We are always looking for ways to help protect people better from the constant threat of malicious software. For years Firefox has utilized Google’s Safe Browsing phishing and malware protection to help keep you from accidentally visiting dangerous sites. This … Continue reading
Firefox developer builds (“Nightly“) are now using a new certificate verification library we’ve been working on for some time, and this code is on track to be released as part of Firefox 31 in July. As we’ve all been painfully reminded recently (Heartbleed, … Continue reading
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 no longer activate most plugins by default and instead opted … Continue reading
Web developers need better tools to help them debug security issues. The Web Console, part of the Firefox Developer Tools, shows errors and warnings filtered into different categories. Firefox 23 adds a new category of messages to the Web Console: … Continue reading
Update – August 5, 2013 Issue Mozilla was notified on August 4, 2013 of a potential security vulnerability with Firefox 17 (current general release is Firefox 22). Upon investigation we confirmed the vulnerability and determined the root of the issue … Continue reading
Content Security Policy (usually abbreviated as CSP) is a way for web pages to restrict the sites allowed to include content within the page. It also can restrict whether inline scripts are allowed to run and inline styles/CSS are allowed … Continue reading
We recently started measuring C/C++ code coverage on mozilla-central again and documented the various efforts around it in a new MDN article.
Update – Aug 31, 2012 Yesterday Oracle released a patch for the critical vulnerabilities identified within Java. Visit the Mozilla Plugin Check webpage to find out if your Java plugin needs to be updated: https://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/ Additional information from Oracle can … Continue reading
In the past half year I learned quite a lot about the different fuzzing approaches that security researchers and contributors use on Firefox. Although information on the subject should be public, a lot of it seems hard to find for … Continue reading
Recently, Mozilla responded to an imminent threat to Firefox users who have an outdated Java plugin installed: Vulnerable versions of the plugin were blocked automatically (see blog post). Since then, I’ve been asked a few times why this is important; … Continue reading
