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Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox
Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies."
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Mozilla moves to stop spyware company from spoofing Firefox
Mozilla sent a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday to a European company that created a piece of spyware masquerading itself as the Firefox browser.
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Security of open-source software again being scrutinised
A recent round of flaws discovered in open-source software has reignited concerns that security is getting bypassed in the rush to continue expanding the large and extremely popular code base used by millions.
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Google, MPEG LA resolve dispute over VP8 video format
Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs.
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Adobe pushes out emergency Flash update as hackers hit Firefox
Adobe today patched new vulnerabilities in Flash Player that hackers are now exploiting in attacks aimed at Firefox users, the company said.
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Symantec SSL certificate crypto 10k times harder to break than RSA-bit key
Symantec today began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what's known as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA).
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Amazon launches cloud-based video transcoder service
Amazon Web Services has launched a beta of a new web service that can execute in the cloud the heavy data-crunching job of transcoding video.
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Munich saves £8.9 million switching from Windows to Linux
By switching from Windows to LiMux, its own Linux distribution, the German city of Munich has saved over ?11 million (£8.9 million) to date compared to the costs of a similar migration to a more modern Microsoft-based IT infrastructure.
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Microsoft's lack of browser choice may have cost Firefox 9 million downloads, Mozilla says
Daily Firefox downloads decreased by 63 percent during the nearly 15 months that Microsoft failed to show users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 a court-mandated browser choice screen, according to figures released by Mozilla.
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Firefox OS to appear on ZTE handsets in early 2013
Mozilla?s Firefox OS looks closer than ever to actually happening with the news that Chinese smartphone giant ZTE plans to start selling handsets using the software by early 2013.
