The World’s most popular browser Firefox 3.6 is under attack.First zero day exploit hits Firefox 3.6.Russian security firm Intevydis has made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Firefox 3.6 available to its customers. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of a PC.Now this security exploit is applicable for Windows XP(SP3) and Windows Vista.It isn’t mean that, it won’t applicable for Other Operating Systems.The developer says It was an interesting challenge to find the flaw – a buffer overflow – and to exploit it. (more…)
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Firefox 3.6 is Under Attack
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Firefox 3.6 crossed 50 Million Downloads
Friday, February 12th, 2010The World’s most popular browser Firefox 3.6 crossed 50 million Downloads in just 21 days.All of you know that Firefox 3.6 released on January 21, 2010.And today it completed 50 million downloads.And all versions of Firefox downloaded 1.3 billion times approximately.No other browser in the world has this record. (more…)
Firefox Dropped by Mozilla for Support to Mac OS X 10.4
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Mozilla’s open source Firefox Web browser is used today by over 6 million Apple Mac users. To date, Mozilla has supported Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 for both Firefox 3.5 and for the recently released Firefox 3.6, though not all three Mac OS versions are likely to be supported under Firefox’s next major release.
Automatically Reload Web Pages Setup in Firefox
Monday, February 8th, 2010hi friends, Firefox is a great browser and not just because of the looks but also for the features we get with it in the form of useful Add-ons. I normally need to check out my Stock Markets Portfolio every few minutes and see if there is a growth or a loss in the market and the stocks i have purchased.
How to Block Ads in Your Mail using Firefox
Friday, February 5th, 2010Hi friends.All of you have mail accounts.We all check our mails daily, people like me often 5 to 10 times a day.Basically, mail providers like Gmail,Yahoo and Hotmail will serve their ads in mail accounts for to improve their revenue.But, they will irritate us, by shrinking the effective space to read emails.See the below picture.How it occupies the space for ads. (more…)
Firefox 3.6’s new HTML5 Offline Image Editor, Live Preview
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Till now all of you used Online image editors.Do you think of an Offline Image Editor that runs in a browser and can do everything like cropping,resizing,rotating and black and white operations before uploading into any of image hosting server? Mozilla created a web application with the help of the latest technology HTML 5 that work with Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and twitpic a free twitter image hosting service.You can check the live demo of HTML 5 Offline Image Editor. (more…)
