Firefox 3 Beta 2 has been officially released over at Mozilla.
[Improved in Beta 2!] Firefox 3 Beta 2 includes approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.
MSDN’s Channel9 and the IEBlog both confirm the new version of IE, IE8, will pass the ACID2 Test!
We put Apple’s browser to the test and discovered that it falls short of Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Far from being “the world’s best browser” as Apple claims, Safari 3 suffers from usability deficiencies, text readability issues, and security flaws. It’s not all bad, though.
It took security engineers perhaps less than two hours yesterday to introduce Apple’s surprise entry in the field of Windows browsers to the big, cruel world of exploits and vulnerabilities, following its introduction yesterday morning at WWDC. As a result, much of the clout Safari had received as the secure browsing alternative is lost
Polish hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on serious flaws in fully patched versions of IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox 2.0…
I don’t know what to say…this is huge! This is a very large, easy to exploit vulnerability that exposes a site’s cookies to any malicious web site on the net.
A harmless proof-of-concept exploit can be found here.
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ierace/
Wait…i’m getting a vision…yes, it’s coming clearer…a Microsoft Security Patch is in your future.
I couldn’t help myself with this one. It’s been a very long day and my son walks in and says, “Pull up a browser and go to http://www.msfirefox.com/…” I couldn’t help but laugh…
Enjoy.
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