Browsers
Firefox 3.6.2
Mozilla yesterday released a beta version of the Firefox 3.6 browser to fix several stability and security issues.
Firefox 3.6.2 has been released to Mozilla’s beta tester community, and includes several bug fixes such as crashes when using Adobe’s ClickMap add-on. Other problems reported by some users, such as there being no prompt to update extensions [...]
Apple Safari 4.0.5
Apple has released Safari 4.0.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities in ColorSync, ImageIO, PubSub, Safari, and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple article HT4070 and upgrade to Safari 4.0.5 to help mitigate [...]
Firefox 2.0 drops off the radar
We keep an active check on the browsers that our visitors use, mainly for interest, but today is the first day that there have been no visitors at all using Firefox 2.0.
We guess that in general if you’ve chosen Firefox, you keep up to date (assuming all your favorite add-ins work in the new version).
We [...]
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers’ Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced scripting functionality that lets
site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread to reduce the performance hit on Firefox’s user interface. The fixes are already in the 3.6 release.
Cloud [...]
Firefox 3.6 beta 5
Beta 5 of Firefox 3.6 has now been released.
Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on [...]
Firefox 3.0.16
Firefox 3.0, has been updated with the release of version 3.0.16. The release contained seven patches, two of them marked critical. The browser will also will loose security support next month.
Firefox 3.5.6
Mozilla has patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser’s rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and other components.
Maxthon 2.0
We’ve been checking our website visitor logs again and noticed that the Maxthon browser appears a lot.
According to Wikipedia:
Maxthon (pronounced /ˈmækstən/ and formerly known as MyIE2) is a China-based freeware (more specifically donateware) web browser for Windows. From its early MyIE2 roots, Maxthon has developed a growing user base, especially in China, and in 2006 [...]
Camino 2.0.1
Camino 2.0.1 is a security and stability update for Camino 2.0.
All users are urged to upgrade.
Using Selenium IDE with Firefox 3.6
The current version of Selenium IDE (1.0.2) is ‘incompatible’ with Firefox 3.6 betas, as shown below.
There is a workaround or trick that you can use to get round this.
Warning!
It involves editing the configuration and settings of your Firefox browser, so be careful – you have been warned.
Step 1
In the address bar of Firefox, enter about:config
You [...]
