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2008-07-09T03:49:00.000-07:00

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Weighted Contributed Method

2008-05-08T16:23:00.000-07:00

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Firefox's Mitchell Baker -- the anniversary interview in full

2008-04-06T22:08:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year, I interviewed Mitchell Baker in London for an article in the Technology section of the Guardian. We chatted on too long, and because she was so interesting, I thought I'd put a rough transcript of the rest online for Mozilla's 10th anniversary on March 31. Ahem. But Mitchell said the idea was to celebrate the anniversary all year, so it's still timely....There's around 3,000 words on why Mozilla doesn't want to get into a death-spiral with Microsoft, and has more important things to do than chase market share, such as moving the whole web forward. Also, why Mozilla isn't using Firefox to plug Thunderbird more heavily, and why Firefox is finally taking a serious look at the mobile business.A bit of background: Mitchell Baker joined Netscape's legal department in 1994, and has been involved with the browser ever since: at Netscape, at AOL, and at Mozilla, which she helped set up. She became chief executive of Mozilla Corporation in 2005 -- a job she's just passed to her chief operating officer John Lilly -- and she's now chairman of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation. Earlier this year, I interviewed Mitchell Baker in London for an article in the Technology section of the Guardian. We chatted on too long, and because she was so interesting, I thought I'd put a rough transcript of the rest online for Mozilla's 10th anniversary on March 31. Ahem. But Mitchell said the idea was to celebrate the anniversary all year, so it's still timely....There's around 3,000 words on why Mozilla doesn't want to get into a death-spiral with Microsoft, and has more important things to do than chase market share, such as moving the whole web forward. Also, why Mozilla isn't using Firefox to plug Thunderbird more heavily, and why Firefox is finally taking a serious look at the mobile business.A bit of background: Mitchell Baker joined Netscape's legal department in 1994, and has been involved with the browser ever since: at Netscape, at AOL, and at Mozilla, which she helped set up. She became chief executive of Mozilla Corporation in 2005 -- a job she's just passed to her chief operating officer John Lilly -- and she's now chairman of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla..... More Details>>

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2007-09-24T17:53:00.000-07:00

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JSTL and Expression Language

2007-06-28T16:07:00.000-07:00

JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) is a custom tags collection that executes common functionalities in web applications, including iteration and selection, data formatting, XML manipulation and database access. JSTL allows JSP developers to focus on development specific necessities, instead of reinventing the wheel.

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An expression language.
Standard actions libraries.
Validators (2 validators).

What is Expression Language (EL)?

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Security Alert : Major IE6, IE7 and Firefox Flaws

2007-06-08T01:18:00.001-07:00

Hot on the heels of the my last post, comes news of another major flaw in fully patched versions of IE6 and IE7, as well as an equally severe glitch in Firefox.

...a JavaScript flaw in fully patched IE 6 and 7... can allow an attacker to fiddle with a document's Document Object Model—a model for representing HTML or XML and related formats.

The result can be cookie stealing or cookie resetting, browser crash, page hijacking, code injection or memory corruption.

The Firefox flaw is also in JavaScript:

[It] can lead to interception of keystrokes and content spoofing, among other things. Mozilla said that the flaw allows attackers to display "offensive, misleading or dangerous contents on trusted sites" or to spoof login prompts. An attacker can also track user behavior, such as timing when a victim arrived and departed at a site...

Full details here, along with demos.

Firefox 3 Alpha 5 Hits the Streets

2007-06-08T01:16:00.001-07:00

Mozilla today made an early testing release of its Firefox 3 browser available for download, and this alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks.

According to Mike Connor, director of Firefox development at Mozilla, the Places feature in Firefox 3 Alpha 5 represents the biggest upcoming change for the new browser version. With Places, your bookmarks and browsing history are stored in a SQLite database, which allows for better performance, more stability, and other features. (The previous alpha release implemented Places for browsing history.)

Places won't look much different initially, and in my brief look at the Gran Paradiso alpha, the user-facing portion of Places didn't appear to function any differently at all. "People with very large history or bookmark files will notice a big difference [in performance]," says Mike Connor, director of Firefox development at Mozilla. The database can be queried as needed, he says, rather than having to keep the full history or list of bookmarks in memory.

Going Places

Places will also be less likely to lose data in the event of program or Windows crashes. In fact, according to Connor, "We haven't figured out how to make Places lose data." For backwards compatibility and manual backups, Firefox 3 will save bookmarks in the traditional bookmarks.htm file when it closes.

For other bookmark upgrades, Mozilla is planning to enable bookmark tagging, and is considering building its own synchronization client into the browser capable of backing up and sharing bookmarks. Today, extensions from Foxmarks and del.icio.us can sync bookmarks; Connor says Mozilla is in talks with both groups to ensure their services continue to work with Firefox 3.

If you're thinking about trying the alpha, keep in mind that it's early testing software and not meant for everyday browsing. At a minimum, be sure to back up your bookmarks before installing it. The download is available from Mozilla.

Other Firefox 3 updates will include improvements to password handling, so that users won't be prompted to save credentials until after a successful login, and better add-on management, according to Connor. One change I had personally been hoping for, moving the downloads manager from a separate (and annoying) window to something more like an All-in-one Sidebar pane, probably won't make it into Firefox 3, he says. For a list of all the planned upgrades, see the Firefox 3 product requirements document.

These changes will no doubt please Mozilla fans, but don't get your hopes up for a radical step forward with the new Firefox 3, like the change from IE 6 to IE 7. Aside from Places and some support for offline caching, Mozilla doesn't have a "big killer feature" planned for the next Firefox, Connor says.

Instead, he promises, "It will all feel like an organic growth."

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2007-06-06T06:47:00.000-07:00

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Firefox 3 Public Beta Due In Spring

2007-03-13T19:41:00.000-07:00

New features will include standardised support for running Web apps like mail and office suites while disconnected from the Internet, and support for Places, a redesigned bookmarks and history manager..

Mozilla plans to release public beta of Version 3 of its Firefox browser in late spring, with added features to include standardised support for running Web apps like mail and office suites when disconnected from the Internet. The new version will also offer Places, a revamped bookmarks and history manager that was bumped from the current version of Firefox, Version 2.

Mozilla expects to ship the final version of Firefox 3, codenamed Gran Paradiso, in the autumn, said Brendan Eich, chief technical officer for Mozilla.

Users of Web applications like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, or Google Apps Premier Edition will be able to download their data, disconnect from the Internet, and work offline, if the application publishers make a few simple changes to their code to comply with Firefox 3's APIs for running applications offline.

Offline operation would help users looking for alternatives to expensive Microsoft Office and other desktop applications. Many vendors offer online, browser-based alternatives to Office, including the previously mentioned Google apps, as well as software from companies like Zoho and Ajax13. But the problem with those applications is they currently require users to have an Internet connection.

Firefox's current strategy is reminiscent of a failed strategy by Netscape Communications, more than 10 years ago, to make the operating system irrelevant by building an OS within the browser.

But it's different this time around, in that Mozilla isn't seeking to make an entire operating system within the browser, just enough to run Web apps. And users are now seeking technology that will allow them to run applications on their own data without being tied to a single computer, Eich said.

Firefox is based on open source Netscape code.

Places is a revision to bookmarks and history functionality. Rather than storing bookmarks and history in flat files, as Firefox does now, the data will be stored in a SQLite database.

Places will automatically organise bookmarks, as an aid to users who find it difficult to organise and find their bookmarks on their own. For example, Firefox will automatically generate a folder containing all of a user's most-frequently-visited sites, Eich said.

The Mozilla Wiki describes other plans for Firefox 3, including automatic synching of browser bookmarks with bookmarking services such as del.icio.us and shadows, improved tabbed browsing and improved password manager.

Firefox has been downloaded more than 300 million times since its initial, 9 November 2004 release, but in January it lost market share for the first time since in more than a year.

Further out, Mozilla is looking to add support for more advanced 2-D Web applications that now require proprietary Flash, and, even further out, 3-D Web applications, for data visualisation, games like World of Warcraft, and virtual worlds like Second Life.

Mozilla wrestles with Firefox 3.0 security moves

2007-03-13T19:38:00.000-07:00

Mozilla is still wrestling with adding a security feature to Firefox that its browser rival, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, uses on Windows Vista to keep malware from hijacking computers.

In Vista, IE7 uses a technique Microsoft calls Protected Mode -- another name for "low rights" -- that blocks disk access to all but a temporary-files folder. The idea is that if an exploit -- a drive-by download, for instance -- attacks IE7 through a browser vulnerability, it can't install code on the PC's drive.

Last October, after Firefox developers had spent several days at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters with the Vista team, a Mozilla engineer said they had come away with thoughts on how Firefox might take advantage of Vista's low-rights features. "We spent a while talking to members of both the UAC team and the IE team about ideas on how to structure our app for the lowest permission level," Vladimir Vukićević wrote at the time in a blog entry.

Now, however, Mozilla seems uncertain about whether that security strategy is smart.

"We're still trying to figure out the mechanics of what we can do and we can't do," acknowledged Mike Conner, director of Firefox development. "And there are two sides to this idea of Protected Mode. Microsoft said it's not a complete security sandbox, and some people are saying if [attackers] can work around it, it's not worth doing.

"The big thing for me is where we draw the convenience vs. security line," he added.

Conner argued that some of Vista's security provisions, including User Account Control (UAC) and low-rights modes, can be sidestepped to one degree or another and only get in the user's way. Last month, for instance, a Symantec researcher published a paper detailing how Vista's UAC could be spoofed by attackers.

"There's a lot of academic research coming out now that [some of these things] don't work," said Conner. "We may end up taking the 'safe enough' approach and implement that."

Firefox 3.0, code-named Gran Paradiso for now, will sport beefed up security when it's unveiled as a final release in the second half of this year. Exactly what form that security will take, however, remains uncertain. "There are a lot of things that we can do on security," said Conner, "but we're still in the discussion phase. None of what we're talking about will take a long time to implement."

The current Firefox 3.0 planning document lists security additions in password and antifraud areas, as well as enhancements to the user interface to make it easier for Web surfers to tell the browser's security status or the validity of a site's certificate.

"We want to create a more effective security UI," said Conner. "The main thing is to figure out who isn't looking at the current clues" for valid certificates. He said some of these UI additions will appear in the Alpha 4 or Alpha 5 editions of Gran Paradiso. (The browser reached Alpha 2 about a month ago.)

The newest production version of Firefox -- 2.0.0.2, which was released late last month -- is "100 percent compatible with Vista," according to Conner.

Mozilla Firefox Wins Anti-Spam Award

2007-03-01T18:30:00.001-08:00

Mozilla Firefox, a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, has long had a loyal cult following. Now Datamation’s readers have taken notice, choosing Firefox – narrowly – to win its Product of the Year award in the Anti-Spam category.

The other entrants in this popular category were Norton Internet Security 2007, Vanquish’s vqME, Bullguard’s Internet Security, and the Apache SpamAssassin Project’s SpamAssassin.

The upgraded Firefox browser has built-in phishing protection, which is turned on by default. It checks sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites, which are authentic-looking Web sites set up by scammers to trick users into entering personal financial information. The list is automatically updated.

Users point to Firefox’s speed, stability, highly customizable interface and open code base. Firefox also has the ability to block those ultra-annoying pop-up windows.

Firefox users tout the fact that it is not integrated with Windows, which helps prevent viruses and hackers from causing damage if they somehow manage to compromise the browser. Firefox doesn't support VBScript and ActiveX, two technologies that allow many IE security holes. Additionally, no spyware/adware software can automatically be installed in Firefox when users inadvertently visit an infecting site. The open source browser also gives users complete control over cookies.

“Firefox's anti-phishing features are a welcome addition to the browser and have been solidly implemented,’’ enthuses Leslie Franke, a systems analyst at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., in Akron, Ohio. Franke has used Firefox as her default browser since the summer of 2003, when it was operating under the name Firebird. “There is no question that anti-phishing features are desperately needed in all browsers and Firefox is at the head of the pack.”

Franke says she especially likes that Firefox enables phishing filters by default and that “the steps taken when a phishing site is found are straightforward and easy to understand.”

Mitch Keeler, a resident of Vernon, Texas who runs a site called Firefox Facts, has used the browser for over three years. Keeler says the anti-phishing features are a plus for less experienced Internet users.

“The phishing protection feature warns Firefox users when they stumble upon suspected phishers, and offers to take them off the Web page or to a Web page where they can find what they are really looking for via search,’’ he says.

Firefox vs. Internet Explorer

How does Firefox stack up against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? Last November, software testing firm SmartWare released a report based on tests it conducted on the Firefox 2.0 and IE7 browsers, both of which include new technology to help flag and block phishing sites.

In a third-party test that pitted the browsers against two week's worth of phishing sites, the test indicated that Firefox's phish “net” may have fewer holes than IE's. Firefox blocked 243 phishing sites that IE7 overlooked, while IE7 blocked 117 sites that Firefox did not, according to the report.

But Craig Roth, vice president at technology research firm Burton Group, said people should not put too much stock in one test.

“It's a matter of how it’s keeping up with attacks over time that is important,’’ says Roth.

He says people have long paid attention to Firefox because it has a certain David and Goliath element to its story. Where the browser will prove its merit in the future, says Roth, lies in Mozilla’s ability to stay on top of the security features it has implemented.

“It’s the infrastructure and the people behind it who track where attacks are coming from that give this [Firefox’s anti-phishing features] its value. So if the technology feature is there to check certain websites against a blacklist, that alone doesn’t do anything. It's the blacklist that has to be continually updated,’’ he observes.

Firefox 3.0 opens door to web apps, Mozilla says

2007-03-01T03:16:00.001-08:00

If the Firefox browser were a car, it would be in the garage right now being souped up by an anxious group of gear heads.

When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for web applications and new bookmark and search features. Mozilla released the second alpha version of Firefox 3.0 earlier this month.

While the final feature set hasn't been determined, Firefox 3.0 will also contain elements for its 4.0 release and beyond, says Mike Schroepfer, vice president for engineering for Mozilla, during a stop in London. The browser is due out in the second half of the year.

"What we're trying to do with all of these things is lay the foundation," Schroepfer says.

Perhaps most exciting could be Firefox's ability to support writing an email in, for example, Gmail while offline, with the data sent later when a user is connected to the internet again. Ultimately, Mozilla engineers are aiming for an integration between the browser and web-based services that is as smooth running as a desktop application, says Schroepfer.

So far, engineers have made Firefox work with Zimbra, an open-source email, messaging and VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) application. With a bit of code from Google and Microsoft, it would be possible to integrate with Gmail and Hotmail and other email services.

To do offline support, engineers have overcome the hurdle of how to store data locally on the computer, says Schroepfer said. The feature will make it into Firefox 3.0, although the user interface is still under development, he says.

Other changes could come to "bookmarks" and "history," two features that have seen relatively little innovation, he says. Mozilla would like to create a function where bookmarks could be automatically sorted based on popularity and frequency rather than the static presentation now.

Firefox 3.0 will also have a small, embedded database — SQL Lite — that will eventually be used for full-text indexing of the browser's "history." Users could search for images and text and see the cached page. The feature, however, may not make it into the 3.0 release, he says.

"The advantage of the database is that we can search your cache," says Schroepfer.

Most importantly, Firefox has to be fast and standards compliant, he says. Some users have complained about Firefox sucking up processing power because of add-ons or extensions, a popular aspect of Firefox where small programs can be downloaded and used into the browser to add new functions.

But extensions sometimes tax system resources, in part because it's often part-time hobbyists doing the coding, says Schroepfer.

Mozilla will soon set up a shared library of tested code that extension writers can download and use, Schroepfer says. Mozilla also relaunched its extension site, cutting back on the number of extensions listed so first-time users don't overload their browsers and dampen their experience.

In a few weeks, discussion forums will also be set up for developers to exchange feedback, since code writers sometimes don't know of the problems, he says.

Firefox 4.0 will support the JavaScript 2 language, now under development in part by Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer Brendan Eich and the ECMA International standards body, Schroepfer said. The idea behind the JavaScript revamp is to make high-performance web applications easier to write and assemble for people with less coding expertise, he says.

"It's less about making it possible and more about making it easy," says Schroepfer.

Read about Firefox expert Robert O'Callahan, who is building a Firefox developer team in New Zealand, here.

Firefox, IE7 open to URL spoof

2007-03-01T03:15:00.001-08:00

Although Mozilla patched one more Firefox bug last week than first reported, the researcher whose work has plagued the open-source browser for weeks has released details about another flaw.

Firefox does not properly handle JavaScript "onUnload" events and can be tricked into taking the user to an unintended destination, said security researcher Michal Zalewski. "This flaw allows the attacker to track your footsteps and either redirect you to the URL you wanted to visit, which wouldn't be noticed at all, or to a similarly named phishing Web site when you choose to visit a target of some significance," Zalewski said.

The bug affects the just-released Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 updates, as well as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. JavaScript can be disabled in the browsers to block such redirects.

"The big difference in the two browsers is that Firefox 2.0.0.2 displays the correct address for the redirected site in the address bar," Symantec said in a warning Tuesday. "IE7, however, continues to display the URL that the user typed into the address bar, leading to a false sense of security."

Mozilla fixed 15 flaws Friday in Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10, as opposed to the 14 Computerworld first reported. An overlooked security update in the revised browsers patches another Zalewski vulnerability, Mozilla said Tuesday.

"Firefox 2.0.0.2 update includes fixes for the bugs that researcher Michael Zalewski reported last week, including the hostname vulnerability, cookie issue, and memory corruption issue," Window Snyder, Mozilla's chief security executive, said in an e-mail.

"It was just a mistake," a Mozilla spokesman said regarding why Friday's list of patched bugs had originally omitted the 15th fixed flaw. The list has since been changed to reflect all the included patches.

Spread Firefox - The Ultimate browser on Earth

2006-10-31T20:36:00.000-08:00

Those who hate IE must read this and go for the fox. I have used IE for a long time up to 2004, when Firefox first started to appear, i downloaded it and tried it, i thought it was amazing, no errors, web pages displayed correctly, all sorts of minor things that really can be annoying were all gone when using Firefox, plus i have had lots of problems when using IE, for example, it hangs quite often while browsing, giving that annoying box:

"IE has encountered a problem and needs to close, we are sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell Microsoft about this problem"

I am a computer technician, and trying to fix this problem for pro IE customers who don't want Firefox is costly, in worst cases, i have had to reinstall windows, because IE is integrated, and reinstalling or attempting to repair it fails, forget the knowledge base for IE, there is so many causes for the same problems it is a headache to fix.

Not to mention how it lets those horrible active x controls install, letting all that nasty spy ware etc get on your PC.

Other problems i have had are:

Sites using Flash don't load properly
Https sites not loading
and more.....

There are other browsers out there too, i have tried opera, but did not like it, as you had to pay for it, and is not open source, and is not customizable the same as Firefox.

Netscape was OK, but went downhill, and i ended up using IE, which was the worst thing, i never bothered to use Mozilla, as i thought it was too much like Netscape at the time, so i never used it, however, it was much better than Netscape, and now Firefox is even better, and is getting better all the time.

I am not here to tell anyone that you must use Firefox, but i want to educate people to know there are alternative browsers that are better than IE, the choice is up to you.

Everything is left to you.... (Click on the above image to get Firefox)