A new vulnerability was discovered on Firefox 3.5 yesterday (2009-07-14) by Secunia.

The “highly critical” vulnerability, currently unpatched, can be  be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

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Mozilla’s Web browsers now command 8.69 percent of the global browser market, according to a recent survey by Dutch analytics company OneStat.com.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the market, with a hefty 86.63 percent of the market, with Apple’s Safari browser trailing in third place with 1.26 percent of the market. Opera alone commands about 1.03 percent, and Netscape has about 1.08 percent.

Other studies have confirmed OneStat’s findings. In a recent report, Janco Associates found that Firefox is now the browser of choice for 10 percent of business users, with IE at 83.07 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest version of Mozilla’s popular open-source browser enjoyed one of the most successful launches in software history, with a record-setting 8.2 million downloads the first day it was available. With the ability to drastically expand the browser’s functions using plug-in extensions and Greasemonkey scripts, many of Firefox 3’s built-in features are overlooked. Here are eight handy things you can do with Firefox, ranging from tiny tweaks to hugely powerful capabilities, all with nary an extension to install.

1. Duplicate tabs with drag-and-drop.
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A study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM says more than 600 million Internet browsers were at risk this year.

“Insecure Web browsers are of course a critical security problem,” the report noted. “But vulnerable plug-ins that are accessible (and exploitable) through the Web browser extend the ‘insecurity iceberg’ and form the part hidden below the water surface.” Read the rest of this entry »

We all know that opening multiple tabs in your browser takes up a lot of computer memory :???: .

The team behind Firefox 3 is working hard to improve the memory usage of the upcoming Firefox. The graph above shows that they are already making that improvement :lol: although it really makes IE7 looks bad. :twisted:

Full report here.

Mozilla has launched Firefox Beta 3 :lol: , containing approximately 1300 individual changes from the previous beta.

The download is around 7MB and Firefox 3 Beta 3 is available in more than 30 languages for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. :grin:

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