I feel a bit more secure with Firefox knowing the development team is nimble enough to apply fixes to vulnerabilities within days after being exposed. I’m not sure about the other browsers. To me, that’s what sets Firefox apart from the others.
Firefox just released version 2.0.0.8 which fixes eight vulnerabilities. Two of them are critical, four moderate and two with low impact. One was causing system crashes resulting in memory corruption. The other is scripting with the XPCNativeWraper allowing the attacker to have the same privilege as the user.
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 is spiffy looking. I love the new visual theme. This email client now has tagging allowing users to classify email based on importance and or category. The new search feature starts displaying results as you type. I have Gmail and a personal email account using IMAP running on Thunderbird 2. The response [...]
If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you may noticed an upgrade recently or if you haven’t yet, you will be getting a notice fairly soon. Firefox just recently upgraded their browser to version 2.0.0.2 to correct several security bugs. Here’s the release notes for the latest version. One thing I really appreciate about the [...]
I just searched Google and was amazed by the number of browsers available for Linux. There are at least a couple of dozen browsers actively in development. The most popular browsers are Mozilla’s Firefox, Konqueror, Galeon and Opera. Firefox and Opera have Windows versions available for download. They are free. Gratis!