The same day Firefox 3 was shipping, Tipping Point, a research organization for vulnerability analysis and discovery,^A  released an upcoming advisory (ZDI-CAN-349) about a new security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, affecting Firefox 2 and 3 in their Zero Day Initiative site. Following their own policies, Tipping Point has not

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The latest Opera 9.2, brought a new feature called Speed Dial which is basically a grid of your 9 favorite or more visited sites’ thumbnails presented instead of the blank page you get when you add a new tab. Speed Dial is a Firefox extension developed by Josep del Rio that brings the same functionality

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A vulnerability in how Firefox handles chrome: addresses, which are used to load specific Firefox and extensions’ interface elements like windows, buttons and dialogs, could allow a malicious site to access local files in known locations. The vulnerability affects extensions that are installed as a set of uncompressed files, as opposed to the more common

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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 RC2, the second release candidate of the next major Firefox upgrade. If you’ve been following Firefox 3.5 development you may realize there was no RC1 as expected. In fact, this is a new approach Mozilla is taking for this stage. As explained by Mike Beltzner, Firefox product director,^A basically, the

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As you may know, Firefox 4 will have the tab bar placed on top of the navigation bar by default, significantly changing the way it looks and, to some degree, behaves for long time Firefox users. As Alex Faaborg emphasizes in this video, this is all about the default layout. Reversing to tabs below the

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Recent Firefox 3 nightlies finally offer true full screen mode. In Firefox 2 (and previous Firefox 3 betas including beta 4) when you press F11 or select Full Screen from the View menu, Firefox expands to use all the screen but still shows the navigation and tab bars. To effectively use all available screen state

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Mozilla VP of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer, has confirmed that the final release of Firefox 3, currently in Beta 4 stage, is expected for June, a full quarter later than the latest estimate and some nine months past the original. According to Firefox 3 Beta 5 release schedule, it is being built as I write this

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Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg has posted yet another peek at Firefox 3 extensive visual refresh. This time he shares a partial collection of the different icon sets Firefox 3 will feature. As reported before, Firefox 3 will break with the restriction of keeping a very tight visual identity across all supported platforms and will instead aim

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Mozilla Labs released today Prism, a rebranded version of WebRunner, a Mozilla-based application for running single web applications. On the name change, Mozilla’s Alex Faaborg comments: most people aren’t going to semantically disambiguate terms the same way we do. For mainstream users, “running” means faster than jogging, and similarly “execution” involves killing people. The name

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While we wait for the option to save a web page as a PDF, due by Firefox 3 final release, there is another option for sharing and archiving web pages. Save As Image, is a simple yet useful Firefox extension developed by Rowan Lewis that adds an option to Save Page as Image to the

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Mozilla’s Doug Turner announced that support for accelerometers has landed to Firefox’s main development repository, the trunk. For those unfamiliar, an acceloremeter is a cool little device that comes in several consumer devices including the MacBook Pro, iPhones, and other cell phones that tell the operating system the current device orientation and movement enabling some

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The door is open again and registration available for Weave, Mozilla Labs’ application for synchronizing Firefox metadata online. To register, visit Weave User Registration site. You only need to provide a valid email address, a password, proof you’re human (thorugh a CAPTCHA test) and click the activation link you will receive by email. On activation

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A common complaint about the current Firefox 4 theme is the wasted space in the title bar, between the Firefox menu and the window control buttons (maximize, minimize, close). Mozilla is planning to fix this in the next betas, and as usual, it is already providing experimental builds that show the tabs at the very

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The initial plan for Firefox 3.6 (code named Namoroka) originally aimed for including pieces of Personas, Ubiquity (a command line in the location bar), Jetpack (light extensions), and Prism (ability to make web applications more desktop friendly), but when a few weeks ago, Firefox development team decided for a quick update (later this year) rather

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Synovel Techologies has released Spicebird 0.4, the first public release of its open source Mozilla-based personal information manager that integrates Thunderbird, Lightning and XMPP to deliver email, calendaring, instant messaging and other communication tools on a single product. As expected from the demo revealed a few weeks ago, it adds a few integration features on

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In Firefox, one thing you can’t customize is the main menu. And you may find it’s a waste of space to have a whole bar for just a couple of frequent tasks like bookmarking, history or tweaking a preference here and there. Personal Menu is a Firefox extension developed by Merci Chao that comes to

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Mozilla is taking no break this year end, and the Firefox team is actively working on the roadmap for 2010. According to recent entries in the Mozilla Wiki, the planned features for next year are: Out of process plugins (OOPP), or the ability to run browser plugins (like Flash, Silverlight, Gears) on their own process

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The latest Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 nightlies now feature a new about:support page that lists important information about your Firefox installation that will help support people help with problems you may have in the future. Implemented as one of the private about: pages. Enter about:support in the location bar, hit Enter, and you will get

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Mozilla’s Stephen Horlander has posted several mockups of an updated Firefox theme on Windows Vista and XP (Strata). Before getting to excited about it, note that these are mere mockups for “brainstoming and exploration only”. Second, the page title suggests it won’t be available until spring next year, the targeted Firefox 3.7 release date. In

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Mozilla CEO, Mitchell Baker has announced the Mozilla Foundation is looking for options on how to give Thunderbird as a project, the autonomy and focus it needs to develop to its full potential. “The Thunderbird effort is dwarfed by the enormous energy and community focused on the web, Firefox and the ecosystem around it. As

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