Browsers
Firefox 3.6.6
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
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
Firefox 3.5.10 has been released – it patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.
Firefox gets crash protection with 3.6.4
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 [...]
Safari 5.0
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run [...]
