Mozilla updated their Wiki website with a new ‘roadmap’ what the Browser will get in 2018. The list looks like they want to ripp-off certain functions from other Browsers. Mozilla Firefox finally reveals that it has a identity problem with such a list.
Category: Browser
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Opera 52 was released today and it comes with some neat changes regarding it’s integrated ads-blocking mechanism and also introduced a new feature which allows you to duplicate multiple page addresses in one process. The official Opera Blog page hasn’t updated it yet, but it’s expected in the coming days – in the meantime you can receive the update via the automatically updater.
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Firefox becomes more and more a PR GAG and Mozilla doesn’t deliver what they promise – a secure Browser – so you might want to switch to Chrome, or a fork like Chromium instead in order to get a ‘clean’ Browser. However, you can tweak several about:flags options in order to harden your Chrome even more.
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What Martin Brinkmann didn’t wrote in his post is that Firefox 60 new possible feature isn’t there to secure the browser, it’s there to submit the telemetry directly to Cloudflare which is a in my eyes a no-go. This would act like a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) in order to collect which pages you visited and would reveal a lot of more information to Mozilla than Google ever did in Chrome.
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It seems like the integrated Master Password system from Firefox & Thunderbird are since over 9 years weak against known brute-force attacks and still remain unfixed. The findings are based on the work of Justin Dolske & Wladimir Palant.
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Mozilla just released a security bugfix release straight after the final release. The new version fixes several security related issue discovered originally by the Pwn2Own conference.
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Mozilla today released the final version of Firefox Quantum, Version 59 brings several improvements related to the security aspect and also some improvements from existent utilities like the screenshot functionality.
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The Tor Blog just released another versions update for it’s Browser which introduced several security updates, interface changes and improvements based on user reports. As always you can find the changelog since the last stable release, 7.0.11 right here. You should get the automatic update notification already or in the coming hours.
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Sometimes you only can hate Mozilla and sometimes we all could kiss them, I think the second category applies to this news – there going to fight the annoying popups which you might see on several pages, right now there is no way to disallow them except installing a popup blocker (ad-blocker) or disallow any third-party frames in about:config.
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