Mozilla Blocks Java Support in Firefox

Mozilla this week began blocking outdated versions of a Java plug-in in Firefox for some Mac users after calling the threat posed by the Flashback malware “evident and imminent.”

The move came two weeks after Mozilla disabled unpatched versions of Oracle’s software on Firefox for Windows.

Mozilla speeds up Firefox 9.0 with a lion interface

Though Mozilla's Firefox has been overshadowed of late by competition from Web behemoth Google's Google Chrome browser, you can hardly say the totally non-profit and of course completely free software developer is sitting still. With a new technology called "Type Inference," Mozilla has sped up JavaScript performance in its New Firefox 9 Web browser by over 35 percent, as demonstrated by several industry standard benchmark tests.

The new release of Firefox, which was announced today on the Mozilla Blog, also adds better support for Apple's latest desktop interface, Mac OS X Lion, including support for two-finger swipe gestures and a more Lion-like interface design.

Firefox 9 throws many features for Web site developers too. Their sites can now deliver large amounts of data to the browser using its support for "chunking XHR requests, allowing Web sites to display content as it’s downloaded instead of waiting for the entire download to complete," the post in the blog said. Developers can also use JavaScript to query the user's Do Not Track preference, while the release provides improved support for CSS (especially for text overflow conditions), HTML5, and MathML.


In preliminary testing, the new browser version posted speed gains on the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, Mozilla's own Kraken benchmark, and Google's V8 benchmark. The improvements amounted to 9 percent, 32 percent, and 36 percent, respectively.

With this release, Mozilla has also updated Firefox for Android. New for the mobile browser is tablet optimization for landscape and portrait orientation. Thumbnails now appear alongside the screen for each open tab, and swiping is supported. Users can also add site bookmarks to their Android home screen for app-like access.

A new Action Bar menu lets Android users access Firefox Preferences, Add-ons, and downloads. It also sports back, forward and bookmark buttons, according to the blog post.

Finally, the Android version of Firefox 9 lets sites access the mobile device's camera and supports HTML5 Form Validation, "which automatically validates Web site form fields like numbers, emails and URLs without developers needing to write a custom code or use a third-party library."

It's anyone's guess as to whether Firefox will be able to stem the onslaught from Google, but it clearly won't be for lack of constant improvements from the Mozilla team. You can try out Firefox 9 for yourself and into enter into life of high speed Web, by heading to the Firefox download page. The New Version are available for Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP; Mac OS X and Linux in dozens of languages.

Mozilla & Google seal new Firefox search deal

Mozilla and Google today said that they had struck a new search deal that will provide "significant revenue" to the maker of Firefox.

 "We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google," Mozilla said today in a statement. "This new agreement extends our long-term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years."

Under the deal, Mozilla will continue to offer Google as the default search engine in Firefox, which now controls about a quarter of the browser market. 

"Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come," said Alan, Google's head of search.

Mozilla declined to provide details of the new contract, citing confidentiality requirements. Later, a spokesman refused to say whether the deal was comparable to the previous agreement.

In 2010, the last year for which Mozilla has released financial statements, the Google contract generated 84% of Mozilla's $123 million in revenues, or approximately $103 million.

Google's contribution to Mozilla's bottom line in 2009 was about $89 million, or 86% of the browser maker's annual income.

The Mozilla-Google deal expired last month, but Mozilla did not alter Firefox's default search provider or the browser's start page, which displays Google's search page.

Questions about Mozilla's dependence on Google have been raised since the latter launched its own Web browser, Chrome, in September 2008. According to Internet metrics firms

StatCounter, in November 2011, Chrome owned a 25.7% share of the global browser usage market to edge into second place ahead of Firefox's 25.2%.

Last week a research testing company accused Google of attempting to quash Firefox using a triple-threat campaign to deny it revenues, withhold anti-malware services and -- through a Google-sponsored report -- claim that Chrome is significantly safer.

Google denied the second and third charges, and with the announcement today, has made the first moot.

