Emposha » firefox http://www.emposha.com Just another stupid wordpress blog ;) Tue, 25 May 2010 06:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Today, the number of downloads of Firefox exceeded one billion http://www.emposha.com/uncategorized/today-the-number-of-downloads-of-firefox-exceeded-one-billion.html http://www.emposha.com/uncategorized/today-the-number-of-downloads-of-firefox-exceeded-one-billion.html#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:15 +0000 emposha http://www.emposha.com/?p=319 The calculation includes all published versions of the browser, starting with the first release in 2004. If a user downloads multiple copies for different computers, all of them taken into account. If the user manually downloads from the Web site to update the existing version, the counter is also increasing. But the automatic update does not affect the number of downloads.

Thus, far from the fact that the web browser uses a billion people. Nevertheless, apparently gaining popularity of the application, the former did only a few years ago and today is directly competing with Internet Explorer, by default enabled in Windows.

]]> http://www.emposha.com/uncategorized/today-the-number-of-downloads-of-firefox-exceeded-one-billion.html/feed 0 Beware of two critical vulnerabilities in Firefox 3 http://www.emposha.com/security/beware-of-two-critical-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-3.html http://www.emposha.com/security/beware-of-two-critical-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-3.html#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:20:41 +0000 emposha http://www.emposha.com/?p=198 The exploit was released Wednesday online. It attacks a vulnerability present on Windows, Mac and Linux versions of the browser and could be used to surreptitiously execute malware on the machines of users who browse booby-trapped websites.

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]]> http://www.emposha.com/security/beware-of-two-critical-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-3.html/feed 1 Firefox demon & strange processor load http://www.emposha.com/uncategorized/firefox-demon-strange-processor-load.html http://www.emposha.com/uncategorized/firefox-demon-strange-processor-load.html#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:00:08 +0000 emposha http://www.emposha.com/?p=55 Lately I have very strange thing with my firefox browser. After that I close firefox I still see it running in process list and consuming a lot of system resources. Currently I`m running window vista so probably that the main reason of this strange behavior. On windows xp I never had such a experience.

Op.System: Vista Business
Browser:Firfox 3.01
Plugins: Firebug, Firecookie,Liverank

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