Una vulnerabilità di sicurezza in Firefox 16 ha fatto si che Mozilla rilasciasse un update, Firefox 16.0.1
Update (Oct 11, 2012)Issue:
- An update to Firefox for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux was released at 12pm PT on Oct 11. Users will be automatically updated and new downloads via http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/ will receive the updated version (16.0.1).
- A fix for the Android version of Firefox was released at 9pm PT on Oct 10.
Mozilla is aware of a security vulnerability in the current release version of Firefox (version 16). We are actively working on a fix and plan to ship updates tomorrow. Firefox version 15 is unaffected.
Impact:
The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters. At this time we have no indication that this vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
Mozilla ha annunciato il rilascio di una nuova versione del proprio browser per Android, sistema operativo per dispositivi mobili
As a pioneer of the Web, Mozilla unlocked the Web experience on the desktop with Firefox and we are doing it again in mobile. We’re proud to announce a new Firefox for Android is now available for download in the Google Play store. The new Firefox for Android is a snappy and dynamic upgrade to mobile browsing that makes it faster and easier to get where you want to go on the Web.
La nuova versione di Firefox per Android è disponibile per il download nel Google Play store.
Mozilla ha rilasciato la versione 10.0.2 del suo browser web Firefox. Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina
Changelog:
- FIXED: Security fixes
- FIXED: Java applets sometimes caused text input to become unresponsive
- NEW: Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default
- NEW: The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back
- NEW: Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented
- NEW: CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported
- HTML5: New element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties
- HTML5: Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen
- DEVELOPER: We've added IndexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification
- DEVELOPER: Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector
- FIXED: Some users may experience a crash when moving bookmarks
- FIXED:Silverlight video may not play on some Macintosh hardware
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Most notable updates include, Linux 3.0.4 and GParted 0.9.1. We have dropped the legacy PCManFM for PCManFM-Mod, and man is it nice. Lots a little PCManfm bugs that have existed for years are now quashed. Xfburn replaces SimpleBurn for burning CDROM/DVD media. Chntpw was added to the boot menu. Adding Luxi fonts improved international language support. Although it's not the newest released, Firefox is updated to firefox-6.0.2 and is compiled for i486 (official branding included) with permission from the Mozilla Foundation. OpenSSH is updated to 5.9p1 with the ecdsa key created by default.
Download da questa pagina, o direttamente da questo link: pmagic-6.7.iso-i686.zip (179 MB).
Rilasciata la versione 7.0 di Thunderbird, client email sviluppato da Mozilla
The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:
- Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 7 engine
- Several user interface fixes and improvements
- Several fixes to attachment handling
- Ability to print a summary of selected email messages
- Platform improvements to Address Book
- Fixed several security issues
- Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance and stability
Note di rilascio a questa pagina, download da questa pagina per sistemi Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.
Rilasciata la nuova versione del browser di Mozilla: Firefox 7.0
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
- Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
- Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
- Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
- The 'http://' URL prefix is now hidden by default
- Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
- Added support for the Web Timing specification
- Enhanced support for MathML
- The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
- Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina, download da questa pagina.
Poco meno di due mesi dopo il rilascio di Firefox 5 Mozilla ha rilasciato la successiva versione del suo browser Firefox 6.
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
- The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting
- Streamlined the look of the site identity block
- Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
- Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
- Added support for window.matchMedia
- Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
- Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
- Improved usability of the Web Console
- Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
- Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
La lista completa dei cambiamenti è disponibile a questa pagina. Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina, download da questa pagina.
Mozilla ha rilasciato la versione 6.0 del suo client email Thunderbird.
The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:
- Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 6 engine
- Several theme improvements for Windows 7
- Support for Windows 7 Jump lists
- Several fixes when importing email from Microsoft Outlook
- Default mail client check now works with newer Linux distributions
- Various other user interface fixes and improvements
- Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security
Note di rilascio a questa pagina, download da questa pagina.
Annunciato il rilascio di Gentoo Linux 11.2 LiveDVD. Download a partire da questa pagina per sistemi x86, da questa pagina per sistemi amd.
The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below.
- System packages include: Linux kernel 3.0 (with Gentoo patches), Accessibility Support with Speakup, Bash 4.2, GLIBC 2.13-r2, GCC 4.5.2, Binutils 2.21.1, Python 2.7.2 and 3.2, Perl 5.12.4, and more.
- Desktop environments and window managers include: KDE 4.7.0, GNOME 3.0.0, Xfce 4.8, Enlightenment 1.0.8, Openbox 3.5.0, Fluxbox 1.3.1, XBMC 10.1 Awesome 3.4.10, and LXDE-Meta 0.5.5.
- Office, graphics, and productivity applications include: LibreOffice 3.3.3, XEmacs 21.5.31 GVim 7.3.244, Abiword 2.8.6, Scribus 1.3.9, GIMP 2.6.11, Inkscape 0.48.2, Blender 2.57, XSane 0.998, and much more.
- Web browsers include: Mozilla Firefox 5.0, Chromium 13.0 Arora 0.11.0, Opera 11.50.1074, Epiphany 3.0.4, Seamonkey 2.2, and other favorites.
- Communication tools include: Pidgin 2.9.0, Quassel 0.7.2, Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0, Claws Mail 3.7.9, QTwitter 0.10.0, Irssi 0.8.15, and many more.
- Development applications include: KDevelop 4.2.3, KDESvn 1.5.5, Qt-creator 2.2.1, Bluefish 2.0.3, and many more.
- Multimedia applications include: Amarok 2.4.3, MPlayer 1.0_rc4, MPlayer2 2.0, DVDAuthor 0.6.14, LAME 3.98.4, FFmpeg 0.6.90, GNOME-MPlayer 1.0.4, SMPlayer 0.6.9, and several others.
Mozilla ha annunciato il rilascio della versione 5.0 del suo client di posta elettronica Thunderbird. Thunderbird 5.0 è basato sullo stesso motore di rendering Gecko di Firefox 5 e include un nuovo Add-ons Manager.
The latest version of Thunderbird includes more than 390 improvements and performance enhancements that make Thunderbird more responsive, faster to start up and easier to use. Thunderbird delivers several improvements to some favorite features such as RSS feeds, Attachment management, and Tabs which can now be reordered and dragged into a new window.
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