Tag: internet explorer

Mozilla confirms 0-day Firefox flaw

Posted by – 23/03/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

The Mozilla Foundation has confirmed the existence of a critical zero-day vulnerability in its popular Firefox web-browser – but says a fix won’t arrive before the end of the month.

Posting on its official security blog, the Foundation confirmed a vulnerability which it has “determined to be critical and [which] could result in remote code execution by an attacker.

The good news? The Foundation has already developed a fix, which is currently undergoing quality assurance testing prior to a general roll-out. The bad news? That roll-out isn’t due for at least a week, potentially leaving Firefox users vulnerable to attack.

Google sounds death knell for IE 6

Posted by – 26/02/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

Google is continuing its campaign to gently encourage users to upgrade from the severely out-of-date Internet Explorer 6 to a more modern web browser that properly supports web standards and features such as HTML 5 – and it’s using YouTube as its primary weapon in the fight.

As reported over on ReadWriteWeb, the advertising giant is looking to end support for Microsoft’s aging Internet Explorer 6 web browser – the default browser in Windows XP, replaced by Internet Explorer 7 in Vista – and hopes to encourage users to upgrade via a nag screen.

What is “chromebar”?

Posted by – 05/02/2010

If you run a website or blog, and have been getting searches/referrers by the name of “chromebar”, I think I’ve finally figured out what it is.

It’s the web-based “application” that Stumbleupon use to deliver webpages to users who don’t have the Stumbleupon toolbar installed in their browser.