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Mozilla updated JavaScript security Flaw

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Mozilla updated JavaScript security issue in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

Security problem in the JavaScript engine introduced a stability problem with the applications, where some users experienced crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. The Web browser developer said the fix is being issued to mainly address the stability issues and made a point of saying that there is no evidence that the issue is exploitable.
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The issue now fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.14, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and SeaMonkey 1.1.10. The applications are available for download from the developer’s Web site.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Final in June

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Mozilla Corp. Thursday confirmed that it will release the final beta of Firefox 3.0 shortly, and that it expects to deliver the finished browser to users in June.

Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 has been code-frozen, said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, and is working its way toward release. “That will be the last beta for Firefox 3.0,” he said. Once Beta 5 is out of the way, developers will move to the Release Candidate (RC) stage.

Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 about two and a half weeks ago. According to its online schedule, Beta 5 will probably hit the company’s download servers sometime early next week.

The open-source Firefox currently accounts for about 17.3% of the browser market, according to Net Applications Inc.’s most recent data. Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer rules the roost with 74.9%, while Apple Inc.’s Safari holds down third place with 5.7%.

source:pcworld

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AOL will no longer support Netscape Navigator

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Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.

In the mid-1990s, as the commercial web began to take off, the browser was used by more than 90% of people online.

Its market share has since slipped to just 0.6% as other browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox have eroded its user base.

The company recommends that users upgrade their browser to either Firefox or Flock, which are both built on the same underlying technologies as Navigator.

“I think we represent the hope that was of Netscape,” Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation which coordinates development of Firefox

source:BBC News

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Firefox 3.0 Beta: It was Having Hundreds of Memory Leaks Before

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Firefox 3.0’s memory consumption is “dramatically improved,” claimed Mozilla Corp.’s chief engineer Thursday, because developers have aggressively attacked the open-source browser’s notorious memory “leaks.”

“We’ve been working on memory leaks for years,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering. “But it really started to come together in the last six months.”

Another milestone, however, might have been three months ago, when a member of the Mozilla board of directors said attention had to be paid to Firefox’s memory allocation if the browser was going to compete in the RAM-tight mobile market.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” said Schroepfer. “Our memory usage is significantly improved, and dramatically better than Internet Explorer 7.”

But the work’s not finished. “Most of the big memory issues are resolved, and we’re seeing some pretty good numbers on memory consumption, but some additional work is one reason why we felt we needed Beta 4.”

In the run-up to releasing Beta 4, Mozilla acknowledged that it would take the time to do at least one more beta build. According to Schroepfer, Beta 4’s code freeze date — when all work stops in preparation for the build to enter final testing before release — has been set as Feb. 26.

 

source:pcworld
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Mozilla freezes Firefox 3.0 Beta 3

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As Mozilla Corp. began the final push on Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 this week, it also announced that at least one more beta will be necessary before it starts building release candidates.

On Tuesday, Mozilla “froze” the code for Firefox 3.0 Beta 3. Testing of the beta is scheduled to start on Monday.

At the same time, in a message to the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup, Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, said that a fourth beta would be required.

“[We] will be adding another milestone before moving on to Release Candidate builds,” Beltzner said. “Our goal is to do a quick turnaround on Firefox 3 Beta 4, but we cannot provide a good estimate until we know the size and scope of blockers remaining after the Beta 3 code freeze.”

As of Beta 3, all efforts will turn to addressing bugs that could stymie the preview’s release, Beltzner added. “We will be driving the list of blocking+, P1, target=beta 3 bugs to zero,” he said. As of Thursday at 9 p.m. (EST), there were three bugs that met his criteria; in Mozilla’s nomenclature, such bugs are dubbed “blockers,” meaning they are crucial enough that they require solutions before the beta is allowed to ship.

According to notes from a Tuesday meeting, Beta 3’s tentative schedule points toward a release on or about Feb. 13.

Those same notes also noted the status of efforts to make the browser’s add-ons compatible with the upcoming preview. Approximately 41% of all extensions, by usage, have been modified so that they will work with Beta 3, Mozilla reported. Several widely-used add-ons, however, do not yet support Firefox Beta 3, including IE Tab, Forecastfox, Fasterfox and Firebug.

Mozilla released Firefox 3 Beta 2 on Dec. 18, beating a self-imposed deadline by several days. The company regularly declines to set a release date for the final version of the browser.

source:computerworld