Monday, July 26, 2010

Firefox 3.6 will be shielded malicious plug-in



Firefox (Firefox) browser, Mozilla developers said Tuesday, the official version of Firefox 3.6 release, it will add a mask malicious plug-in features to enhance the stability of Firefox running.

Mozilla said that Firefox 3.6 will increase called "component directory lock" the new feature, namely the prohibition of outside developers access to the Firefox components directory plug-ins. It is reported that Firefox most of them run the code in the directory. Mozilla that the Firefox 3.6 version add the locking feature, will improve the operational stability of the product.

Firefox front-end development team director Jonathan Nightingale (Johnathan Nightingale) Tuesday said: "We decided to add plug-in access lock function, mainly to improve the operational stability of Firefox." He also said that from Firefox 3.6 version, outside developers have clearly stated in its plug-in version of the Firefox application is not up to the requestor, Mozilla will be shielded.

Nightingale said that as the Firefox 3.6 version will no longer allow access to components external plug-in directory, external developers to write plug-ins in the future need to re-code, which must be based on XPI file format. Nightingale said that although the majority of external plug-in for the sake of users, but there are a small number of malicious plug-in gives users the stability problem, "users to install malicious plug-in, it will encounter other normal functions can not use Firefox, slow down or even collapse of the behavior is running. "

Nightingale and failed to criticize Which plug-ins can cause Firefox to run unstable. Middle of last month, but Mozilla said, because Microsoft released two plug-in for Firefox NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation security risks exist, the network may take the offender to attack, Mozilla Firefox in the decision to shield these two Microsoft plug-in normal use.

Mozilla has said it will try to release before the end of this year, the official version of Firefox 3.6. U.S. Net Applications, Internet traffic monitoring statistics released earlier this month, this year in October during Microsoft's IE browser market share worldwide in September of 65.71% down to 64.64 percent, over the same period the corresponding Firefox market share of 23.75% in September increased to 24.07%.







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