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Avatar Posted by davemackey 13 hours ago (http://news.cnet.com) | related links
Category: security | Tags: firefox extension man-in-the-middle attacks elinor mills mozilla
Elinor Mills reports on the new Mozilla Firefox extension that helps increase security while browsing the web and was designed by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University. read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 13 hours ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com) | related links
Category: software | Tags: internet explorer beta vs firefox
So, how does Microsoft's latest beta release of Internet Explorer 8 compare Mozilla's Firefox 3.0.1 in terms of speed? Let's find out in this quick head-to-head! read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 21 hours ago (http://arstechnica.com) | related links
Category: internet | Tags: ubiquity prototype lets users command firefox
A new prototype from Mozilla Labs provides a rich, interactive command interface for the Firefox web browser. It offers tight integration with remote web services and can easily be extended to suppor read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 21 hours ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com) | related links
Category: software | Tags: has firefox matched privacy features
Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called "Man in the Middle" attacks on SSH (secure) sites by creating a virtual notary that can check the validity of an unsigned security certific read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 1 day 2 hours 46 minutes ago (http://www.networkworld.com) | related links
Category: security | Tags: mozilla garners praise firefox security feature
The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tide that Mozilla is headed down the right path. read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 1 day 8 hours ago (http://www.networkworld.com) | related links
Category: security | Tags: mozilla firefox browser security carnegie-mellon digital certificates dns software flaw
"According to the university (Carnegie-Mellon), the Perspectives software not only protects Firefox users against attacks that might occur because of the recently disclosed software flaw in the DNS, but it also defends against some digital-certificate problems that crop up in everyday use." writes Ellen Messmer. read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 1 day 23 hours ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com) | related links
Category: software | Tags: does tracemonkey kick firefox turbo mode
Over the past few days I've been hearing a lot about Mozilla's new and improved JavaScript engine codenamed TraceMonkey. This new scripting engine hopes to bring JavaScript up to speed with natively- read more »
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Avatar Posted by davemackey 1 day 23 hours ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com) | related links
Category: software | Tags: does tracemonkey kick firefox turbo mode
Over the past few days I've been hearing a lot about Mozilla's new and improved JavaScript engine codenamed TraceMonkey. This new scripting engine hopes to bring JavaScript up to speed with natively- read more »
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