Since 2004, Mozilla has been offering a bounty of $500 for any security bug information, and now it upped the amount of the bounty to $3,000, undoubtedly attractive for bug finders.

As Lucas Adamski, Director of Security Engineering said in his blog, "While the original mission of protecting users by supporting security research has not changed, the security environment has changed tremendously. In recognition of these changes we are updating our security bounty program to better support constructive security research."

Increase of the bounty payment is not the only thing refreshed in the security bug bounty program, the scope covered by the program has also been expanded. Besides Firefox and Thunderbird, which are already included in the program, Firefox Mobile and any Mozilla services the products rely upon are added into it.

It is also noted in the official reward guidelines that only those significant critical and significant high severity security bugs that meet the following criteria can be awarded. Read the rest of this entry »

Mozilla Firefox has just announced an extension to disable an add-on called "Mozilla Sniffer", and added to the block list.It was discovered that this add-on contains code that intercepts login data submitted to any website, and sends this data to a remote location. "Mozilla Sniffer" was uploaded on June 6th to addons.mozilla.org. until July 12th. It has been downloaded approximately 1,800 times.

The expansion pretended to be very good, if you do not see the code is hard to find that it is a malicious program,Mozilla recommends users who downloaded the extension change their password in time, and pledged to strengthen the review of additional code.

Google Chrome has quickly grown into No. 3 position in browsers. Some market analysts said, Chrome's rapid development will pose a threat to the Firefox browser. Several years ago the Firefox Web browser brought serious competition back to Web browsers. Prior to this, the browser market was dominated by Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

Today, Google inc. is shaking up the web browser market again. Google's Chrome Web browser reached 7.24% of the world-wide browser market in June and is the fastest-growing program for surfing the Web, according to data from NetApplications.com, which tracks Web usage. Google says Chrome had more than 70 million active users in May, up from 30 million in June 2009.

The browser war of the late 1990s between Microsoft and Netscape Communications Corp. was the first truly great war of the Internet era. Microsoft's Internet Explorer emerged from that battle with a share of the browser market that once exceeded 90% until Firefox came along. Read the rest of this entry »

We know Opera released a new version of browser last week, Opera 10.6, provides users with a series of performance and functionality improvements. At the same time, Opera Cfompany also claims, Opera 10.6 is currently the world's fastest browser.

As we all know, the world's popular browser are Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft IE and Apple Safari and so on. Below, use the following three popular test suites for the five major browsers we listed. The suites named: SunSpider Benchmark, JSBenchmark (by Celtic Kane), and Futuremark Peacekeeper Benchmark.

The test version of the browser were Opera 10.5,Opera 10.6 ,Chrome 6.0.408.1,Chrome 5.0.375.86、FireFox 3.6.4 ,Safari 5.0 (7553.16) ,IE8,IE9 (Trial Build 3).

The test results are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

Net Applications' web browser market share data of June was finally declared. Google Chrome grew to 7.24 percent, up from 7.04 in May and cracked the 7 percent mark.

Microsoft Internet Explorer went so far as 60.32 percent up from 60 percent, after falling to 59.95 percent in April and 59.75 percent in May.

On the contrary, Mozilla Firefox which has achieved 25 percent share in 2009 slipped below24 percent to 23.81 percent for the month. Similarly, Safari's gain was insignificant, going from 4.77 percent share in May to 4.85 percent in June.

Surprisingly, the market share data of Chrome was lower than that of StatCounter, which said June 28 that Chrome commands a 9.4 percent browser market share.

Mozilla Firefox is a famous web browser with more secure, faster and easier to use. The latest released version Firefox 4 Pre-Beta Candidate sets a new standard for web browser innovation and is suitable for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. In addition, it offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and owns the ability to block pop-up windows as well as phishing protection.

The 4 Pre-Beta Candidate supports subscribing preview, spelling check of web page and JavaScript 1.7. However, the most considerable transform is UI innovation in which the adorable little fox has simplified toolbar into only one button. Its native support to Aero Glass and bookmarks management will facilitate users to a large extent.

With such appealing functions, there are sufficient grounds for our expectancy of official version at the end of this year.

The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. The Mozilla predict that they will update for the Firefox 3.6.4 version on May. But now you will need to wait a bit longer.

The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. The Mozilla predict that they will update for the Firefox 3.6.4 version on May. But now you will need to wait a bit longer.

Long time ago, there was a piece of news that Firefox 3.6 will update to Firefox 4.0, this is the next major generation products of Firefox 3.6. So the version of Firefox 3.7 has substituted for the version of Firefox 3.6.4.

Due to some blockers on the upcoming 3.6.4 build discovered, the upcoming releases have been postponed. Firefox 3.6.4 Beta 4 still exist 6 bugs through the test on last week. And next week they will test Firefox 3.6.4 Beta 5 version. So Firefox 3.6.4 have to delay to release on June. This released is later than Firefox 3.6.3 about 2 months.

Mozilla has confirmed that the next major update is Firefox 4.0. The 4.0 Version is headed for an October or November 2010 release and will bring new users interface and browser sync integration. They predict that the first beta hitting will appear in June.

Previously, developers had planned to follow the last major release of Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.7.But Mozilla have some changed. The former Firefox 3.7 will be released as Firefox 3.6.4. At the end of this year, the new 4.0 version will coming.

Not only it can let user experience more fast and more intuitive. But also it will remove the modal dialog and improve the speed of startup. In order to improve navigation, 4.0 will add a "switch to tab" tool for reducing the number of tabs and facilitating jumps between them. At the same time, it will also add a dedicated application tab which will lets you return to frequently used services.

Let us look forward to the Firefox 4.0 together!

Do you like surfing on the Internet? Mozilla Firefox is a good choose for you. Now the 3.6.4 RC version of Mozilla Firefox was Released. Make sure this new version will brings you the best of the Modern web.

In order to reducing the crash and error of Mozilla Firefox. This new version add a function of anti-suspended and run the plug-in independent. In addition, some bugs has been Repaired:
- Fixed security issues
- Fixed stability problems

Try and get Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 RC on brothersoft!

The famous web browser Mozilla Firefox has released a new beta version of 3.6.4. Testing beta builds of Firefox helps ensure that they are secure and stable for hundreds of millions of users around the world. You could submit any new problems that you experience in this beta version. And let's see what's new in this beta version.

What's New in Firefox 3.6.4 Beta
Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.

If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.

Firefox 3.6.4 also fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.

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