Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’

Firefox 4.0 GUI Evolution – Get a Taste

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version 4.0, and various concepts and sketches ha… (more…)

Firefox Bug Used to Harass Entire IRC Network

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

A group of self-declared Internet trolls, called the GNAA, has used an old but obscure attack method to wreak havoc on the Freenode IRC network. Users were forced to execute IRC commands after visiting maliciously crafted Web pages.

The vulnerability leveraged in this attack dates back to 2001 and affects the HTML form implementation i… (more…)