Mozilla has made only minor steps to wean itself from Google. In October, the open-source organization launched a customized edition, dubbed "Firefox with Bing," that uses Microsoft's Bing search as the default engine.

As recently as two weeks ago, Mozilla declined to confirm that it had renewed the lucrative Google contract, saying then only that it was still negotiating with its browser rival.

Because of Mozilla's financial disclosure timetable, the impact of the new contract won't be apparent until the fall of 2013, when Mozilla issues revenue numbers for 2012.

The Brand New Avant Browser 2012 with More Exciting Features

The browser arena is often portrayed as a three-horse race among Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, but there's now a new option that aims to give users the best of all three worlds.

Open and Read PDF file in Firefox without downloading

Most of the Documents are in the PDF format and there are Majority of Softwares that allow you to view PDF files on your computer. 

Many a times we end up finding some files in PDF format which we don't want to download it into the System.

Internet Explorer more secure than Mozilla Firefox, Says Study

The Microsoft is much much happy now as they have a second position in their hands. Microsoft's Internet Explorer does a better job protecting systems from attackers who already have gained some degree of access than Mozilla's Firefox, and Google's Chrome trumps both of them, according to a new browser security study from Accuvant.

They came up with those results by analyzing the security features of the three most popular web browsers, but have decided not to employ the usual metrics: numbers of patched vulnerabilities, the severity of the flaws and the time it took for the developers to fix them.

As for the raw details, Accuvant's study didn't just focus on the sheer number of published vulnerabilities that a browser has at the time of testing. Rather, Accuvant presumed that a browser vulnerability is going to be exploited in some fashion by a third-party: The security testing, therefore, focused on the strength of a browser's anti-exploitation measures after-the-fact—"the software with the best anti-exploitation technologies is likely to be the most resistant to attack and is the most crucial consideration in browser security," Accuvant wrote.

While Google's Chrome browser won the day in Accuvant's research, the browser didn't sail through with a perfect score. Accuvant noted that Chrome, along with the other two browsers in the test, failed to adequately offer up strong enough URL blacklisting to pass Accuvant's examinations—a daily comparison of roughly 6,000 malware-related URLs against either Microsoft's URL Reporting Service or Google's Safe Browsing List.

"Gathering intelligence about malware URLs is generally performed by running honeypots and spamtraps, and harvesting URLs from malware captured in the wild. Since no authoritative source exists, it is likely that each organization gathering data is getting one part of the overall picture," Accuvant wrote. "Based on Accuvant's analysis, no party is performing this data collection comprehensively."

And while all three browsers employ address space layout randomization (ASLR), data execution prevention (DEP) and stack cookies (GS), Firefox does not implement sandboxing (the separation of running programs), plug-in security and Just-In-Time hardening (preventing javascript located on websites from compiling code that can be run on the target system).
That said, Chrome's apparent excellence in sandboxing, plug-in security, JIT hardening, and Address Space Layout Randomization, among other features, was enough to win it top honors. But Mozilla isn't letting Accuvant have the last word regarding the security of its browser.

5 Firefox Shopping Add-Ons To Save Money Online

People these days are becoming more careful when they shop online. In this holiday season you could use these 5 Firefox Add-Ons to save money to buy more gifts. These top add-ons will help you find the best deals for your shopping in the web.

Little Nemo Comic strip - Google's Biggest Doodle So Far

Today’s (October 15) interactive Google Doodle commemorates Little Nemo, the main character in the comics strips of Winsor McCay, published in the New York Herald and the New York American from 1905 to 1914.

Explore 'Hunger Games' with HTML 5

The Microsoft and Lionsgate have teamed upto bring the Hunger Games futuristic city of Capitol to life with the latest HTML 5 technology than using the Java for Internet Explorer. 

Microsoft Silverlight 5 Released

Microsoft released Silverlight 5, which could be the last major release of Microsoft’s application framework  for writing and running rich Internet applications.

