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What’s New in Firefox 3:

The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features to deliver a faster, more secure and customizable Web browsing experience for all.

User Experience. The enhancements to Firefox 3 provide the best possible browsing experience on the Web. The new Firefox 3 smart location bar, affectionately known as the “Awesome Bar,” learns as people use it, adapting to user preferences and offering better fitting matches over time. The Firefox 3 Library archives browsing history, bookmarks, and tags, where they can be easily searched and organized. One-click bookmarking and tagging make it easy to remember, search and organize Web sites. The new full-page zoom displays any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.

Performance. Firefox 3 is built on top of the powerful new Gecko 1.9 platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product. Firefox 3 now uses less memory while it’s running, and its redesigned page rendering and layout engine means users see Web pages two to three times faster than Firefox 2.

Security. Firefox 3 raises the bar for security. The new malware and phishing protection helps protect from viruses, worms, trojans and spyware to keep people safe on the Web. Firefox 3’s one-click site ID information allows users to verify that a site is what it claims to be. Mozilla’s open source process leverages the experience of thousands of security experts around the globe.

Customization. Everyone uses the Web differently, and Firefox 3 lets users customize their browser with more than 5,000 add-ons.

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.

It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It’s an easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup …

This program is freeware and works on Windows 98/ME/ NT/2000/ XP/2003/Vista.

MozBackup 1.4.8 Beta changes:
- Fix: FS#120 - Check Czech localization
- Fix: FS#123 - language file hasn’t applied correctry
- Fix: FS#141 - Spelling error on component selection screen.

Download Mozbackup 1.4.8 beta

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 was released today with a single critical bug fix. It is highly recommended that you update if you use Firefox.

Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.14:

• MFSA 2008-20 Crash in JavaScript garbage collector

Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 was released today with a number of critical bug fixes. It is highly recommended that you update if you use Firefox.

Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.13:

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• MFSA 2008-19 XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
• MFSA 2008-18 Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect
• MFSA 2008-17 Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
• MFSA 2008-16 HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
• MFSA 2008-15 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
• MFSA 2008-14 JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution

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Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 was released today with a number of critical bug fixes. It is highly recommended that you update if you use Firefox.Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.12

• MFSA 2008-11 Web forgery overwrite with div overlay
• MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
• MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
• MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering
• MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing
• MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI
• MFSA 2008-04 Stored password corruption
• MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution
• MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities
• MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12)

Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12

Prior to the release of Firefox 2.0.0.10 a minor security issue was discovered in the drawImage method in the Canvas API. This particular method takes an image (in the form of an IMG DOM Element), extracts the image data, and puts it into the Canvas at the desired points. If you’re interested in seeing what this method does (and aren’t running 2.0.0.10) then visit the Mozilla developer demo. The issue was that if the image was corrupted in some way, drawImage would still try to read data from it and display random bits of memory instead (oops).

This was fixed and two attachments were uploaded resolving this bug. However, that’s where the issue came in. When it came time to commit the changes, only the first patch landed (by mistake) which caused drawImage to become all wonky. Coupled by the fact that there wasn’t an immediate regression test in place to notice the obvious error. (That being said, we’re getting much better - going from very few automated tests about a year ago, to tens of thousands now.)

Nov. 26: Firefox 2.0.0.10 is released, Canvas.drawImage method is not working

Canvas users (both web applications and Firefox extensions) start to notice the following error pop up:

uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIDOMCanvasRenderingContext2D.drawImage]” nsresult: “0×80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)” location: “JS frame :: drawImage.html :: anonymous :: line 12″ data: no]

The obvious bug is spotted and the patch is landed. The question then became: How serious is this? In a nutshell: Very serious. A number of critical applications were using this functionality to draw parts of their UIs and having this fail made them unusable. Thus, the new question was: How fast can we get it out? The answer:

Nov.

As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.11 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com.

We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 2.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.

For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 2.0.0.11 Release Notes.

If you are still running Firefox 1.5.0.x, you are highly encouraged to upgrade to the Firefox 2 series as Mozilla ceased supporting Firefox 1.5.0.x in May 2007. Simply choose “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu to begin the upgrade process.

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Apparently someone is listening to my cry, and those of the chained masses with Microsoft Windows Mobile phones. Firefox has confirmed it is working on first a Linux version, followed by Windows Mobile 6 version. No timeframe has been given.

Christian Serjersen of Mozilla tells us through his blog that a Symbian version will come down the line as well. He lays out the goals of the program as:

1. provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
2. a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
3. grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
4. provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
5. do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile benefit each other

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As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.10 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com.

We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 2.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu starting now.

For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 2.0.0.10 Release Notes.

If you are still running Firefox 1.5.0.x, you are highly encouraged to upgrade to the Firefox 2 series as Mozilla ceased supporting Firefox 1.5.0.x in May 2007. Simply choose “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu to begin the upgrade process.

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The first real, official, and honest to-goodness beta release of Firefox 3 is out. You know, not like that little false alarm pre-beta version we told you about a few weeks ago.

Still, the main differences between this beta and that pre-release copy are that the Firefox team has spent a few more weeks hammering out bugs. The feature set is pretty much what we knew it would be.

• Updates to the Gecko rendering engine which should improve stability.
• New Places feature makes it easier to find the sites you’ve visited most recently, most often, or starred for coming back to later.
• New security features alert you when you’re visiting insecure web sites and let you auto-scan downloads with your antivirus software

We’re still not quite ready to replace Firefox 2 with an admittedly still buggy beta. But it’s pretty exciting to see where Mozilla is going with its flagship web browser.

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