[ad_1] Not every request will use HTTPS. Mozilla is relying on a “fallback” method that will revert to your operating system’s default DNS if there’s either a specific need for them (such as some parental controls and enterprise configurations) or an outright lookup failure. This should respect the choices of users and IT managers who […]
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Google and Mozilla to block web surveillance in Kazakhstan
[ad_1] Turns out that the root certificate was a Trojan Horse. It allowed the Kazakhstan government to perform a “man-in-the-middle” or MitM attack against HTTPS connections to a list of 37 domains, including Facebook, Twitter, Google and more, according to a study published by University of Michigan’s Censored Planet. Normally, HTTPS websites are encrypted in […]
Apple promises hostile treatment for sites that break Safari privacy rules
[ad_1] Cross-site tracking is the practice of monitoring a person’s browsing behavior. Often, it involves sharing data with third parties such as advertisers. If you’ve ever looked at a product on Amazon, and then seen ads for it follow you from website to website, you’ve been a victim of cross-site tracking. As CNET notes, Apple […]
Firefox Reality VR web browser arrives on Oculus Quest headsets
[ad_1] The free software is initially available in 10 languages (including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean). More are on the way, Mozilla said. This isn’t necessarily a revolution, especially if you’re content to use the regular Oculus Browser. Regardless, it’s a big deal for Quest owners and VR browsing as a whole. You […]
Mozilla now curates a list of recommended extensions for Firefox
[ad_1] In addition to its efforts to make the Firefox add-ons ecosystem safer, Mozilla is making the Firefox Reader View dark mode even darker, as well. The mode used to cover the text area only, changing a page’s background to black to make reading in the dark easier on the eyes. But now the mode […]
Mozilla preps its ad-free news subscription service for testing
[ad_1] A first look portal shows that it will set users back $5 a month. “We share your payment directly with the sites you read,” it says. “They make more money which means they can bring you great content without needing to distract you with ads just to keep the lights on.” Mozilla conjured up […]
A Firefox update fixes yet another zero-day vulnerability
[ad_1] Apparently, the attackers sent spear-phishing emails to the cryptocurrency exchange’s personnel to lure them to a website designed to automatically download and run an info-stealer if it’s loaded on Firefox. The malware they used worked on both Mac and Windows and could collect passwords and other data. A Google Project Zero researcher reported the […]
Mozilla explains why all Firefox add-ons broke at once
[ad_1] The company already explained that the mass disablement of add-ons was due to the expiration of a signing certificate as it pushed updates and scrambled to fix the issue over a weekend. Now, we have a lot more detail about how the certificate was able to expire, and why it affected people at different […]
Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
[ad_1] Many Firefox users around the world are browsing without their usual set of extensions after they suddenly stopped working earlier this evening. The event occurred as the clock rolled over on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, aka GMT or Greenwich Mean Time), and impacted users quickly narrowed it down to “expiration of intermediate signing cert” […]
Firefox comes to Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs
[ad_1] Today’s release doesn’t come completely out of the blue — Qualcomm confirmed that Mozilla was working on an ARM64 version of its popular web browser at its 2018 Tech Summit in Hawaii. We got to test it (albeit very briefly) on one of Qualcomm’s reference design machines, and to no one’s surprise, it worked […]