Microsoft made available on December 9 for download the gold version of Silverlight 5, the latest version of its browser plug-in and Web, desktop and mobile development platform.

Silverlight Version 5 will be supported by Microsoft until 2021 — which is a much longer period of time than previous Silverlight releases have been supported.

• Download Silverlight 5 plug-in ~ Aprox. 7 MB
 

The version 5 release supports all the Previous platforms which it's previous versions of  Silverlight did: Windows, Mac.

 It also works with Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Silverlight 5’s  special  features include Hardware decode of H.264 media; extensionof the trusted application model to the browser; and graphics stack improvements with 3D support using the XNA programming interface on Windows.

Silverlight 5 was originally expected to be released to the Web in November 2011.

Read more at > Techbay.com

Winter Easter Egg: "Snow" In Google's Search

Google is full of fun with easter eggs hidden within search queries. Remember the barrel roll? Here’s one more that’s been discovered, just in time for the holiday season. If you are thinking of a snowy Christmas and winter season, the place to visit is one and only Google. Google surprises the visitors with Snow. To know how to get snow into google read more below.

Type ‘let it snow’ in search, and you’ll see snowflakes falling down the page. The first hit is the Christmas carol ‘let it snow’ by Dean Martin (which we’ve embedded below). Eventually your search results page will cloud over and the search button turns into a defrost button to clear out the clouds.

Type "Let it snow" into Google, and the search engine will reward you with some lovely flurries. Digital snow flakes flutter into view, while pixelated frost sneaks in from the top and bottom of the screen. Pretty soon, the effect fogs up the entire window, allowing you to draw messages in the virtual frost. You won't be able to click on any of the search results, but don't worry. The normal search icon turns into a "Defrost" button. One click will wipe away this icy veneer.

"Let it snow" stands as Google's latest Easter egg, a term for little secrets hidden in movies, video games, or websites. The search giant has sprinkled dozens of these little treats into its various pages. So, don't go back to work just yet!

Here’s a list of some of our favorite easter eggs over the year. Enjoy!

In the Last month, searchers discovered "Do a barrel roll." Typing those four words into Google flips the entire browser.

Did You ever searched for the word  "askew"? What about typing in "number of horns on a unicorn + the loneliest number"?  Enjoy ! 

And, of course, Google has some more overt surprises, such as its regular Google doodles. And there are still plenty of other hidden gags.

Please Kindly notice that  If "let it snow" isn't working, check your browser. The trick will not work in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8, nor in older versions of Firefox or Safari. Several of Google's recent Easter eggs use HTML 5, code that only runs in up-to-date Web browsers. So, what better time to do something boring – like update software – than to take a moment right now in order to do something fun – like enjoying all these Google Easter eggs.

HOW TO CHANGE FACEBOOK THEME?

Many Of You get bored by the same thing daily, So we are here to help you. Today we will help you to change the Facebook Layout.

Facebook with Green Layout

Social networking websites are used by many peoples, to make profile attractive we are in need for customizing by fonts, themes and etc."Facebook" is one of the leading social networking website, but it naturally does not allow users to customize their profiles like Myspace.

Echofon: A Twitter App for your Windows Desktop

Are you a Twitter User? If you uses your Twitter everywhere, Why couldn't you use it outside your web browser?

Hackers Defeat Google Chrome in 5 minutes

Hackers beat Google Chrome for the first time in the annual competition to test the security of one of the most popular web browser, Google Chrome. 

Send Web Page Via Email in One Click

Most of the users when they want to send the link of any web page to to someone, they usually copy the url from the address bar, log in their email inbox, create new email, paste the link, send the email and then finally log-out or use some sharing widget to Share with the same steps said above.

PDF: The World's Digital Document {INFOGRAPHIC}

PDF [Portable Document Format] files are mostly used as they are more practical. They are easy to navigate and read. In fact you need not use the Adobe Acrobat as there are lots of other services to create PDF files, such as Microsoft Office.