Mozilla Expands on Plugin Protection Plans

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Mozilla has expanded on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.In a comment in that same blog, in response to a question I asked, Mozilla's Director of Evangelism Christopher Blizzard added a few more points: ...

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FireMaster – Firefox Master Password Recovery Tool

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

FireMaster is the first ever built tool to recover the lost master password in Firefox. Master password is used by Firefox to protect the stored sign-on information for all visited websites. If the master password is forgotten, then there is no way to recover the master password and user will ...

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Firefox 3.5 Released

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. Some of the notable features are: Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> ...

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Shutting Down XSS with Content Security Policy

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

For several years, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks have plagued many of the web’s most popular sites and victimized their users. At Mozilla, we’ve been working for the last year on a new technology called Content Security Policy, designed to shut these attacks down. We wanted to give a bit of ...

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Firefox 3.0.11 Released

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Firefox 3.0.11 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.10: JavaScript chrome privilege escalation XUL scripts bypass content-policy checks Incorrect principal set for file: resources loaded via location bar Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element whose owner document is null Race condition while accessing the private data of a NPObject JS wrapper ...

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