How time flies – the latest four-weekly Firefox update is out.
Tag Archives: Firefox
Firefox to tell you if sites are shortening your passwords
Mozilla is fixing a longstanding password problem to alert users when their password exceeds the maximum length allowed.
Firefox 76.0 released with critical security patches – update now
Firefox’s latest version is out, with new password management features and a raft of security fixes.
Update Firefox again – more RCEs and an Android “takeover” bug too
Hot on the heels of Firefox’s emergency update over the weekend are the four-weekly fixes that Mozilla had in train already. Get ’em now!
Twitter warns users – Firefox might hold on to private messages
Whose fault was it – Twitter or Firefox? (It’s fixed now, to be clear.)
Firefox zero day in the wild: patch now!
Mozilla just pushed out an update for its Firefox browser to patch a security hole that was already being exploited in the wild.
COVID-19 forces browser makers to continue supporting TLS 1.0
In one of the strangest stories of the year, the COVID-19 virus has halted plans by major browsers to drop support for the aging and insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols.
Firefox 76 will have option to enforce HTTPS-only connections
The aim is to block the browser from reaching the small number of sites that cling to HTTP, closing security risks.
Firefox is dropping FTP support
Heads up, Firefox users who rely on FTP: the browser is eliminating support for this venerable protocol.
Tor browser fixes bug that allows JavaScript to run when disabled
The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.