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Firefox 3.6.8 released

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:47:38 +0000

Security Advisories Fixed in Firefox 3.6.8:

MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

From http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html

User Agent string for Firefox 4.0 beta 1

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:09:41 +0000

This is what Firefox 4.0 beta 1 describes itself as:

“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100630 Firefox/4.0b1″

Firefox 4.0 beta 1

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:14:46 +0000

Firefox 4 Beta 1 includes an updated Windows interface that’s sleeker and easier to use. (Mac & Linux are coming soon!)

Under the Hood

WebSockets

Developers will be able to build real-time online interactions like gaming and chatting.

Stylin’ Pages with CSS3

With support for new CSS3 features, web designers can make their pages both look prettier and display faster.

HTML5 Support

A new HTML5 parser and full support for web video, audio, drag & drop, and file handling means Firefox 4 is ready to run the best web apps of both today and tomorrow.

Web Console

With this experimental analysis tool for modern sites, Firefox allows you to peek under the hood of dynamic web pages.

JetPack SDK (Making Add-On Development Easier)

Add-Ons can be installed without restarting the browser, and can be developed more easily using the new JetPack SDK and js-ctypes.

Indexed DB

Developers will be able to store application data locally, making cloud applications like Gmail or GDocs work more quickly and reliably, even when not connected to a network.

Crash Protection

Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows, Linux, and now Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these commonly-used plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Instead, you can simply reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.

Firefox 3.6.6

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:23:08 +0000

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

Cloud Agents updated with Firefox 3.5.10

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:25 +0000

To enable our users to test with Firefox 3.5.10, our testing agents (servers) have now been updated.

For more details see the updates section at http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/updates/

Firefox 3.5.10

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:03:21 +0000

Firefox 3.5.10 has been released – it patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Firefox gets crash protection with 3.6.4

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:02:00 +0000

Firefox 3.6.4 has been released with crash protection for Adobe’s Flash Player, Apple ‘s QuickTime and Microsoft ‘s Silverlight plug-ins, and is available only in Firefox for Windows and Linux . Mozilla is still working on the “out of process plug-ins,” or OOPP feature, for the Mac version. The version also patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Safari 5.0

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:14:49 +0000

This update contains new features including:

* Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page.
* Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.
* Bing Search Option: New Bing search option for Safari’s Search Field, in addition to Google and Yahoo!.
* Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby.
* Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.

Other improvements include:

* Smarter Address Field: The Smart Address Field can now match text against the titles of webpages in History and Bookmarks, as well as any part of their URL.
* Tabs Setting: Automatically open new webpages in tabs instead of in separate windows.
* Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC as well as Mac.
* Search History with Date: A new date indicator in Full History Search shows when webpages were viewed.
* Top Sites/History Button: Switch easily between Top Sites and Full History Search with a new button that appears at the top of each view.
* Private Browsing Icon: A “Private” icon appears in the Smart Address Field when Private Browsing is on. Click on the icon to turn off Private Browsing.
* DNS Prefetching: Safari looks up the addresses of links on webpages and can load those pages faster.
* Improved Page Caching: Safari can add additional types of webpages to the cache so they load quickly.
* XSS Auditor: Safari can filter potentially malicious scripts used in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
* Improved JavaScript Support: Safari allows web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to run faster and more securely.

For more information about fixes that improve performance, stability and compatibility, please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4135.

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Firefox 3.6.2

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:06:36 +0000

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 for the browser when Firefox was upgraded, have been fixed in the new version.

The beta isn’t aimed at all surfers, though changes will eventually be implemented in the full, stable version of Firefox 3.6.

You can download the Firefox 3.6.2 beta from the Mozilla website.

Firefox 3.6 was launched in January, with Firefox being the second-most popular browser after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, though Microsoft’s dominance of the browser market is already being eroded after it was forced to offer everyone using it’s operating system the chance to switch to another browser – Opera has already reported a rise in the number of people using its browser as a consequence.

Apple Safari 4.0.5

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:22:28 +0000

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 the risks.

The Cloud Testing Agents have been updated to the latest release.