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pubsub.blastersklan.com / slashdot · Wednesday, 14 February - 09:40 edit

Less than a week after naming Laura Chambers as interim CEO, Firefox's maker Mozilla said it is cutting about 60 jobs, or 5% of its workforce. The cuts are primarily in the product development organization. Bloomberg reports: "We're scaling back investment in some product areas in order to focus on areas that we feel have the greatest chance of success," Mozilla said in a statement. "We intend to re-prioritize resources against products like Firefox Mobile, where there's a significant opportunity to grow and establish a better model for the industry." Mozilla last cut a significant number of jobs four years ago at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The not-for-profit company, which competes with Alphabet Inc.'s Google Chrome, Apple Inc.'s Safari and Microsoft Corp.'s Edge, has been grappling with sliding market share of its Firefox web browser in recent years. So far in 2024, the tech sector has cut 32,000 jobs.

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pubsub.blastersklan.com / omgubuntu · Sunday, 11 February - 18:00 edit

Tab previews are in the works for Mozilla Firefox. In current versions of the browser, hovering your mouse over a non-focused browser tab shows a small tooltip that displays the web page title — and that’s it. While this is handy, especially if you have a ton of open tabs (including many from the same site) and are able to read enough of the tab title to distinguish which tab is for which page, you may be more visually-orientated. Enter tab previews. In the latest Firefox 123 beta builds Mozilla devs have added a new flag. When this is enabled […]

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iPhone : voici les 11 navigateurs qui pourront remplacer Safari en France

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 26 January - 14:18

[Info Numerama] Au lendemain de l'annonce de sa mise en conformité avec le Digital Markets Act européen, Apple a communiqué à Numerama la liste des navigateurs qui seront proposés par défaut lors de la première configuration d'un iPhone en France. 12 choix seront possibles.

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Le saviez-vous ? Il y a une nouvelle option dans Firefox pour échapper aux traqueurs

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 22 November - 09:57

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La version 120 de Firefox est arrivée le 22 novembre. Parmi les changements à noter figure un nouvel outil, qui permet de copier un lien en éliminant tous les paramètres servant au marketing et au suivi de l'internaute. [Lire la suite]

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Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 2 November - 17:38 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Mitchell Baker, Mozilla CEO, at a conference in 2019. (credit: Horacio Villalobos / Contributor | Corbis News )

This week, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker rose as a key figure in Google's defense against the Justice Department's monopoly claims. Providing a video deposition for the landmark trial, Baker testified that Mozilla's popular browser Firefox tried to switch from using Google as a default search engine but reverted back after a "failed" bet on Yahoo made it clear that Google was Firefox users' preferred search engine.

According to Bloomberg , Mozilla's temporary switch to Yahoo is "the only situation in which a browser has switched the default search engine provider." This makes Baker's testimony potentially very powerful because it's a clear example that backs up Google's core argument that its search engine wins default status due to its quality, not due to anticompetitive behaviors.

"The evidence will show that the reasons behind Mozilla’s switch back to Google after selecting Yahoo as the default search engine for its Firefox browser confirms," Google's pre-trial brief said. "Google wins competitions that browser suppliers create for choosing their default search service by offering the best product at the best price. That is quintessential 'competition on the merits.'" In another court filing, Google argued , "there is no evidence of coercive conduct."

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22-year-old Firefox bug fixed by university student with 2-day-old account

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 10 October, 2023 - 18:55 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Some bugs are just perennially out of reach. (credit: Getty Images)

Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments , and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips .

"If I mouseover a toolbar link, and wait for a second, a little yellow box with the description of the link appears. If I now use command-tab to move Mozilla to the background, the little yellow box stays there, in the foreground. The only way to get rid of it is to put mozilla in the foreground again, and move the mouse off the toolbar," Price wrote on June 2. There were a few other bugs related to this issue, but Price set down a reproducible issue, confirmed by many others in the weeks to come—and months to come, years to come, and more than two decades to come.

Firefox tooltip lingering over an Applications window in Mac OS X, captured 12 years ago. (credit: edrazaba / Mozilla )

Over the years, people would check in on the thread or mark other bugs as duplicates of this one issue. It would occasionally seem fixed, only for coders and commenters to discover that it was just a little different in different versions or that prior fixes were seemingly accidental. Sometimes it seemed to appear in Windows or Linux, too. One commenter, denis, noted that at the 21-year mark : "I'm kinda partial to let it be forever. It feels like a relic from the past."

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New 0-day in Chrome and Firefox will likely plague other software

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 28 September, 2023 - 21:23

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A critical zero-day vulnerability Google reported on Wednesday in its Chrome browser is opening the Internet to a new chapter of Groundhog Day.

Like a critical zero-day Google disclosed on September 11 , the new exploited vulnerability doesn’t affect just Chrome. Already, Mozilla has said that its Firefox browser is vulnerable to the same bug, which is tracked as CVE-2023-5217. And just like CVE-2023-4863 from 17 days ago, the new one resides in a widely used code library for processing media files, specifically those in the VP8 format.

Pages here and here list hundreds of packages for Ubuntu and Debian alone that rely on the library known as libvpx . Most browsers use it, and the list of software or vendors supporting it reads like a who’s who of the Internet, including Skype, Adobe, VLC, and Android.

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Chrome, Firefox, Edge et les autres navigateurs ont la même alerte critique de sécurité

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 14 September, 2023 - 08:29

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Une vulnérabilité concerne tous les principaux navigateurs web, comme Chrome, Firefox et Edge. Les correctifs sont toutefois disponibles depuis peu. Il est hautement recommandé de faire la mise à jour dès que possible. [Lire la suite]

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With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 13 September, 2023 - 22:11

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End users, admins, and researchers better brace yourselves: The number of apps being patched for zero-day vulnerabilities has skyrocketed this month and is likely to get worse in the following weeks.

People have worked overtime in recent weeks to patch a raft of vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, with offerings from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Adobe, and Cisco all being affected since the beginning of the month. The total number of zero-days in September so far is 10, compared with a total of 60 from January through August, according to security firm Mandiant. The company tracked 55 zero-days in 2022 and 81 in 2021.

The number of zero-days tracked this month is considerably higher than the monthly average this year. A sampling of the affected companies and products includes iOS and macOS, Windows, Chrome, Firefox, Acrobat and Reader, the Atlas VPN, and Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance Software and its Firepower Threat Defense. The number of apps is likely to grow because a single vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code when users open a booby-trapped image included in a message or web page is present in possibly hundreds of apps.

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