Firefox 3 final beta to be released in March
News Firefox 3 edges closer to release, with the fourth and final beta of the web browser out "in a couple of weeks", according to Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer. Memory usage has been improved in the final release version of...
[February 26, 2008, 14:20]
Mozilla releases security fixes
News This update resolves the location.hostname vulnerability and other security and stability issues," Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, said in a statement. The location.hostname vulnerability that Schroepfer referred to was...
[February 26, 2007, 8:03]
Firefox flaw gets temporary fix
News The problem has to do with the way the Firefox and Mozilla browsers handle International Domain Names, or IDNs, said Mike Schroepfer, director of engineering at Mozilla. This is a temporary work-around just to deal with the immediate issue...
[September 12, 2005, 9:40]
Mozilla testing point updates
News As soon as we got the report that users might be impacted, we began evaluating our options," said Mike Schroepfer, director of engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. In addition to patching the IDN bug, the new releases include one functionality...
[September 15, 2005, 9:40]
Facebook engineers' motto: 'Move fast, break stuff'
News More than eight billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer said in a talk on Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Some two billion pieces of content are shared every week, and two...
[October 22, 2009, 12:27]
Firefox 1.5 DoS flaw made public
News And Mozilla has not received any reports from users of such a problem, said Mike Schroepfer, vice-president of engineering for Mozilla. We have gotten no independent verification that it crashes (Firefox), but there have been a lot of attempts to...
[December 9, 2005, 8:15]
CA opens up Ingres
News The decision to make its Ingres database open-source will benefit the company overall, said Andrew Schroepfer, president and founder of Tier 1 Research. While CA may be giving up revenue from their Ingres customers, they can make it up [by] cross...
[May 25, 2004, 9:00]
Web leaders: Scaling apps with cloud computing
News Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogel believes apps immediately need the same scaling capabilities as the platforms they exist on, while Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Facebook, explains how and why two different...
[April 15, 2009, 12:36]
Firefox 2.0 reaches alpha
News The BonEcho Alpha 1 milestone is the first of many developer milestones on the path to Firefox 2," Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering for Mozilla, said in a statement. A developers' version of Firefox 2.0 targeted that was released on
[March 22, 2006, 8:30]
Microsoft and Mozilla admit 'minor' security flaw
News Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, made similar comments. Microsoft and Mozilla have acknowledged that a security hole in their Web browsers could let an intruder nab files, but say it is tough to exploit and so not that...
[June 9, 2006, 10:45]
Mozilla expands as Firefox ploughs on
News Replacing Hofmann as director of engineering is Mike Schroepfer, who will be responsible for day-to-day management of the engineering staff and determining what features and fixes go into releases. As it marked the 75 millionth download of its...
[July 27, 2005, 13:25]
Mozilla downplays Firefox 2.0 bugs
News This is one of the highest quality Firefox releases to date," said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla. A day after shipping Firefox 2.0, Mozilla on Wednesday largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version...
[October 26, 2006, 11:00]
Internet Explorer's shrinking numbers review
Reviews In talking with Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, and Christopher Beard, vice president of marketing and product management at Mozilla, it's clear that Mozilla can be (and is) more efficient than Microsoft in patching...
[October 16, 2006, 13:00]
