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Mozilla Fixes 10 Security Flaws
News The latest releases of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, along with the Thunderbird email software, fix 10 security issues, including three critical vulnerabilities, according to the Mozilla Foundation, which develops the software.
[September 16, 2004, 10:35]
Mozilla Patches Firefox Flaw
News The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch for a major security flaw in its Firefox browser on Wednesday and advised people to update their software. The Mozilla Foundation released version 1.02 of Firefox on Wednesday to fix the problem and asked that...
[March 24, 2005, 8:30]
Firefox Security Claims Rubbished
News Even with increased popularity, the Firefox Web browser won't face as many security problems as Internet Explorer, according to the president of the Mozilla Foundation. Still, Firefox, developed by the Mozilla Foundation, won't harbour nearly as...
[March 23, 2005, 11:00]
Mozilla Seeks Firefox's Success For Thunderbird
News In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation set up a corporation to run elements of the Firefox web-browser operation. Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox web browser's success with Thunderbird, its open-source email software.
[September 18, 2007, 8:34]
Firefox Extension Contest Finalists Revealed
News The Mozilla Foundation on Monday announced the finalists in a contest to find the best new add-on for the open source browser. The Mozilla Foundation said over 200 extensions were submitted to the contest.
[February 7, 2006, 14:20]
Mozilla Backtracks On EBay Plug-in
News The Mozilla Foundation has updated the German-language version of Firefox in a bid to defuse a growing controversy over the way its search toolbar handles private customer data. Mozilla's update to the German Firefox didn't come soon enough to head...
[November 23, 2004, 8:25]
Firefox Sneaks Into The Enterprise
News The Mozilla Foundation claims that Firefox has been adopted by large enterprises, but companies are often choosing to keep it quiet to maintain a good relationship with Microsoft. Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, speaking at the Free...
[March 1, 2005, 13:35]
Mozilla Preps More Updates
News The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser, Thunderbird email client and full Internet Suite, will be updated for the second time in a week due to code changes that have unintentionally stopped some third-party extensions from functioning correctly.
[July 18, 2005, 10:05]
Mozilla Testing Point Updates
News The Mozilla Foundation plans to "shortly" release new versions of its Firefox and Mozilla Web browsers to address a recently disclosed serious security bug as well as several additional flaws, a representative said on Wednesday.
[September 15, 2005, 9:40]
Firefox Branding Is A Burning Issue
News The Mozilla Foundation may face problems enforcing its conditions of use for the Firefox browser due to trademark issues. The foundation is facing criticism from developers of the Debian Linux distribution (which distributes a version of Firefox...
[June 16, 2005, 15:05]
New Mozilla Name Rises From Ashes
News Ten months after landing in a fierce trademark dispute with a fellow open-source organisation, the Mozilla Foundation has changed the name of its standalone browser from Firebird to Firefox. A subsequent decision to adopt the name "Firefox" also...
[February 10, 2004, 7:30]
IE Rivals Squabble Over Browser Award
News A Mozilla Foundation employee has hit out at Opera Software for claiming it won a best browser award, saying this award was actually won by the open source browser Firefox. A few days later Asa Dotzler, an employee at the Mozilla Foundation...
[June 10, 2005, 17:40]
Mozilla Defines New Structure For Thunderbird
News The Mozilla Foundation is set to establish a new organisational structure for Thunderbird, its open-source email and news client, to allow it to concentrate on its Firefox browser. While the Mozilla Foundation's taxable subsidiary, the Mozilla...
[July 27, 2007, 14:13]
Unofficial Firefox For Intel Macs Released
News The Mozilla Foundation has set a March launch date for a version of its Firefox Web browser that will run on Apple's Intel version of Mac OS X. We are targeting the official release of Firefox for Intel Mac OS X in late March with the Firefox...
[January 16, 2006, 8:30]
Firefox Phishing Flaw Fixed
News The Mozilla Foundation released an update to the Firefox Web browser on Thursday to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that would allow domain spoofing. Mozilla, which released the free 1.0 program in November, says an average of 250,000...
[February 25, 2005, 8:15]
Jeeves Asking Mozilla For Support
News Ask Jeeves and the Mozilla Foundation have begun discussions on the twin possibilities of a Firefox-based Jeeves browser and of donating Jeeves' desktop search technology to the open source group. Mozilla's browsers, including Firefox, lag far...
[February 15, 2005, 11:45]
Mozilla Offers $500 Bug Bounty
News The announcement comes a week after the Mozilla Foundation, which directs development of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers and the Thunderbird email client, confirmed that the group's browsers had two serious issues in dealing with digital...
[August 3, 2004, 11:00]
Firefox Beats Million-download Deadline
News With days to spare, the Mozilla Foundation beat its 10-day goal of 1 million Firefox downloads. Released six days ago, the first preview release of the Firefox 1.0 Web browser passed the million-download mark early in its fifth day, according to...
[September 21, 2004, 8:00]
Firefox Gains More Ground On IE
News The percentage of Americans using Mozilla and Firefox, two open-source browsers funded by the Mozilla Foundation, grew to 6 percent in October from 5.2 percent in September and 3.5 percent in June. Alternative Web browsers Mozilla and Firefox...
[November 2, 2004, 7:59]
Mozilla Tries Out Next-generation Web Forms
News While the extension doesn't run on production versions of Mozilla or Firefox -- it needs a recent Alpha build of either package -- the Mozilla foundation says it's good enough for developers to start testing and using while creating forms.
[February 16, 2005, 16:40]
