FireFox Update to Check Passwords

Gregg Keizer reports that FireFox Browser version 70 will periodically check internally stored username-password combinations against databases listing hacked corporate accounts, and notify the browser user if their password(s) are compromised. Firefox 70 is due to be released in October.

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FireFox Extensions

Gregg Keizer recounts how the Mozilla team was forced to update an expired security certificate used by its extensions. The expired certificate prevented the extensions from running.

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FireFox Add-Ons

Matt Kapko suggests valuable FireFox browser add-ons .

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FireFox Security Tip

Michael Horowitz shares how the user can restrict FireFox to only display sites employing Transport Layer Security version 1.2 or higher . The good news is it makes web surfing safer, while the downside it is it may restrict access to safe sites which have not updated their technology.

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Secure Data Transmission With HTTPS://

Michael Kan reports that Google Chrome will begin displaying that web pages served with HTTP:// shall be labeled as insecure. FireFox has already been doping this.

This will frighten many users of websites, even if secure data transmission is not important for fiscal security. Therefore, Google has developed a guide for webmasters to enable secure HTTPS:// data transmission, eliminating the message from the viewers of the site.

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Web Browser Privacy Mode

Ms. Smith reports that privacy mode in some browsers actually offers extremely limited privacy to users.

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FireFox Market Share Declining

Gregg Keizer says that FireFox has dropped to a 10% share of the browser market . Many of the comments raged over whether the decline was influenced by Brandon Eich's resignation or the frequent updates and modifications of the browser. The browser is available for download at http://www.mozilla.org.

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Mozilla Explores New Products

Serdar Yegulalp from InfoWorld reports on new Mozilla projects . Some of these are software tools for improving Mozilla's FireFox Web browser, and others are useful tools for exploring the Web.

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Browser Application Development

ComputerWorld columnist Gregg Keiser writes that Mozilla suspends work on 64-bit Firefox for Windows. Keiser indicates the Mozilla team did not want to release a browser that would be incompatable with the installed base of addons. He notes that the browser shipped with Windows 8 retains a 32-bit coding for its tabs for the same reason.

My own take is this: that developing new 64-bit browser addons will be potential job market in the future.

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