Friday, May 30th, 2008
Microsoft on Friday said it is investigating reports of "a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser has been installed."An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted Web ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
On today’s Firefox 3 status meeting, the need for a second release candidate was confirmed and it has been tentatively targeted for early June.
RC2 will fix about a couple dozen bugs including some top crashers, some affecting performance and localization related. Most of the bugs already have patches waiting for ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Mozilla has identified 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0, three of them pegged "critical," but won't decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a second release candidate (RC2).
"We are making a go/no go decision early next week, as we are ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla's finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I forgot to tell you all about this actually. I found this about 8 months back and never discussed it for various reasons. Since I saw that Mozilla has fixed a lot of memory leaks inside Firefox 2/3, I guess it's safe to say I can talk about this now. ...
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