It’s been a few months since I wrote about the work our plugin check team has been doing, but there are a couple of pretty excellent pieces of news I’d … Read more
Privacy isn’t always easy. We’re close to landing some changes in the Firefox development tree that will fix a privacy leak that browsers have been struggling with for some time. … Read more
Mozilla has accelerated its timetable and released Firefox 3.6.2 ahead of schedule. This release contains a number of security fixes, including a fix to Secunia Advisory SA38608 which was previously … Read more
[This post originally appeared on Mozilla Developer News] We hate crashes. When Firefox crashes, we try to get you back on your feet as quickly as possible, but we’d much … Read more
Mike Shaver has posted an update on the situation surrounding our blocking of the .Net Framework Assistant and WPF plugin. In it, he discusses the current state of affairs, the … Read more
A little over a month ago, I talked about a project we had started to inform users when their plugins were out of date. This is a really important project … Read more
I will be leaving Mozilla at the end of the year. I am sad to be leaving, but I am excited to go work on something I have always been … Read more
Mozilla has been working with security researcher and analyst Rich Mogull for a few months now on a project to develop a metrics model to measure the relative security of … Read more
Firefox 2.0.0.7 was released this afternoon to patch the QuickTime issue described here. This will protect Firefox users from the public critical security vulnerability until a patch is available from … Read more
Claudio Santambrogio at Opera posted that they have been running the Mozilla JavaScript fuzzer and as of Friday have found and fixed 4 issues with it. I am thrilled. This … Read more
Mike Shaver (Director of Ecosystem Development at Mozilla) handed his business card to Robert Hansen (RSnake) on Wednesday night at Black Hat. On it he wrote “ten f—ing days.” When … Read more
Mike Shaver and I just finished presenting “Building and Breaking the Browser”at Blackhat today in Las Vegas. We discussed the methods and tools that Mozilla uses to secure the Firefox … Read more