Firefox Mobile 4 beta 2 available for Android and Maemo
The Mozilla Foundation has released the second beta of its mobile browser (Firefox Mobile 4 aka "Fennec") for Maemo and Android (destined to become MeeGo but is on two Nokia smartphones). This version improves the memory footprint, the visual rendering of text and 25% the score of the browser at SunSpider test.
Firefox – Rainbow, a new extension of Mozilla Labs
If the display of multimedia content on the Internet has made considerable progress since the advent of HTML5, can not be said for the audio and video on the Web.
This was the observation that motivated the development of a new extension for Firefox by a team of Mozilla Labs, the R & D laboratory Mozilla responsible for initiating several innovative projects which are then integrated into the browser
Mozilla fixed in 48 hours the exploit in Firefox 3.5 and 3.6
It only took 48 hours for the Mozilla Foundation released a security patch following the discovery of a flaw in its browser, which allowed a takeover of the attacked machine.
The flaw was exploited from the site of the Nobel Peace Price site, which itself had been mysteriously hacked.
Firefox was the only browser that is visibly affected by this attack (see above).
Today, the Foundation has released two patches, one for each version of Firefox (3.5 and 3.6) affected by the exploit.
Everything is back to normal.
Hats off to a reaction rate too fast?
Firefox 4 RC and final version not before 2011
The Mozilla Foundation, has readjusted its schedule for Firefox 4 and pushes back the launch of its Release Candidate and the final version, previously announced for next month, to "the early 2011".
Firefox 4, already very late, is now in its sixth beta.
The seventh sense to include all new features and provide a basis for extension developers was scheduled for Sept. 17 before being postponed, too, about the month of November.
This change was announced by the project director Mike Beltzner declared that: "finalize this work [Firefox 4] takes longer than anticipated initial estimates, by dint of driving the regressions, and sources of instability."
The Wiki beta 4 of Firefox has been updated to present the new schedule.
We learn that not only beta 7 released with more than a month and a half late, but there will still be 3 more this year betas, 8, 9 and 10 (until 10 December).
Source :Firefox's mailing list
A 12 years old hacker found a critical flaw in Firefox
In the series' value does not expect the number of years "after the young girl of 16 who is developing a site for the British government, this is the hacker of 12 years is a critical flaw in Firefox.
And pocketing $ 3,000 in the passage provided by the Mozilla Foundation for any contributor who help significantly to improve the security of its browser.
Alex Miller is a young boy from San Jose (Calif.) computer enthusiast. Passionate but not insensitive to the gains.
When Mozilla has decided to multiply by six the reward for the discovery of a significant vulnerability, the young prodigy has made up his mind to win the award.
His initial analysis led him to find some flaws, minor, insufficient to receive the jackpot.
Stubborn, Alex Miller continues his research for 10 days at an hour and a half per day, until he uncovers a flaw in the use of application memory.
Tracking down bugs is not easy. Very technical, it concerns only a small community of developers, says essentially Brandon Sterne, head of security at Mozilla, about Alex Miller.
An annoying boy ?
Source : Mercury News
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