Stuart Parmenter / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Now Available — Our first Firefox 4 beta for mobile is now available to download and test. It’s built on the same technology platform as Firefox for the desktop and optimized for browsing on a mobile phone. Firefox beta for mobile comes …
Mozilla’s Aza Raskin has described a unique phishing attack that Firefox engineers will need to correct. InformationWeek reports that Raskin has dubbed the attack “tabnapping” because malicious JavaScript code can alter tabs when they are hidden from …
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The team behind the Firefox browser has warned users about a new kind of phishing attack. The new phishing attack replaces an inactive browser tab on the Firefox browser with a malicious phishing page designed to steal user names and passwords for e-mail and bank accounts from unsuspecting users …
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Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News:
The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009 — This past year felt like a rebuilding year for Firefox add-ons, with two new frameworks implemented to help guide the future of extensions. Personas gave Firefox on-the-fly theme-switching, and users can expect it to be part of the stable version of Firefox 3.6 when that gets released.