WordPress 2.8.2 has been released, a quick update which fixes an XSS vulnerability: comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin backend, which could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin dashboard to another site. Download 2.8.2 from here.
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WordPress has just released an update to their popular blog-software: WordPress 2.8.1. Aside from the usual bug fixes, this update addresses a security issue where admin pages created by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users. In other notes, the update reduces the memory usage of the dashboard (always welcome!), improves the automatic upgrade [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, the creative minds behind Mozilla Labs have launched the open source project Jetpack to the FireFox community. Jetpack is an API which enables designers and developers to write add-ons using HTML, CSS and Javascript, encouraging more and more developers to join the 8,000+ people strong add-on community. The Mozilla Labs [...]
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FireFox, one of the most popular browsers on the market, has been updated to version 3.5 yesterday. Based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, this browser promises to be about twice as fast as FireFox 3 (and 10x faster than FF2!), to support new technologies, improve its performance and be even easier to use than [...]
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WordPress 2.8 has been released just a few days ago. Here are the most notable features of 2.8: New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns Allow configuring the number of [...]
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Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox has reached beta. Mozilla’s answer to the browser wars on mobile devices is here to provide its standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others, and is going to be a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on [...]
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The never-sleeping minds from Mozilla Labs (who just gave us Bespin a few months back) have recently announced the the introduction of Mozilla Personas, light-weight skins allowing users to “dress up” the look of their favourite browser via an addon. After installing Personas and restarting FireFox you are able to install skins via a new [...]
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Adobe announced in February this year that its latest version of Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player has been released for beta testing. This new player will enable developers and integrators to create rich, expressive applications targeted to the latest version of Adobe’s Flash technology, with the ability to distribute their apps including the runtime installer [...]
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