesday affects not only Internet Explorer (IE), but also Firefox, thanks to a Microsoft-made plug-in pushed to Firefox users ...

Mozilla Plugin Check

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web ...

Mozilla Tests More Secure Firefox

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Mozilla on Wednesday posted preview builds of its Firefox browser with security enhancements designed to mitigate the risk of certain Web attacks. In a blog post, Brandon Sterne, security program manager for Mozilla, asks security researchers and server administrators to help test the changes by downloading a build appropriate for their ...

Firefox 3.5.3 Released!

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Firefox 3.5.3 fixes the following security issues: Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14) Help > Check for Updates or download here: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox