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Firefox 3 uses less RAM than earlier versions
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| Since Firefox 3 was introduced in June, the reviews have been favorable.
| CNet, PC Magazine and InfoWorld all gave it top ratings as a Web browser,
| even though it still trails Internet Explorer in total number of users. About
| 28 million free copies have been downloaded since June, said Firefox's
| developer, the Mozilla Foundation.
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http://www.startribune.com/science/26068119.html?location_refer=Science%20+%20Technology
about:mozilla - Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1, Localization news, AMO, Canvas text, and
more…
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| In this issue…
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| * Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 now available
| * Reviewing l10N goals
| * Becoming an AMO editor
| * Canvas text goes bidirectional
| * Mozilla funds SA translation team
| * Firefox 3.1: Smart Location Bar improvements
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http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/07/29/aboutmozilla-firefox-31-alpha-1-localization-news-amo-canvas-text-and-more/
The Mozilla Tree
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| This morning at the opening session of the Firefox Plus Summit I showed this
| image, which has been in the works for a while. It’s my current approach to
| finding a good metaphor to explain the complex nature of Mozilla. There’s a
| fair amount of explanation needed for this image to make sense, and I’ll try
| to get that posted before long.
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http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/07/29/the-mozilla-tree/
this is what the mozilla community looks like
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| Developers, managers, execs, testers, translators, qa folks, build folks,
| admins, artists, interface designers, HR people, sys admins, community
| development folks, and many more. Pretty awesome. And this is just the tip of
| the iceberg.
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=484
With the Apache deal, Microsoft could break the law again and start cheating
(see below).
Yesterday:
Microsoft’s road to Canossa
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| Oh, there is to be sure much left to do for Microsoft to embrace the
| competition and change. I have heard today that many out there are still
| locked into the proprietary platforms trap. An example of this is what’s
| happening right now at the Bank of China. This bank recently upgraded its
| systems to what appears to be an all Microsoft environment. As a result, its
| customers are only able to perform their banking operations through the good
| old Internet Explorer. Wake up, folks. We’re in 2008 and such things should
| have stopped a long time ago. But I don’t see the lock-in effect being lift
| up by Microsoft any time soon.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/28/microsofts-road-to-canossa/
Last week:
A discouraging news for Korean open web movement
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| Open Web, a Korean web forum led by professor Kichang Kim of Korea University
| is best known for its fight against rampant use of Active X in Korea, lost a
| lawsuit against the KFTC (Korea Financial Telecommunication and Clearings
| Comittee). Professor Kim accused that the Korean government's mandate on the
| use of Active X programs for the internet banking and other public web
| services should be lifted, as it is against fair trade and "overly favors
| technology from a single company (that is, Microsoft)".
|
| Professor Kim has also asserted that as many Korean netizens somehow grew to
| think that Active X is something they have to download anyway, many of them
| are exposed to security vulnerabilities. Also, as so many entities including
| virtually all financial institutes in the nation depend on Microsoft
| technology in Korea, whenever Microsoft announces an update, the whole nation
| has to upgrade its internet infrastructure, and this leads to various losses
| on a national scale - Kim asserted.
|
| But Professor Kim's year-long accusation fell short of convincing the court
| that the government mandate on the Active X is against fair trade and
| therefore is illegal.
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http://www.web20asia.com/306
Related:
The cost of monoculture
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| Korea will only get beyond this problem by 1) applying Korean laws
| on open standards to the certificate authorities, 2) reassigning new
| certificates which work with open web standards to all Koreans, 3)
| reprogramming all Korean websites to support 128 bit SSL which will
| allow for a heterogeneous marketplace of operating systems and web
| browsers. This is a herculean task and thus Korea stays hostage to
| Redmond.
|
| Fascinating history. Unintended consequences and de-facto monopolies
| create costs too high to calculate and must be borne without question.
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http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095
Is MS Overcharging Koreans for Vistas?
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| Microsoft?s Windows Vista program is selling in South Korea at
| prices up to 70 percent higher than in the United States or
| Japan, with Microsoft blaming Korea's immature market
| for the price difference.
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200701/kt2007012618202953460.htm
Consumers in No Hurry for Vista Upgrade
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| In a survey of 4,144 members of Danawa.com, a price comparison site,
| only 14 percent of respondents said that they will immediately upgrade
| to the Vista platform when Microsoft releases it on January 30.
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200612/kt2006122918214111890.htm
Korean government warns against Vista upgrade
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| The Ministry of Information and Communication said that it wished it
| could tell a private company like Microsoft to postpone the release
| of Vista, but it can't. The best thing, an official said, was not to
| install Vista before you know what you're getting into.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37159
South Korea, OSS License Guide Announced
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| The Guide explains how to strategically manage and utilize open source SW as
| well as what the open source SW is and how to use it. Explanation for GPL, an
| open source SW, published in June, 2007, is included in the Guide as well.
