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Another IE 7 pop-up problem discovered

November 1st, 2006
by Krishna Mohan

Security researchers on Monday warned of a problem in Internet Explorer 7 that could allow malicious attackers to alter content in a legitimate Web site’s pop-up window.

The browser issue could affect users who visit a trusted site by opening a pop-up window in that site that contains malicious code. This is the second IE 7 problem that has been discovered since Microsoft released the browser two weeks ago. Last week, a security flaw was discovered in IE 7 that could spoof the address of a pop-up window.

The two IE 7 security holes, if used in conjunction with each other, can easily dupe all but the most security-minded users, said Thomas Kristensen, chief technology officer of security company Secunia, which discovered the problems.

Secunia has classed the latest problem a security vulnerability, while Microsoft states the situation arises from “by-design behavior” in the browsers.

Source : ZDNet

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Firefox clocks 2 million

October 30th, 2006
by Krishna Mohan

Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after Mozilla Firefox 2.0 to the public on 24th October, 2 million people downloaded it – that is 30 downloads a second. To compare this figure with Microsoft’s IE7 release of only half a million downloads in the first 24 hours, it becomes clear there is a active community that follows Mozilla and anticipates new versions.

Looking back on previous Firefox milestone releases:

  • Firefox 1.0: 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours.
  • Firefox 1.5: 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours
  • Firefox 2: 2 million (actually slightly more) people using Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours.

IE7 was released last Wednesday. In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release.
Looks like Firefox has beaten IE7.

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Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Final Released

October 25th, 2006
by Krishna Mohan

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Final

The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox. Despite not being featured on the Firefox homepage the files have all been uploaded to the Mozilla FTP site.

The Windows installer weighs in at 5568KB, and was uploaded at 0819GMT today. As well as this both Mac and Linux versions have been added.

This updated version is designated for release tomorrow, but avid Firefox users can get their hands on it now from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/

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