Tag: Firefox

January 31, 2018

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox 58 that addresses a critical remote code vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Mozilla has released an update for the Firefox 58 browser (aka Firefox Quantum) […]

November 1, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is boosting privacy in an upcoming version of its Firefox browser by removing the snooping capability called canvas fingerprinting, a method of tracking users across multiple websites. The feature is expected to be removed in January 2018 […]

August 14, 2017

The popular web browser released a major update on August 8, version 55, which — in addition to some nifty new features, like Virtual Reality support — includes a number of security fixes. Firefox 55 remediates three critical and 11 high-impact vulnerabilities, as […]

August 1, 2017

Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDFs? Not only is there an app for that, it turns out there’s even a browser plugin called Copyfish to help you, too. Copyfish is supposed to let you grab subtitles from […]

January 3, 2017

Mozilla announced the introduction of a new privacy protection mechanism to Firefox 52 that prevents websites from fingerprinting through system fonts. The technique is widely adopted by advertising companies via hidden scripts delivered with ads that take the list of local fonts and […]

December 30, 2016

Support for Windows XP and Vista will be removed from Firefox, currently the last major web browser out there to still support the two outdated operating system versions. In a blog post just before Christmas, Mozilla announced plans to automatically […]

October 3, 2016

To protect users from cryptographic attacks that can compromise secure web connections, the popular Firefox browser will block access to HTTPS servers that use weak Diffie-Hellman keys. Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol that is slowly replacing the widely used […]

July 11, 2016

Click-ad-fraud Kovter malware, packaged as a legitimate Firefox browser update, is being delivered to unsuspecting victims via drive-by-download attacks. Kovter, which also occasionally installs other malware, has been around for a few years now, and has gone through many changes […]

September 6, 2015

#mozilla said an unknown #attacker accessed its #bugzilla bug-and-change tracking database, stole information about 53 critical security #vulnerabilities, and used at least one of those flaws to attack #firefox #users. Bugzilla is the open-source #tracker that Mozilla’s developers — both […]

August 19, 2015

Mozilla announced last Friday that it’s released new privacy enhancements in its popular Firefox browser for pre-beta testing. The “experimental” features – enabled by default in the Firefox developer edition – include Tracking Protection to actively block website elements that […]

September 3, 2014

Mozilla has released Firefox 32 for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. In addition to some new features, the latest version of the Web browser also includes fixes for several security vulnerabilities and support for public key pinning.

July 25, 2014

Firefox has blocked known phishing and malware sites for some time. Now it will check reputation on individual files and soon use file signatures.

July 23, 2014

Firefox 31 was released by Mozilla on Tuesday and fixes a total of 11 vulnerabilities affecting earlier versions.

July 22, 2014

On July 22, Mozilla officially released the stable version for Firefox 31 for all supported platforms, integrating 11 security fixes, three of them being marked as critical.One of the major vulnerabilities corrected would allow exploitation of a WebGL crash with […]