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A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung's newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said "no". They'd only see benefit if they were reading/writing large files. Their system has plenty of RAM, and we decided to take a different approach. By creating a filesystem in RAM, you can read and write files much faster than … [Read more...]
With new betas for both Firefox and Chrome being released, CNET decided to find out how good their JavaScript performance was. Both browsers got a performance boost with Firefox slightly edging out Chrome. You have to turn on TraceMonkey, Firefox's new Javascript engine in 3.1b1, to get the improvement. We never thought Google was that serious about building a new browser. They just want wanted … [Read more...]
During the last day the web has been abuzz about Mozilla Labs' Ubiquity. It's an addon for Firefox that can help you streamline how you get things done on the web. In the example above, they show constructing an email with a map and reviews using mostly keyboard driven input. The addon is quick to install and we think you'll find it saving you a lot of time on tasks you'd normally hit the search … [Read more...]
IBM's X-Force security team has released a mid-year report(PDF) stating that the number of zero-day exploits is growing at an alarming rate. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a zero-day exploit is a program that is created and implemented within 24 hours of the disclosure of a security flaw. These exploits usually affect users before they even know the vulnerability exists and long before … [Read more...]
We generally try to limit the number of extensions we install for security, performance, and because we use a lot of different systems. That's not to say there aren't a lot of interesting addons out there and Mozilla has recently announced the winners of their Extend Firefox 3 Contest. Lifehacker has a full rundown of each of the winners. Nothing really stands out in our eyes (although we might … [Read more...]
Mozilla security chief [Window Snyder] made some surprising announcements about Firefox Next, Mozilla's next major browser overhaul. In her chat at the Black Hat security conference, she introduced three new initiatives that focused on threat modeling, training, and vulnerability metrics. For the threat modeling initiative, she's hired Matasano Security consultants to review Firefox's code for … [Read more...]
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative reported a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 yesterday. It includes the 2.0 versions as well. It's unreleased and Mozilla is working on a fix already. Whatever the exploit is, it does require the user to visit a malicious site or click a link to executed. It came in 5 hours after the FF3 release, but since it affects previous versions, we wonder if the … [Read more...]
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