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Firefox blocks insecure .Net add-on–awkwardly

Mozilla on Friday disabled a Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant because of a security problem–then scrambled to give people with patched systems an override option.
Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, announced the first step late Friday night on his blog. “It’s recently surfaced that it has a serious security vulnerability, [...]

Nick | Oct 19, 2009 | Comments 0
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Google Makes Up 88 Percent Of Mozillas Revenues, Threatens Its Non-Profit Status

Today, the (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 (embedded below). Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million, with search-related royalties from Google accounting for 88 percent of the total, or $66 million. (Another $2 million or so came from other search engines). [...]

Nick | Nov 19, 2008 | Comments 0
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Firefox Gets More Google Money. Time For The Mozilla IPO (Again!)

Firefox owner Mozilla has extended its lucrative search deal with Google (GOOG) for three more years, through Nov. 2011, chair Mitchell Baker writes. What’s that mean? The Web browser dot-org will continue to make a lot of money

Nick | Aug 28, 2008 | Comments 0
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