Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 :
“The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can be [...]
One of my buddies just tipped me off to a must-have tab management add-on for Firefox. It’s called FoxTab, and it’s a cross between Mac OS X’s Expose, Windows Vista’s Flip 3D, and the thumbnail view in Google Chrome. When you’ve got a lot of tabs open in Firefox, this offers a quick way to jump [...]
The ongoing problems with Flash freezing in Firefox 3 after two seconds of playback resemble nothing less than a game of hot potato. Or perhaps watching two parents have a screaming match, with us regular ol’ users playing the part of the sobbing kid that cries, “Why can’t you two just get along?”
Adobe has just [...]
Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was expected in Firefox and Opera, thanks to beta versions. Chrome has it, too, calling it the Omnibar. What seems to have caught developers off-guard [...]
Here is how you can get a stick ticker in your Firefox browser (works with 1.0 - 2.0.0.* versions):
Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/183
Click on the green ‘Add to Firefox’ button
Click “Install” on the window that pops up
Restart Firefox to see the ticker appear.
Right-click on the ticker to Edit/Add your favorite stocks
Enjoy!
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.
The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names.
A [...]
It appears that some overzealous engineers at Pakistan Telecom in their bid to block YouTube hijacked its IP routing table by accident. They wanted to make sure pakistani internet users trying to access the site would be redirected. To make it worse, the information was leaked in to the wider internet leading to [...]
Annoying ads? Just block them with Adblock Plus, an addon for Mozilla Firefox. Visit this page to download and install the addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
You can manually block images and ads by right-clicking on the target banner and selecting ‘Adblock Image’. You can block annoying ads automatically by subscribing to one of the autoblock lists available for [...]
