Keeping Browsers Safer: Adobe Puts Flash for Firefox in a Sandbox
siliconfilter.com
Love it or hate it, but Adobe's Flash plugin is likely one of the world's most widely distributed pieces of software. Give it's popularity, it doesn't come as a surprise that Flash is also popular with hackers, who do their best to exploit flaws in it. Chrome and Internet Explorer...
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Mozilla Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Commercial Spyware Company For Using Firefox Trademark And Code To Trick Users
www.techdirt.com
Techdirt has written several times about the increasing tendency for governments around the world to turn to malware as a way of spying on people, without really thinking through the risks. One company that is starting to crop up more and more in this context is Gamma International, thanks...
Mozilla Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Commercial Spyware Company For Using Firefox Trademark And Code To Trick Users
What's a known source of malware doing in an iOS app? Ars investigates
arstechnica.com
A warning delivered by the Google Safe Browsing service. The link reported as malicious was embedded in an game available in Apple's iOS App Store. At first blush, it looked serious: a Web link to a known source of malware buried deep inside a highly rated app that has...
Mozilla shows off 'Epic Citadel' web version ported with Unreal Engine 3 (video)
www.engadget.com
Mozilla wants to quell any doubt that its Unreal Engine 3 Firefox port works well, so it's just released a demo browser version of Epic Citadel so you can see for yourself. The game was ported to Javascript using the technology, and will run in HTML5 on most browsers...
Mozilla launches Firefox OS 3.0 Simulator with push to device, rotation simulation, geolocation API, and more
thenextweb.com
Mozilla on Thursday announced the release of Firefox OS Simulator 3.0, polishing all the features in the preview release and adding a few more. You can download version 3.0 now for Windows, Mac, and Linux from Mozilla Add-Ons. The simulator installs as an extension in Firefox, so you’ll need Mozilla’s...
Mozilla launches Firefox OS 3.0 Simulator with push to device, rotation simulation, geolocation API, and more
Internet Explorer 10 share doubles again on the back of Windows 7
arstechnica.com
Net Market Share After Microsoft released Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 in late February, the market share of the previously Windows 8-specific browser almost doubled. That strong growth has continued, with the browser share doubling again in April. Net Market Share Net Market Share The overall split of...
Mozilla to spyware company: Stop using us as bait!
venturebeat.com
Mozilla is pissed. The company sent a cease and desist letter to the makers of government spying software FinFisher, saying it is using Firefox’s branding to “lie and mislead as one of its methods for avoiding detection.” Mozilla wrote a blog post about the issue yesterday, saying Gamma International,...
DEATH OF THE COOKIE: How The Web's All-Seeing Tracking Device Could Meet Its End
www.businessinsider.com
Cookies -- the small pieces of code that websites drop onto your internet browser in order to track your activity, usually for advertisers -- have gotten a bad rap recently. Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla (which makes the Firefox browser) now all plan to launch browsers with default settings rigged to...
IE10 doubles market share thanks to Windows 7 debut, pushing IE9 below 20% as Firefox gains and Chrome loses
thenextweb.com
The browser war has begun a new quarter. April saw the first full month of IE10 availability on Windows 7, the release of Firefox 20, and the first full month of Chrome 26 availability. The latest market share numbers from Net Applications show only Firefox and Safari gaining last month....
IE10 doubles market share thanks to Windows 7 debut, pushing IE9 below 20% as Firefox gains and Chrome loses
Ring, ring! Skype video calls arrive in the browser.... with Outlook.com
gigaom.com
People pining for Skype video calls directly in the browser have something to look forward to today, provided they use Outlook.com for their email. On Tuesday, Skype announced a preview of web support for its audio, video and instant messaging services in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome. The service is...
Skype preview starts rolling out to Outlook.com users
www.pcworld.com
The productivity convergence has begun. Microsoft began rolling out Skype functionality to Outlook.com late Monday after promising the functionality to Outlook users nearly a year ago. A preview version of Skype for Outlook.com is currently available to a select group of users in the United Kingdom. The company plans...
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