Ali Alvi's WebLog : Firefox

IE team congratulates Mozilla on shipping Firefox 2 (FF2)

alialvi — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:12:00 GMT

Mozilla released FireFox 2.0 today and it is available for download from their website. I haven't used Firefox much to know what has changed from 1.5 but they do talk about improved tabbed browsing, session restore, RSS and Live Titles as some of the key things in 2.0. It also has a spell checker built in and provides search suggestions. Also built in is phishing protection which warns the user about suspected forgery.

IE team sent mozilla a cake to congratulate them on shipping Firefox 2. Hope they enjoyed it! It has been a good couple of days for the browsing world.

Cheers

Ali

Security Vulnerability in FireFox

alialvi — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:03:00 GMT

I just came across this Phishing Vulnerability in Firefox wherein you can spoof the source URL in the download dialog box. Just another one of the many reasons to believe that without security, no amount of progress can be made. We need to make browsers secure before they can do any fancy UI dance !

"Secunia rated the flaw "less critical" and has confirmed the vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.3 for Linux, Mozilla 1.7.5 for Windows, and Mozilla Firefox 1.0. It added that "other versions may also be affected."

it was only a matter of time before mozilla was going to attract hackers.