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Tree Closure for Gecko 1.9 Alpha Release

The tree will be closing right now for the Gecko 1.9 alpha; only bugs that have been marked as blocking1.9a1+ (in the status whiteboard) should be landing.  This is the first of many Gecko 1.9 alphas, so if something does not make it in, don’t panic — there will be another alpha in another 6-8 […]

Anti-phishing Test Results

As part of our ongoing commitment to security analysis and testing we engaged SmartWare to test the effectiveness of our Phishing Protection feature. Firefox 2 Phishing Protection and IE 7 Phishing Filter were tested using know phishing sites as evaluated by the community at PhishTank. We picked PhishTank as a data source because […]

Firefox 1.5.0.8 Security & Stability Update

As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 1.5.0.8 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from mozilla.com (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html). We strongly recommend that all Firefox 1.5.x users upgrade to this latest release. This update is available immediately in 37 languages including German, […]

Developer Chat with the Creator of JavaScript and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich

Update: Brendan’s special guest at today’s developer chat is Kevin Lynch, chief software architect at Adobe. Brendan and Kevin will be discussing the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine that Adobe has open sourced and contributed to Mozilla under the new project name Tamarin. If you’re interested in the future of Mozilla’s JavaScript implementation, you won’t […]

Unit Testing For the Mozilla Toolkit

One of the top-priority goals identified by the Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 planning meetings was improving the test automation and testability of our code. To further this goal, I am instituting a new unit-test policy for all checkins to the toolkit module.