Articles in “Announcements”

Update on Plugin Activation

To provide a better and safer experience on the Web, we have been working to move Firefox away from plugins. After much testing and iteration, we determined that Firefox would … Read more

Rebooting Security Engagement at Mozilla

We recently announced a reboot of our efforts to engage with security contributors at Mozilla. Today our strongest and most lasting contributor relationships are with individuals searching for bug bounties. … Read more

DigiNotar Removal Follow Up

Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted … Read more

Plugin Check for Everyone

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

Plugging the CSS History Leak

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

Firefox 3.6.2 Released

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

Mozilla Plugin Check Now Live

A little over a month ago, I talked about a project we had started to inform users when their plugins were out of date.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

Leaving Mozilla

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 Security Metrics Project

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 now available

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