In a post to Mozilla Security blog, Window Snyder, Mozilla Security Officer, confirmed a security threat reported a couple of days ago that has compromised Vietnamese language packs downloaded since February 18, 2008.

Apparentlly, the language pack author’s computer got infected with the HTML.Xorer virus which injected malicious scripts into Firefox’s localized help files to display unwanted ads. While not harmful at this point, the ads could be replaced with malware to compromise users’ computers.

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Flock, the Firefox-based browser with a social flavor, has been awarded a Webby, one of the best reputed Internet awards, in the Social Networking category.

Flock integrates with several social networking sites including Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa, and other web services including Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

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Despite my worst expectations, the Iron Man movie proved to be a very entertaining one, a good story, perhaps the best told for a comic character based movie so far, fast paced, appropriate special effects. In sum, recommended.

If you also enjoyed the movie, here’s an Iron Man persona for you. You will need Personas 1.0 alpha 1, Mozilla Labs’ Firefox extension that allows to set a background for the toolbars and the status bar. Read the rest of this entry »

The revamped Mozilla Add-ons site launched last month has been updated to address a few common complaints regarding some limited functionality.

Among the most relevant: Themes, Dictionaries and Language Packs can be searched independently again, the range of application versions an add-on is compatible with is now displayed, review titles are displayed, 20 search results instead of 10 by default, Internet Explorer 7 compatibility so add-ons for Sunbird or Thunderbird can be properly downloaded, etc.

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Foxkeh is featured playing basketball in this month desktop wallpapers.

You can get it at Foxkeh’s Blog, with or without May’s calendar, weeks starting on Monday or Sunday and a variety of sizes a screen size ratios. Enjoy.

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, a stability and security update that patches two moderate security vulnerabilities.

Thunderbird users are encouraged to update by clicking Check for Updates… in Thunderbird’s Help menu, or wait for the update prompt in the next 48 hours.

Still under intensive polishing, the Firefox 3 themes now have names: Tango, Strata and Firelight, for the Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, respectively.

Tango, is named directly after the Tango Desktop Project which provides visual guidelines for Gnome and KDE Linux desktop environments. The new theme is in large part an effort of Michael Ventnor. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite its name, Paste Email, a Firefox extension developed by Chuck Baker, allows you to paste any of up to 16 different short text notes you find yourself typing frequently. It was originally conceived as a quick way to paste your email address but has well grown beyond that.

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When you scroll the mouse wheel over the tab bar in Firefox you see the tab titles pass by so you can select the tab you want, which is not always that easy if titles are similar like when having several pages from the same site open at a time.

With Tab Wheel Scroll, a Firefox extension developed by Matt H, the mouse wheel actually switches tabs so you can see the full tab contents as you scroll up and down which you can configure to scroll tabs to the left or to the right.

You can also set whether you want to continue with the first or last tab when you have reached the opposite edge so scrolling keeps going. This sounded as a good option at first but turning it off actually made it more usable for me.

Bonus points for not adding any unnecessary user interface other than its options accessible from the Add-ons Manager, and being already compatible with Firefox 3 betas and nightlies.

An option (like Ctrl + scroll) for simple tab title scrolling would be welcomed.

Tab Wheel Scroll is available from Mozilla Add-ons experimental area, so you will need to log in to install it.

While Mozilla is gradually turning more attention to mobile platforms to expand its presence in the web, there’s another project, MicroB, that is already providing a Mozilla based solution for the Nokia tablet PC platform that has already become the default browser for Internet Table OS 2008, the latest version of Nokia’s maemo-based table PC OS.

Antonio Gomes, a MicroB developer kindly accepted an interview to learn more about the MicroB project and how it works.

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