Mozilla's Firefox: One-stop for security tips

Mozilla Firefox is easily the most popular Web brower in use and why not, it's a good browser. It also doesn't hurt that Firefox has an army of developers creating nifty add-ons. Even so, any complicated piece of software will still have problems. With that in mind, I’d like to use this page as a gathering point for posts related to Firefox issues, especially those that affect your on-line privacy and security.

1. Firefox3.5: Faster, but add-ons may be broken: Firefox 3.5 is here and it’s fast. Even with my unscientific testing, it was obvious that pages loaded faster, much faster. That’s good.
2. Firefox3.5 vulnerable to JavaScript exploit: A zero-day exploit affecting Firefox 3.5 is on the loose and Mozilla doesn’t have a fix. To make matters worse, the exploit is leveraging a JavaScript vulnerability.
3. Mozilla fixes Firefox in record time: Mozilla was fighting a ticking time bomb in the form of a zero-day exploit targeting Firefox 3.5, their just-released premier Web browser. It's looks like Mozilla was up to the task, releasing Firefox 3.5.1 just 2 days after learning about the vulnerability.
4. Firefox: Some security tips: There are several reasons why Firefox is the Web browser of choice for many of us. Providing a safe Web surfing experience is one of the more important ones. I’d like to offer some tips that will make surfing the Web with Firefox even safer.
5. Technology 101: What is NoScript: JavaScript and Flash are powerful Web-site development tools that can be used to exploit computers. Learn how using Firefox and NoScript can help.
6. Mozilla's Firefox: At risk again: Late yesterday (28 Jul 2009) Mozilla posted an alert on their security blog. The alert pertains to all current versions of Firefox. At issue is a new vulnerability where the URL can be spoofed when a new tab or window is opened.
7. Dispute Finder: Firefox add-on for checking facts: Early in my writing career, I learned the need to verify facts through a teaching moment. In a hurry, I didn’t confirm the source or look for verification of some critical information and that was a mistake.
8. Mozilla Store suffers a security breach: Yesterday (04 Aug 2009), GatewayCDI suffered a security breach. That’s significant because GatewayCDI handles the backend servers for the Mozilla Store.
9. Mozilla Firefox: New updates fix bugs exposed at Black Hat 2009: On Monday (03 Aug 2009) Mozilla patched Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5. Good thing, as two bugs were revealed at Black Hat last week.
10. Mozilla Firefox: Time to update: Mozilla released updates for both versions of Firefox on 10 Sep 2009. Version 3.5.2 moves to 3.5.3 and 3.0.13 is amended to 3.0.14. Mozilla is using these updates to plug several vulnerabilities.
11. Firefox Plug-ins: What are they?: Officially, plug-ins, extensions, and themes are subcategories of add-ons.
     

One last thought: If you know of any new Firefox security issues, please tweet me and I'll add them to the list.