APRIL 30, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The open-source Mozilla project this week plans to release an update to its Firefox browser that will fix a publicly disclosed security issue in the software. News of the update came as developers also confirmed that they were dropping a highly anticipated bookmarking feature, called Places, from the next major Firefox release, due later this year.
Mozilla Corp. developers have yanked one of the most prominent features from the next version of their Firefox browser after deciding that it can’t be finished in time.
The feature, dubbed “Places,” was to be a rewrite of Firefox’s bookmarking system, and would have allowed users to search through both bookmarks and the browsing history log to locate sites. Places relies on SQLite, an open-source database engine, to store bookmarks and the history data.
A zero-day vulnerability in a fully-patched and most-current version of Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox could be exploited to crash the browser at the least, and at the worst, possibly introduce malicious code, a security company warned Tuesday.
The bug, which first appeared on Mozilla’s Bugzilla listing a week ago on April 18, could be used by an attacker to crash Firefox by feeding it malformed JavaScript code.
hunderbird 1.5.0.2 provides stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safer email experience for our users. We recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest version.
Here’s what’s new in Thunderbird 1.5.0.2:
* Improvements to product stability.
* Several security fixes.
* 1.5.0.2 does not include Universal Binary support for Mac OS X. We hope to have this ready for 1.5.0.3.
Mozilla Corp. late Thursday updated its Firefox browser to patch a mega-batch of 24 vulnerabilities, the bulk of them tagged “critical.”
APRIL 14, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Internet Explorer users are not the only people patching browsers this week. Mozilla Corp. yesterday released a new version of its Firefox browser that adds native support for Apple Computer Inc.’s Mac OS X running on Intel Corp.’s processors, and contains a number of important security fixes for all Firefox users.
Firefox has broken the 10 percent market share barrier, a Web analytics company said this week, by jumping a quarter percentage point from February to March.
The open-source browser now owns 10.05 of the global usage market, Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based NetApplications said in its March data. February’s Firefox share was 9.75 percent.
Mozilla’s Firefox browser is one of the safer browser arounds. Some of the best security features of Firefox are only available as extensions. Check out the official Firefox Add-ons page for a round up of privacy and security extensions that you can use.
