Mozilla launches Firefox 3.6, calls it 'world's best browser'

I installed Firefox 3.6 this morning. As usual, the installation was simple and very fast. If you use Firefox,you can do the same at anytime. Simply click on Help in the Menu Bar up top and click on Check for Updates. I had been version 3.5.7 prior to the upgrade. I can also say that the 3.6 screen looks the same as the prior release, and I consider this a good thing. The last thing I need as a user is to have to learn how to use a new browser.

Of course, you can change the look and feel of it if you wish, but I wanted to start out simple, i.e., with no obvious changes.

 

Here are a couple of links if you wish to study up before upgrading:

Firefox 3.6 Brings Performance Improvements, a Few New Features

Mozilla launches Firefox 3.6, calls it 'world's best browser'

 

Patch arrives for IE hole targeted by Chinese

Look for this patch from Microsoft today (or soon) and be sure to install it!

From Windows Secrets:

"As of this writing, Microsoft is scheduled to release on Jan. 21 an update that fixes the Internet Explorer vulnerability behind the recent, highly publicized cyberattacks on Google and other major corporations.

The sophisticated "Aurora" exploit is delivered through common file attachments or links — typically in e-mail or other messages that appear to come from trusted sources — but proven security measures and a little common sense can negate all such threats.

The first reports of the cyberattacks that prompted Google to threaten withdrawal from China were alarming indeed. So was Microsoft's first official response, in MS security bulletin 979352, which described the scope of the newly discovered IE vulnerability.

The flaw permits remote code execution by what Microsoft describes as a "specially crafted attack" that affects most versions of Internet Explorer:

• IE 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4
  
  
• IE 6, 7, and 8 on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2"
  

Lots of luck with that! Didn't they try this once before? I know they have been near bankruptcy, but somehow manage to keep going. I for one wouldn't pay a nickel for this service let alone their paper. It'll be interesting to see if they really go forward with this or if they are convinced that they are out of their minds and decide to leave almost well enough alone.

New York Times plans to charge for some online access

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