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Tweet Firefox to have Flash Player in a sandbox Adobe is offering a public beta version of Flash Player for Firefox with a protected mode. This is good news for Firefox users. Recently, the German administration recommended the use of sandbox protection for web browsers – something that Firefox didn’t have, although this will soon [...]

Tweet The death of Firefox It doesn’t look good for Firefox: Almost every month for the last three years, Firefox has lost ground to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. For most of 2009 the trend was fairly straight as it fended off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and today Firefox has [...]

Tweet Mozilla Asked to Revoke Trustwave CA for Allowing SSL Eavesdropping Even though Trustwave has revoked the SSL certificate that allowed a company to eavesdrop on SSL traffic, the Mozilla community wants the CA removed as a trusted authority. After a certificate authority (CA) admitted to issuing a digital certificate that was used to monitor [...]

Tweet Trustwave admits issuing man-in-the-middle digital certificate; Mozilla debates punishment The issuing of subordinate root certificates to companies, so they can snoop on SSL-encrypted traffic, is a common industry practice IDG News Service – Digital Certificate Authority (CA) Trustwave revealed that it has issued a digital certificate that enabled an unnamed private company to spy [...]

Tweet Internet Explorer Regains Market Share From Firefox, Chrome “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” says Internet Explorer, as Microsoft’s default Windows web browser regains some of the market share previously lost to its major competitors Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. All versions of Internet Explorer combined together have gained a percentage point [...]