Firefox Will Show Ads Based On Your Browsing History

Mozilla has announced Firefox will soon do a Google, meaning it’s going to start showing sponsored ads based on your browsing history. As of next week, Firefox Beta users will start seeing “Suggested” tiles when they open a new tab. Currently, opening a new tab in Firefox presents a screen with tiles from sites you previously visited. Now some of those tiles are going to be ads based on your browsing history. For example, if you’ve been searching for a new camera, one of the tabs might lead you to the website of a camera store.

Firefox OS comes to Africa with Orange's $40 package deal

Mozilla's major new ally will sell its Klif phone and six months' network service in 13 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Orange likes Firefox OS's inexpensive hardware requirements and expects to sell millions.

Firefox 36 adds HTTP/2 support and pinned tile syncing

Mozilla has released version 36 of open-source desktop browser Firefox. The update’s biggest change is support for the newly-released HTTP/2 standard.

In Firefox Nightly appeared virtual reality

In the alpha version of Firefox introduced experimental support technology WebVR. Through a special extension WebVR Oculus Rift Enabler does now compatible with the helmet Oculus Rift.

Google urges Firefox users to ditch Yahoo

Google is now fighting to regain its lost search share from Yahoo by encouraging Firefox users to switch their default search engine and home page to its own offerings, reports Search Engine Land.

Mozilla corrected 9 holes in Firefox 35

Several vulnerabilities in certain circumstances lead to memory corruption.
9, Mozilla corrected vulnerabilities, including critical, the latest version of Firefox 35.


Fixed a critical vulnerability in a plug Gecko Media Plugin, makes it possible to "escape from the sandbox," as well as a reading error after the release of WebRTC, exploitation which allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code using a specially crafted packets. In addition, a series of errors corrected memory corruption in the engine Firefox, SeaMonkey and email client Thunderbird.
Several vulnerabilities found by experts Mozilla, under certain circumstances, lead to memory corruption and exploitation allows remote code execution.
One critical flaw is related to incorrect initialization of memory that occurs when the strain bitmap bitmap decoder is presented within the element Canvas. This may lead to the use of uninitialized memory, which in turn allows data to seep into web-content.

Source : securitylab.ru