Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Wave of warnings on P2P sites from Chrome and Firefox

Since yesterday is very likely that the following has occurred to you: the Chrome and Firefox browsers have qualified several websites with links to P2P download sites with malicious code as showing a warning with a completely red background and quite apocalyptic. It is the case of Rarbg, ExtraTorrent or KickassTorrents, among others.


This is not a lock, but the page acts almost as one apparently offering a unique option to return to the page where we were before. You can always move forward "at your own risk" if you click on Details, then click the button to go to the website anyway. It is quite hidden, but not impossible to find.


Right now many of these sites have already solved this problem, but when Google still had active websites qualified as simply "suspicious" warning that some sites could install malware that installs additional listings in secure sites. And remove the malware, in some cases, it is quite complicated.


The question is: why suddenly Chrome and Firefox have called P2P download sites as suspects so quickly? It is impossible not to think of some kind of strategy behind this movement, while still allowing access to the sites is able to scare away the vast majority of people. Meanwhile, Google has simply been limited to reiterate its policy of protection from some websites containing malware.

Wave of warnings on P2P sites from Chrome and Firefox

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Firefox for Android now exceeds 100 million downloads

Mozilla Firefox, the free and open source web browser, has passed the 100 million downloads in the Google Play Store. 


With a rating of more than 4 stars in the Play Store and more than 100 million downloads since March 2011, when it was released, it becomes a new mark achieved by Firefox for Android, the private mobile version of the powerful, customizable, social, popular and easy to configure web browser Mozilla.


The milestones are listed on the official Mozilla blog where prey to highlight some other facts and events in the history of its development: Its launch in 2011 with immediate options to synchronize content between different devices and operating systems, presenting an optimized version for Android Tablets, Do Not Track options to ensure private browsing, support for visual themes for personalization and QuickShare web content via social networks.


A guest navigation mode, pre-installation on mobile devices and the Kobo GIGABYTE brand power transmitting video to other screens within home via Roku and Chromecast, DuckDuckGo available in its default search engine -another great thing for those who prefer a higher level of privacy-, sections to highlight frequently visited web sites and a reading mode that turns any web page into a text for easy viewing, which complete the list of the most striking features that have been successfully implemented for the Mozilla team in this bright browser.


Firefox was born as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. In their view, the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and the large number of features of Mozilla Application Suite compromised the utility of this one. To combat what they called inflated Mozilla Application Suite, they created a separate browser with the intention of replacing it. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced they would focus their efforts on Firefox and Thunderbird. After that and the years, here’s where we are.

Firefox for Android now exceeds 100 million downloads