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USN-920-1: Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Referenced CVEs: 

CVE-2010-0174, CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177, CVE-2010-0178, CVE-2010-0179

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-920-1 April 09, 2010
firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities
CVE-2010-0174, [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

USN-921-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Referenced CVEs: 

CVE-2010-0173, CVE-2010-0174, CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177, CVE-2010-0178, CVE-2010-0179, CVE-2010-0181, CVE-2010-0182

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-921-1 April 09, [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Mozilla Engineer Writes Steve Ballmer; Promptly Takes Foot Out Of Mouth

Mozilla platform engineer Rob Sayre has probably had better ideas.
Hoping Microsoft might allow Firefox on their new Windows Phone 7 Series, Sayre wrote an open letter this morning to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “Hola, amigo. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya,” is how it starts.
He then proceeds to make [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Opera, Safari Beat Chrome On Google’s Own JavaScript Conformance Test

Back in June, Google launched Sputnik, a suite of tools that runs over 5,000 tests to check a web browser’s JavaScript conformance. Last week, they made the tool a lot easier for anyone to use, with a version that works in the web browser. The results are interesting.
Notably, both the Opera and Safari web browsers [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Chrome Is Rapidly Approaching Firefox In Extension Numbers

It was only December when Google officially launched extensions for its Chrome browser. Almost immediately, there were 500 extensions in the gallery as many developers had been working on them for a while. Today, Google is saying that number is now past 3,000. And that’s significant because it’s already pretty close to the browser known [...]

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Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Netbook OS Maker Jolicloud Switches From Mozilla Prism To Chrome For Web Apps

Jolicloud, the French startup founded by well-known European entrepreneur Tariq Krim that produces a custom Linux-based operating system for netbooks, has just announced on its blog that it will be releasing a solid beta version of the OS later this month.
In a fairly surprising move, the company also announced that it is ditching Mozilla Prism [...]

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Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari. Puts It On Death Watch For Firefox And IE.

While digging through the Chromium forums back in November looking for clues about the then-unreleased Chrome for Mac beta, we stumbled on an interesting bit of information: Google was moving away from supporting Gears going forward. While this move was obvious for some given Google’s heavy investment in HTML5, Google hadn’t talked much about what [...]

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Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

USN-896-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

Referenced CVEs: 

CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160, CVE-2010-0162

Description: 

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-896-1 February 17, 2010
firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160,
CVE-2010-0162
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A security [...]

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Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

USN-895-1: Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities

Referenced CVEs: 

CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160, CVE-2010-0162

Description: 

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-895-1 February 17, 2010
firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160,
CVE-2010-0162
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A security [...]

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Thu, February 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

20 Percent Of TechCrunch Readers Are Already Browsing With Chrome

Google’s Chrome browser is quickly gaining market share, with one estimate putting it at about 5 percent of total usage, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is seeing a drop in overall share. But among TechCrunch readers Chrome is already beating every browser except for Firefox.
A look at our Google Analytics numbers for the past 30 [...]

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Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments