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The New Firefox 2.0.0.9 Plays Well with Windows Vista

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

A new version of Firefox is available for download. On October 19, Mozilla made available an update to its open source browser, taking the version build from 2.0.0.7 to 2.0.0.8. The version numbers are not a clear indication of the evolution between the two Firefox variants. According to Mozilla, over 200 issues impacting the Firefox [...]

Firefox 2.0 and IE7 – Attack Vectors for Windows Vista

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

The .ANI file format vulnerability impacting Windows Animated Cursor Handling has gotten a lot of play lately. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the Windows Animated Cursor Handling flaw is the first pure blood, pure bred Windows Vista critical vulnerability. As I have mentioned, before there are two vectors of attack [...]

Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

PERSPECTIVE With Microsoft not having launched a new Web browser since 2001, nor a new service pack since August 2004, Internet Explorer arguably had the longest road to travel to be ready for Windows Vista. Firefox, on the other hand, has had much more frequent point releases, with version 1.5 made available in November 2005.
But [...]