News.com has an article on how “the advent of Firefox and other alternatives to Internet Explorer means cybercops have to learn new tricks for their investigations“: Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Firefox & Thunderbird'
Use Firefox And Baffle The Cops
September 2nd, 2005 · 4 Comments · Crime, Firefox & Thunderbird, Internet, Open Source
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Differences Between Internet Explorer & Mozilla
July 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Firefox & Thunderbird, Microsoft
IBM Developerworks has an interesting article on the differences between IE and Mozilla, and things you should take note of when porting/creating web apps: Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. You’ll first learn [...]
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Firefox 1.0.4 Released
May 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird, News, Security
A new release of firefox, consisting of security fixes: MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides MFSA 2005-43 “Wrapped” javascript: urls bypass security checks MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL Get it or get 0wned!
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Firefox 1.0.1 Out
February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird, News, Security
A new version of firefox has been released. Version 1.0.1 has several security fixes, including a fix for spoofing domain names with unicode. For more information check out the release notes.
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Firefox downloaded 25 million times!
February 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone. Thank you. Thank you for helping us take this product from 25 to 25 million, from our little corner of the world to yours, from the technically elite to Karen and Rimone. With a minimal set [...]
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Thunderbird 2.0 Roadmap
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Looks like Mozilla has released the roadmap for Thunderbird 2.0. An excerpt: 1.1 Goals Inline spell checking (spell as you type) Improved spell check engine. Update our version of myspell to the current version used by Open Office.org Deleting attachments from e-mail Auto Save As Draft Phishing Detector: Thunderbird will attempt to detect email scams, [...]
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Dutch firefox ad campaign
January 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Some people in Holland are collecting money for a firefox ad in the Dutch newspaper, “De Telegraaf” to heighten firefox awareness. The idea of course is inspired by the succesfull ad placed in the New York Times. The cost of the Ad is about 53.000 euros for a single page colour advertisement and 36.000 euros [...]
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Put Firefox on speed
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Seems that the fellows at forevergeek.com have written a little tutorial to make Firefox faster. It basically comes down to setting it to pre-emptively cache more data while you’re surfing: 1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make [...]
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