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Mozilla shows off $25 Firefox OS smartphone prototype
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-02-24 00:19
While Apple is focused on spreading premium-prices smartphones across the globe, browser maker Mozilla has its sights aimed squarely on the low-cost smartphone market and has announced a deal for a chipset which it said will pave the way for $25 smartphones.
Mozilla announced at Mobile World Congress that it is partnering with Shanghai-based fabless semiconductor company Spreadtrum to come up with reference designs of the low-cost Firefox OS-powered smartphones.
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Firefox 27 Delivers Better Security, Performance
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-02-05 06:37
Mozilla today released Firefox 27, giving users of the open-source browser new security features and improved performance.
There are 13 security advisories attached to the Firefox 27 release, four of them ranked as being critical. As is common in nearly all Firefox release updates, one of the critical updates is for a group of vulnerabilities that Mozilla labels "Miscellaneous memory safety hazards."
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Mozilla adopts plain-vanilla password sign-in for Firefox sync
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-02-03 07:20
Mozilla has begun testing a simpler new system for synchronizing Firefox's bookmarks, open tabs, Web site passwords, and other browser settings.
Until now, the not-for-profit organization had used a complicated mechanism in which you had to type a pairing code shown on one browser into another browser. Now it's begun a shift to begun a shift to a plain old username-password approach to Firefox sync, Mozilla said Saturday.
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Flaw in Thunderbird bypasses Firefox 'Torified' security and privacy defenses
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-01-27 01:13
Do you use the free email client Thunderbird? Do you also use Tor? If so, then there's been a security flaw awaiting a fix from Mozilla for over two years; now the bug has been publicly disclosed.Thunderbird security bug Mike Cardwell, a developer, IT consultant, sysadmin and security researcher in the UK, informed the Tor-talk mailing list about a security issue in the Thunderbird app.
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Mozilla Patches Firefox 26 With 14 Security Advisories
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-12-11 00:45
Mozilla is out today with its latest milestone Firefox release, this time providing security fixes as well as new functionality in the open-source Web browser.
The Firefox 26 release first entered beta in early November. From a security feature perspective, the big change that Firefox 26 introduces is the concept of "click-to-play" plug-ins. Prior to Firefox 26, plug-ins such as Java would just load inside the browser whenever required by a given Website, and without the need for any specific user interaction.
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