December 28, 2007 - 2:46 pm - Posted by Banana Hammr
Open Source Living is a recently-established directory of open-source software.
Basically it’s stuff you can use without having to pay for it and without worrying about proprietary software issues.
Most of the criteria for inclusion in the Open Source Living revolve around the nature of the licensing for the product — it has to be freely redistributable, not discriminatory in its licensing, with source code available, etc.
To that end, the programs already listed in the Open Source Living Directory are something of a “who’s who” of open-source success stories: Firefox, OpenOffice, 7-Zip, and so on.
A fair number of Mac-specific open-source programs are also featured: Camino, Vienna, and NeoOffice.
The layout and design of the site are friendly and clean; it doesn’t look like something that was thrown together in an afternoon.
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November 27, 2007 - 11:41 am - Posted by Banana Hammr
The development team over at Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.10 and as always, it’s highly recommended that you upgrade your install right away because of the security fixes.
The following security issues were fixed:
- Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition
- Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10)
- jar: URI scheme XSS hazard
Firefox 2.0.0.10 seems to be a lot more stable and not using as much memory. Maybe they’ve finally got the memory leaks under control?
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October 20, 2007 - 3:29 pm - Posted by Banana Hammr
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.8 and it’s highly recommended that you upgrade your install right away because of a nice list of security fixes.
The following security issues were fixed:
- URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows
- XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object
- Possible file stealing through sftp protocol
- XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
- File input focus stealing vulnerability
- Browser digest authentication request splitting
- onUnload Tailgating
- Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)
Firefox 2.0.0.8 is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins.
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