Browser Newsletter #5
- Mozilla Previews Firefox for PDAs, Smartphones
- Opera Mobile 9.5 Unveiled
- Firefox 3 Beta 3 expected early next week
- Your MySpace Web Browser Is Coming
- Mozilla patches three critical Firefox flaws
- Safari is about to get crazy fast
- Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12
Mozilla Previews Firefox for PDAs, Smartphones
Head over to the Mozilla wiki and you’ll find, if not the first fruits, then the first designs of this endeavor. There you’ll see early mockups and descriptions of what should become a version of Firefox for PDAs and smartphones. The wiki covers potential user interface designs for standard and touch-screen of Firefox Mobile, with and without a QWERTY thumb-keyboard. Images picture a main screen with and without a URL toolbar, in addition to the URL entry screen and page load screen. History and bookmark management and atab screen with thumbnails of web pages are are also covered.
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© PDAStreet, 03/02/08
Opera Mobile 9.5 Unveiled
Opera has just unveiled the newest version of its mobile web browser: Opera Mobile 9.5. The software, which will be officially previewed at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, introduces several enhancements to the prior version including faster speeds, a re-designed UI, and Opera Widgets. The Opera Mobile upgrade will be available for the major mobile operating systems (Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Linux) as both a standalone browser and as a software development kit.
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© ReadWriteWeb, 06/02/08
Firefox 3 Beta 3 expected early next week
The process of building and testing builds which will become Firefox 3 Beta 3 began on Monday at 7:20pm PST when development handed over control to the build team for branching and tagging. Things are moving along well, and release candidates are now being tested by the Quality Assurance team.
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© Mozilla Developer Center, 07/02/08
Your MySpace Web Browser Is Coming
Flock, the Mozilla-based social web browser has made the announcement that everyone has been waiting for: they will now integrate with MySpace. Building on the MySpace Developer Platform [...]
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© ReadWriteWeb, 07/02/08
Mozilla patches three critical Firefox flaws
Mozilla issued 10 patches on Friday for its Firefox browser, including three for critical vulnerabilities. The latest version of Firefox is now 2.0.0.12. One of the critical vulnerabilities,MFSA 2008-06, is a problem in the way the browser handles images on certain Web pages. It’s possible to exploit the flaw to steal a person’s Web browsing history, forward that information and then crash the browser. It may also be possible to run arbitrary code on a machine, Mozilla said. A second critical vulnerabilitycan enable a privilege escalation attack or remote code execution. The last critical problem involves amemory corruption flawthat “we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code,” Mozilla said.
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© The Washington Post, 08/02/08
Safari is about to get crazy fast
When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers online.
The latest builds of WebKit are adding a great number of improvements that go beyond the “Catching up” that it has been doing in the past. These improvements can be broken down into two major areas: features and speed. The features are certainly interesting and you can read about many of them here. I want to focus specifically on speed.
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© Computerworld, 08/02/08
Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12, mere hours old, is vulnerable by default to a directory traversal trick, via the view-source mechanism. Although mitigated by the NoScript plug-in, this is quite a serious bug — the default installation is vulnerable from the get-go.
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© Slashdot, 09/02/08