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http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/enterprise/0,39036961,39163094,00.htm
Korean software firm sues Microsoft
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| According to Korean newspaper Chosun, the US software mammoth has been
| accused of causing a loss in sales revenue estimated at W30bn (US$1=W918)
| because the firm's Windows operating system comes pre-loaded with a media
| player and instant messaging.
|
| Seoul Central District Court confirmed yesterday that Digito was suing
| Microsoft in the US and Korea, claiming that the software giant had violated
| the Fair Trade Act since 2000.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/korean_digito_sues_microsoft/
Korean court rebuffs Microsoft in patents case
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| Microsoft has taken another slap from the authorities in Korea, after
| a court decision in a patent dispure raised the prospect of Officeb
| eing taken off the shelves in the country.
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| Microsoft said it was continuing to dispute the patent's validity.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/27/ms_korea_court/
Microsoft probing ActiveX attacks targeting Access feature
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| The vulnerability only affects the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer
| for Microsoft Office Access 2000, 2002 and 2003.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9984823-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Report: ActiveX, QuickTime are buggiest browser plug-ins
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| Microsoft's technology, primarily used to create add-ins for Internet
| Explorer, accounted for 79 per cent of the 239 plug-in bugs discovered
| between July and December 2007, Symantec said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1680415280&rid=-50
New Attack Kit Targets Bag of ActiveX Bugs
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| Bugs in ActiveX, a Microsoft technology used most often to create add-ons for
| the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser, have always been common, but so
| many serious flaws have been disclosed of late that some security experts
| have recommended users do without them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144214-pg,1/article.html
Be prepared: ActiveX attacks will persist
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| A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the U.S.
| Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the
| ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology altogether.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/19/08NF-activex-horror_1.html
Will Microsoft Change How ActiveX Runs in IE 8?
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| Some security experts, like Will Dormann, a vulnerability analyst at the
| Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute CERT/CC, are calling for
| ActiveX to be disabled from running by default in IE 8.
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| Dormann is telling IE users that they should, from a security perspective,
| disable ActiveX controls from running by default. "It would be nice if this
| is something Microsoft did with the next version of the browser," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Will-Microsoft-Change-How-ActiveX-Runs-in-IE-8/
Rogue ActiveX controls menace users
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| Flaws in ActiveX controls are being increasingly used to run security
| exploits.
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| [...]
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| An attack exploiting this vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution
| by a remote attacker," a blog posting by Symantec researcher Parveen
| Vashishtha warns.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/activex_vulns/
RealPlayer Attack Circulating
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| The attack exploits a flaw in an ActiveX browser helper object, software that
| RealPlayer employs to help users who are experiencing technical difficulties,
| so the PC must be using the Internet Explorer browser to be affected by this
| particular attack, Symantec said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071020/tc_pcworld/138706
Yahoo! battered by second ActiveX vulnerability
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| The vulnerabilities affect versions of Yahoo! Messenger 8.x prior to version
| 8.1.0.419, released late last week. Users are urged to upgrade.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/yahoo_activex_vuln/
Way Too ActiveX
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| Today, over at Symantec's Security Response Weblog, Greg Ahmad
| reveals startling--and I do mean shocking--increases in ActiveX
| vulnerabilities. According to Symantec, ActiveX vulnerabilities
| stayed in the 12- to- 15-a-year range from 2002 to 2005. For
| 2006, the number of vulnerabilities "reached 50," with 42 in
| the second half of the year--coincidentally, the same time
| period Microsoft finished up and released Internet Explorer 7.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/way_too_activex.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/33cfno
Acer puts Active X hole on laptops
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| Laptop outfit Acer seems to have placed an Active X control on its
| computers that seems to allow webpages to execute any program.
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| This huge hole in network security has been installed on board Acer
| lap-tops since 1998.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36773
Adobe Confirms 'Critical' Reader, Acrobat Exploits With IE
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| A critical security vulnerability in an ActiveX control used by
| Internet Explorer could allow malicious hackers to use Adobe's
| Reader and Acrobat software to launch PC hijack attacks,
| according to a warning from Adobe Systems.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2066079,00.asp
Month of ActiveX bugs project begins with two Office flaws
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| A hacker known as shinnai kicked off his "Month of ActiveX Bugs"
| (MoAxB) project with a bang by exposing a number of severe
| vulnerabilities affecting OCX controls in Microsoft Office.
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http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/654659/month-activex-bugs-project-begins-two-office-flaws/
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