Tag: firefox

Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!'

As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox

OS PLATFORMS

Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever

Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows

Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes

Export a profile on Windows, restore it on Linux. Extensions and themes too

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar

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security

Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull

Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive

Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security

You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice

Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs

In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits

Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components

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Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality

A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster

PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security

Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along

Users can disable every generative feature in one click – not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabs

Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly

More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser

Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking

Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around

Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks

Offbeat

Welcome to Wendy's! Before your order can be taken, you must first reset this kiosk

Do you want bork with that?

Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful

Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.

Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo picked to replace interim boss Laura Chambers

Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

Surf Google SERPs like it's November 29, 2022, with this workaround for the age of AI slop

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone"

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

Shaq's new ride gets jaq'ed in haq attaq

PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more!

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards

Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems

Networks

Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN

Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

Firefox ESR 115 won't quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026

Firefox 145 is dumping 32-bit Linux, though

Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs

Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI

The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

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Cyber-crime

Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons

Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck

But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than others

Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features

Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket

Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support

Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either

Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome

AI could bring a new round of browser wars

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Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans

Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

We'll see if messaging client can keep up with sibling browser

Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers

Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers

Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox

To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features

Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more

Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz

Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

Mozilla sells ads, Google limits blocking them – it's time for stricter measures

Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted

Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Simply the best FOSS desktop OS there is, outside of the Windows and Unix families

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla

Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

A former exec believes in the non-profit's mission, says the battle lines have changed

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

Firefox overlord to 'revisit' advocacy mission

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite

Cybersecurity Month

Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting

Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw

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At Mozilla VPN stands for Vague Product News: Foundation reveals security product will launch eventually, with temporary pricing, in unspecified places

Update Firefox: Mozilla just patched three hijack-me holes and a bunch of other flaws

Prepare to have your shonky password hygiene shamed by Firefox 76

We could all do with a bit of empathy in our systems, says Mozilla as it ships Firefox 75 in the thick of global pandemic

Today in tortured tech analogies: Mozilla lets Firefox loose in the hen house, and by hen house, we mean the tracking cookie jar, er...

Mozilla shaves down Beard to a luxuriant mustache, looks for new CEO by end of year

Anatomy of an attack: How Coinbase was targeted with emails booby-trapped with Firefox zero-days

Palo Alto gateway security alert, FSB hack, scourge of data-stealing web plugins, and more

Firefox 68 arrives with darker dark mode, redesigned extensions dashboard

Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist

Two pentesters, one glitch: Firefox browser menaced by ancient file-snaffling bug, er, feature

Firefox Preview for Android: Mozilla has another go at a mobile browser

Cisco cleans up critical flaws, Florida city forks out $600k to ransomware scumbags, and more from infosec land

Digi-dosh exchange Coinbase: Someone tried to pwn our staff via this week's Firefox zero-day security hole

Awoogah! Awoogah! Firefox fans urged to update and patch zero-day hole exploited in the wild by miscreants

Firefox fires blockers at trackers, Exim tackles command exec flaw, and RDP pops up yet again

Firefox armagg-add-on: Lapsed security cert kills all browser extensions, from website password managers to ad blockers

Bug-hunter faces jail for vulnerability reports, DuckDuckPwn (almost), family spied on via Nest gizmo, and more

Mozilla security policy cracks down on creepy web trackers, holds supercookies over fire

The fastest, most secure browser? Microsoft Edge apparently

Your RSS is grass: Mozilla euthanizes feed reader, Atom code in Firefox browser, claims it's old and unloved

Have I been pwned, Firefox? OK, let's ask its Have I Been Pwned tool

Mozilla changes Firefox policy from ‘do not track’ to ‘will not track’

Get rich with Firefox or (int )NULL = 0 trying: Automated bug-bounty hunter build touted

Chrome, Firefox pull very unstylish Stylish invasive browser plugin

Personal Tech

Google leaps on the platform formerly known as Firefox with $22m splurge for KaiOS

Firefox hooks up with HaveIBeenPwned for account pwnage probe

Microsoft Edge bug odyssey shows why we can't have nice things

Firefox to feature sponsored content as of next week

Get the FTP outta here, says Firefox

Personal Tech

Fed up with Facebook data slurping? Firefox has a cunning plan

More ad-versarial tech: Mozilla to pop limited ad blocker into Firefox

Mozilla's opt-out Firefox DNS privacy test sparks, er, privacy outcry

Mozilla wants to seduce BOFHs with button-down Firefox

Mozilla sends more snooping Web APIs to smartphone Siberia

Unsanitary Firefox gets fix for critical HTML-handling hijack flaw

Firefox to emit ‘occasional sponsored story’ in ads test

It's 2018 and… wow, you're still using Firefox? All right then, patch these horrid bugs

Mozilla edict: 'Web-accessible' features need 'secure contexts'

Mozilla offers sysadmins a Policy Engine for roll-your-own Firefox installs

Firefox 57's been quietly delaying tracking scripts

Mozilla and Yahoo! trade sueballs over Firefox-Google search deal

Firefox to warn users who visit p0wned sites

The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

Firefox bookmark saving add-on gives users that sync-ing feeling

Tor blimey, guv'nor: Firefox to try on privacy tool's Canvas gloves to leave fewer fingerprints

Gotta have standards? Security boffins not API about bloated browsers

German Firefox users to test recommendation engine 'a bit like thought-reading'

Another W3C API exposing users to browser snitching

Mozilla extends, and ends, Firefox support for Windows XP and Vista

Mozilla whips out Rusty new Firefox Quantum (and that's a good thing)

You are the one per cent if you read Firefox's privacy spiels

Russian malware scum post new rent-an-exploit

Old Firefox add-ons get 'dead man walking' call

Meet VRfox: Mozilla's latest attempt at regaining browser share

Browser trust test: Would you let Chrome block ads? Or Firefox share and encrypt files?

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

Networks

Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

Cisco plugs command-injection hole in WebEx Chrome, Firefox plugins

Firefox 54 delivers sandboxes Mozilla's wanted since 2009

Russian hackers and Britney Spears in one story. Are you OK, Reg?

SaaS

Azure Portal rejects Firefox after certificate revocation SNAFU

Hi! I’m Foxy! It looks like you want to run Flash. Do you need help?

Phishing scum going legit to beat browser warnings

Mozilla to Thunderbird: You can stay here and we may give you cash, but as a couple, it's over

Flatpak and Snaps aren't destined for graveyard of failed Linux tech yet