Mozilla has removed two Firefox add-ons from there website. Two experimental add-ons, Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader contained Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Master Filer contained Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose Trojan. Both of these add-ons are now removed from Firefox Add-on download website.

This vulnerability is known to affect Firefox on Windows only, if either Master Filer or Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader are installed. Versions of Sothink Web Video Downloader greater than 4.0 are not infected. Master Filer was downloaded approximately 600 times between September 2009 and January 2010. Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was downloaded approximately 4,000 times between February 2008 and May 2008. Master Filer was removed from AMO on January 25, 2010 and Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was removed from AMO on February 2, 2010. AMO performs a malware check on all add-ons uploaded to the site, and blocks add-ons that are detected as such. This scanning tool failed to detect the Trojan in Master Filer. Two additional malware detection tools have been added to the validation chain and all add-ons were rescanned, which revealed the additional Trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader. No other instances of malware have been discovered.

Here is a list of antivirus programs known to detect the trojans found in the affected add-ons.

• Antiy-AVL
• Avast
• AVG
• GData
• Ikarus
• K7AntiVirus
• McAfee
• Norman
• VBA32

Source : Mozilla Blog

As of March 2010, Google will not support older browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for its Google Docs and Google sites services. According to Google, they are stopping the support of older browser because old browsers cannot run many of the modern web application. Web is completely changes its all about web application not web pages or websites.

It think its a good move instead of supporting old web browsers companies should stop their application support for old browsers. These old browsers are also more vulnerable for security attacks. Recently a security flaw in Internet Explorer 6 is used by cyber criminals to steal data from Google Server.

Google encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+
• Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
• Google Chrome 4.0+
• Safari 3.0+

NSS Labs published a report called “ Web Browser Security – Protection Against Socially Engineered Malware”.

NSS Labs results show that Microsoft internet Explorer RC1 able to catch 69% catch rate against Malware as compare to Apple Safari (24%) ,Mozilla Firefox v3.07(30%), Google Chrome v1.0.154916%), Opera v9.64(5%) and Microsoft IE7(4%). This data clearly show that Microsoft IE7 does not provide any protection against malware.

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On Thursday, Mozilla labs unveiled a new open source project for developers called “Bespin”. Mozilla Bespin is a web based programming environment for developers it provides the benefits of cloud computing as well as developers can also use the resources that are available in their desktop computers. Current version of Mozilla Bespin is 0.1 includes some basic editing features such as syntax highlighting, large file sizes, undo/redo, previewing files in the browser, importing/exporting projects, etc.

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Google has projected a new idea to increase traffic on its own  Chrome browser or Mozilla’s Firefox. This time Google played a game to dump Internet Explorer for its Gmail users. When user open Internet Explorer 6[IE6] and hit Gmail.com then a pop-up window appears with the link & message "Get Faster Gmail" when you click on that link it drags you to Google’s Website that boasts Chrome browser or Mozilla’s Firefox-3 are "Twice as fast" in speed of currently running Gmail.

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On November 19,2008 Mozilla add-on website hits the mark of one billion downloads. According the Mozilla the add-on download count is only from the addons.mozilla.org but some of the add-on are also hosted some were else. This is a real good story for Mozilla add-on because last day Mozilla has launched the Fashion Your Firefox a set of Mozilla Firefox add-on.

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Mozilla has introduced an application that will help users to accelerate the customization for Firefox. it offers different sets of add-on, based on that selected add-on you can speed up your customization for Firefox. Firefox has more than 5000 of add-on that are available free for users. Firefox add-on are little extras that allow you to add a personal touch to your browser and make more familiar. users can select the favorites from the categories available on Web.By these add-on you will gain performance improvements of several seconds when loading pages. If you don’t already have Firefox, you may download from the online application that provides different nine sets of Firefox extensions whereas each set contains some add-on from their you can directly download according to your requirement.

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Firefox the only big threat to Microsoft Internet Explore is now extended it’s deal with Google till 2011. This means that Google will be the default search provider for Mozilla Firefox browser. Users after installing the Firefox browser can change the default search provider , means user can choose any search provider but most of time users won’t change the default search provider.

This deal left one question : Google says Microsoft can’t use Live search as a default search provider for Internet Explorer but Google is paying a good amount of money to Mozilla for having Google as their default search provider. In both the cases users can easily change the search provider.?

Last year, Baker said that she would not hesitate to walk away from the lucrative partnership if that was what was necessary to remain independent. Baker said in an interview with Computerworld in October 2007

We’ve spent a lot of time and energy making sure that Google understands that it cannot turn us into an arm of Google," . "If the protection of [our independence] would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox.