Mozilla Firefox 95 is now available to download. The latest stable release of this flagship FOSS browser comes with a couple of interesting feature tweaks, improved online security, and lower CPU usage too. We’ll start with the most obvious chang…
Read MoreA cryptographic library set NSS Mozilla (Network Security Services) has been identified in the critical vulnerability (( CVE-2021-43527 CVE-2021-43527)) that could lead to malicious code execution when processing DSA or RSA-PSS digital signatures specified using the DER ( Distinguished Encoding Rules). The issue codenamed BigSig has been fixed in NSS 3.73 and NSS ESR 3.68.1. […]
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Read MoreThis week has been great for fans of the Fedora Linux distribution (yes, that includes me) and the GNOME desktop environment (that also includes me) as we saw the release of Fedora Linux 35 with the latest GNOME 41.1 desktop environment, and GNOME 40 folks were also updated to the 40.5 point release. But there […]
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Read MoreChanges to Firefox’s add-on policies that were announced on Wednesday, focus on privacy and security and will go into effect on December 1, 2021.
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This has been a really great week for Linux releases, starting with the Mozilla Firefox 93 web browser and continuing with the Debian GNU/Linux 11.1 “Bullseye” distribution. Also out this week were new maintenance updates for the KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks software suites for users of the Plasma desktop. On top of that, the […]
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Read MoreMozilla announced the completion of an independent audit of client software for connecting to the Mozilla VPN service. The audit analyzed a stand-alone client application written using the Qt library and delivered for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS. Mozilla VPN is powered by over 400 servers from Swedish VPN provider Mullvad in over 30 […]
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Read MoreThe biggest change in the Mozilla Firefox 90 release is the deprecation of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support. Firefox follows in the footsteps of Google Chrome/Chromium, and other web browsers, to no longer allow access to ftp:// links. Mozilla started deprecating FTP support since Firefox 88, but users were able to re-enable the feature by […]
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