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• Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda

  Companies building Web sites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.

• Write your name in the Firefox code

  The Mozilla Foundation is offering to "immortalise" people's names in the code of Firefox, if they manage to persuade a friend to download its Web browser before September 15.

• Mozilla releases last 'fat' browser

  The new release of Mozilla's open-source browser marks the end of a five-year-old regime, as the project prepares to shift to a leaner, simpler code base

• Netscape flaw exposes users' hard drives

  A bug in the Mozilla code, which is used in the latest Netscape browser, allows a Web page to list directories and read files from the users' computer.

• Firefox 3.0.7 targets security issues

  Mozilla on Wednesday released an update to the Firefox Web browser that its developers said fixes eight security issues found in Firefox 3.0.6, six of which were rated critical.

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  Microsoft creates open source foundation

  Microsoft has created the non-profit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open source communities and software companies.

• IE patch: Microsoft's eight days of hell

  It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".

Features and Case Studies (62)

• Top alternatives to Microsoft Outlook

  If you're using a Microsoft Windows operating system there is also a good chance that you use Office and Outlook as your email client. But is this really a choice?

• Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

  But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.

• New Firefox, Mozilla releases coming to fix bugs

  Mozilla Foundation plans to soon release new versions of the browsers to deal with a recently disclosed serious security flaw and other bugs.

• For Opera, smaller really is better

  Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.

• Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

  After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. Additional reading: IE is evolving, but is it enough?

Reviews (60)

• Firefox 3

  If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.

• Firefox 3 beta 1: a first look

  A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.

• Does Mozilla do it better?

  A list making the rounds on the Internet's newsgroups and discussion boards says you can do more things with the Mozilla browser than you can with Microsoft's Internet Explorer--101 things, to be precise.

• Mozilla steps up the IE challenge

  Mozilla isn't quite at full release 1.0 status yet. But it's achingly close. What's more, if it continues to improve, Internet Explorer may have quite a battle on its hands.

• HP finds a thrilla in Mozilla

  Hewlett-Packard will sidestep a Netscape-branded browser for its open-source original, a move the company calls a vote of confidence for the open-source model.

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