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Browser Updates

  • Post author: Omid Farhang
  • Post published: September 8, 2010
  • Reading Time: 2 min
  • Word Count: 316 words

The Mozilla foundation just released the popular web browser Firefox in version 3.6.9. The new version fixes overall 14 security vulnerabilities of which 10 are rated critical by the developers. Additionally, they added a new feature called ā€œX-FRAME-OPTIONSā€œ-header which shall help mitigating clickjacking attacks as web site owners can ensure with this header that their content isnā€™t inserted into other sites via frames. The update is available through the automatic update mechanism ( via the ā€œHelpā€ ā€“ ā€œSearch for updatesā€ menu). ...

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The big change coming to Safari 5: Kernel-level multi-processing

  • Post author: Omid Farhang
  • Post published: April 10, 2010
  • Reading Time: 5 min
  • Word Count: 995 words

Apple has been challenging Google on many fronts this week ā€” first with its mobile platform, then with its advertising platform. Earlier today, its developers launched the first volley in the battleā€™s third front, releasing the first public code for the next WebKit rendering and processing kernel that will likely drive the Safari 5 browser. With Google Chrome using a reworked form of WebKit, the Apple team did something that perhaps any other free and open source developer would be publicly stoned for doing, but which Apple might just have the savvy to get away with: It openly one-upped another developerā€™s open contribution. ...

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