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Linux Mint is reverting Firefox to Mozilla config after partnership signed

Having to switch from the new default of Google as search engine of choice and turning off telemetry likely to be biggest obstacles for users.

January 10, 2022 by Chris Duckett

Firefox 98.0.1 has one big change: Remove Yandex and Mail.ru as custom offerings

Mozilla rolls out update to remove Yandex and Mail.ru from releases that had previously been offered.

March 14, 2022 by Chris Duckett

Mozilla temporarily stops crypto donations over climate impact concerns

Change in course follows outcry from some Mozilla and Gecko founders.

January 6, 2022 by Chris Duckett

Web devs need to keep an eye on Interop 2022 benchmark to make life easier

Browser vendors have teamed up to squish interoperability pain points.

March 3, 2022 by Chris Duckett

Mozilla properly fuzzed NSS and still ended up with a simple memory corruption hole

Bug detection king Tavis Ormandy simply made a really big signature with NSS, and bad things happened.

December 1, 2021 by Chris Duckett

Update now: Samba prior to 4.13.17 hit with remote root code execution bug

Vulnerability lies in vfs_fruit module that helps Samba and OS X clients work better.

February 1, 2022 by Chris Duckett

Mozilla ends support for Firefox Lockwise password management app, strands iOS users

Password management app to be replaced by functionality already existing in the Firefox browser.

November 23, 2021 by Chris Duckett

Australian blockchain political party Flux faces AEC chopping block

The Australian Electoral Commission is looking to deregister the party that claimed it could deliver 'democracy-as-a-service'.

January 13, 2022 by Chris Duckett

WA Auditor-General drags local governments over horrendous cyber risk management

Usage of out-of-date software came in for special treatment from the Western Australia Auditor-General, with one entity vulnerable to a 15-year vulnerability.