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Mozilla Reveals New Features of Firefox 3

August 6th, 2007

Open source browser maker Mozilla has developed a wide array of secure coding analysis tools as part of its internal development process, and now it’s beginning to share those programs with the outside world.

As part of their presentation at the Black Hat 2007 conference in Las Vegas this week, Mozilla leaders detailed their ongoing efforts to lower the number of available vulnerabilities in their increasingly popular Firefox and Mozilla browsers.

In the name of trying to foster more secure coding practices across the browser space and in the larger software community, Snyder and Mozilla co-founder Mike Shaver said the company is making its technology available to other developers because they believe it can be of significant use in helping its competitors, which include Microsoft, Opera, and Apple, to clean up their own JavaScript errors.

Snyder and Shaver also offered a sneak peek at a handful of new security features that the company is building into its next-generation Firefox 3 browser.

Among the tools that will be added in the browser — which is slated to arrive sometime before the end of 2007 — will be extended validation certificates, anti-malware and phishing systems, and stronger password protection, the Mozilla leaders said. The browser will also offer a security interface that gives user the ability to manage all of the various protections.

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Via Hardwarezone.com

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