For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for its Firefox browser to patch a problem with an update issued just days before.

Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.6.8 on Friday to patch a single security problem and deal with what Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, called "a stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plug-ins."

The company had released Firefox 3.6.7 two days earlier .

Mozilla patched one critical security bug in the newest update, according to an advisory also published Friday. "In certain circumstances, properties in the plug-in instanc...

Future versions of Firefox are set to adopt a new tab design that will transform the browser's interface, a senior Mozilla developer has announced.

Called "Tab Candy," the new idea is to place tabs inside the browser window, grouping them according to particular associations. The effect is rather like viewing thumbnails, which allows users to keep track of much larger thematic groups using a convenient visual cue.

The best way to understand the concept is to view it. Mozilla design guru Aza Raskin (as it happens the son of the late Apple design guru, Jef Raskin) has released a video that...

RapidShare takes all reasonable measures to prevent movies from being distributed through its web-service, a German court ruled yesterday. The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf overturned the earlier decision of a local district court in a second case brought by movie outfit Capelight Pictures.

rapidshareLike most file-hosting services, RapidShare hosts a wide range of movies, music and software files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders. This situation has caused the company to be dragged to court on multiple occasions, but the file-hoster has come out the winner s...

To the list of dwindling worldwide resources add Internet addresses. According to experts, the nearly 4.5 billion current addresses aren't enough, only six percent of available addresses are left, and the Internet will run out of addresses by sometime late next year.

Three main factors are behind the upcoming shortage. One is the explosion in web access from multiple devices for each user, primarily in developed countries. Each of those smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktops and other devices that access the web require a different IP, or Internet protocol, address. And the demand for devi...

Microsoft released Security Advisory 2286198 late last week to address a newly-discovered zero-day flaw that can be exploited simply by clicking a shortcut icon. However, that original guidance is being questioned by security researchers, and exploit code is now available, making a bad situation even worse.

According to the Microsoft advisory, "The vulnerability exists because Windows incorrectly parses shortcuts in such a way that malicious code may be executed when the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed." An attack can exploit the flaw and compromise the system or run malic...

Even as Facebook welcomes its 500 millionth member, it faces a lawsuit claiming ownership of 84 percent of the social network.

Facebook just might have a new daddy, and his name isn't Mark Zuckerberg.

What seemed like a nuisance suit filed by a complete unknown named Paul Ceglia, who claims he owns 84 percent of Facebook, could come back to bite the 26-year-old hoodie-wearing CEO in the assets

The story is that Ceglia, a Web designer, hired then-Harvard freshman Zuckerberg to do some coding for him back in April 2003. Now Bloomberg is reporting Zuckerberg may indeed have signed a lega...

In one of the largest updates for Firefox 3.6 this year, Mozilla patched 16 bugs, with which 9 of them were critical. An older version of Firefox, 3.5, also got some fixes for 12 flaws that were found by the company. With over 9 of the bugs labeled critical by Mozilla, they confirmed that hackers could use the flaws to get into the machine and plant malicious malware on it.

Five of the bugs were given to Mozilla from HP TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, which is of the two leading bounty programs aimed at getting the bugs worked out and notifying companies that make the software. Two o...