Page Speed Firefox/Firebug Add-on

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox Add-on integrated with Firebug developed by Google. Webmasters and web developers can use it to evaluate the performance of their web site and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

This tool performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance and can be used to get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve the web site’s overall  performance.

By using this information, you can:

  • Make your web site faster.
  • Keep Internet users engaged with your site.
  • Reduce your bandwidth and hosting costs.

SDK for developers

Developers can use the SDK to generate scores and suggestions in environments other than the Page Speed Firefox browser Add-on. Learn more.

How to Check for Outdated Plugins in Firefox

Mozilla started the plugin check program to help users keep their plugins up to date on Firefox. Outdated plugins are a major source of security and stability risk for web users.

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Firefox 3.6.7 fixes critical issues in 3.6.6

Mozilla has shipped a mega patch for Firefox to fix a total of 14 moderate to critical security flaws that expose Web surfers to attacks by hackers.

Impact key:

  • Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
  • High: Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
  • Moderate: Vulnerabilities that would otherwise be High or Critical except they only work in uncommon non-default configurations or require the user to perform complicated and/or unlikely steps.

Below is a list of bugs fixed in the latest release:

  • Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages
  • Cross-domain data theft using CSS
  • Multiple location bar spoofing vulnerabilities
  • Characters mapped to U+FFFD in 8 bit encodings cause subsequent character to vanish
  • Same-origin bypass using canvas context
  • Cross-origin data disclosure via Web Workers and importScripts
  • Remote code execution using malformed PNG image
  • nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution vulnerability
  • nsCSSValue::Array index integer overflow
  • Arbitrary code execution using SJOW and fast native function
  • Plugin parameter EnsureCachedAttrParamArrays remote code execution vulnerability
  • Use-after-free error in NodeIterator
  • DOM attribute cloning remote code execution vulnerability
  • Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.7/ 1.9.1.11)

Firefox is the official web browser of IBM

In a blog post released on July 1st Bob Sutor, said out loud that they are officially adding a new piece of software to the list of default common applications they expect IBM employees to use, and that’s the Mozilla Firefox browser.
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