On Windows the exploit looked for subversion, s3browser, and Filezilla configurations files, .purple and Psi+ account information, and site configuration files from eight different popular FTP clients. On Linux the exploit goes after the usual global configuration files like /etc/passwd, and then in all the user directories it can access it looks for .bash_history, .mysql_history, .pgsql_history, .ssh configuration files and keys, configuration files for remina

Privacy Badger 1.0 – New Ways to Stop Sneaky Trackers EFF is excited to announce that today we are releasing version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox.  Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks hidden trackers that would otherwise spy on your browsing habits as you surf the Web.

Your support has been truly overwhelming, and we couldn’t possibly have taken this project this far without your encouragement and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, we are unable to continue on this journey, and we will be refunding all Matchstick pledges.

Microsoft has altered Windows 10 so that users have to explicitly set a default app for applications like mail, calendar, or web browsers. The change means the setup installers for Chrome and Firefox can no longer set themselves as the default browser during the install process.

I have read everything and its contrary about CSS vendor prefixes in the last 48 hours. Twitter, blogs, Facebook are full of messages or articles about what are or are supposed to be CSS vendor prefixes.

As of last nightly (2015-07-23), Firefox for Linux is using Gtk+3 instead of Gtk+2.

In April Mozilla's former President Li Gong Mozilla leave and his own startup Acadine Technologies had founded. The company, whose majority of the employees are former employees of Mozilla wants to...

Mozilla says that because Adobe's CDM is proprietary "black box" software, it has made certain to wrap it in a sandbox within Firefox so that its code can't interfere with the rest of the browser.

Mozilla re-enabled Flash on Firefox after blocking it earlier in the week.

Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome browsers blocked old versions Adobe's animation software -- often used to play online videos -- following news reports that hackers were using a security bug to take over peoples' computers.

As you may or may not know, Adobe Flash -- a veteran tool required by many modern browsers for video playback -- is riddled with vulnerabilities. The product has a long history of being thrown under the bus for its security incompetence. Such is the case today. Mozilla announces that it is blocking all versions of Flash Player in its browser with its latest update.

The end of Flash is near as Mozilla blocks it from Firefox and Facebook's security chief said Adobe should kill it.

The Mozilla Firefox web browser now blocks Flash by default. And when I say “blocks,” I don’t mean it asks you nicely if you’d really like to use Flash. I don’t mean it automatically pauses Flash videos like Google Chrome. I mean Mozilla has decided that Flash is going down.

With no obvious cause, numerous subscribers to Google Play Music All Access have suddenly found that just about any non-Chrome browser cannot use the web app to stream songs. Starting on July 9th, reports started flooding in from users of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari about the Play Music web app not functioning correctly. Even more curiously, it *will* work for songs that a user has uploaded; only the songs that are accessed via the All Access subscription fail to stream.

Ubuntu maintainers have finally pushed the update, Canonical has just announced that a large number of Firefox vulnerabilities have been fixed and that version 39.0 of the browser has been added to Ubuntu 15.04 and all the other supported Ubuntu versions.

I'd like to report some Firefox CSS issues. . I am running FireFox 38.0.1 on Debian Stretch. The first image shows how 'charm' bar elements are randomly placed on a horizontal plane and the Notification History charm clips outside the viewing window. The text in the Submit button is not vertically centered. The second image, shows the odd way tribes show when you scroll up in Snapzu; there is a partial second row as well.

XUL is on the way out. New features will focus on being "uniquely Firefox."