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Yesterday, Mozilla announced that one of the community built add-ons hosted by Mozilla contained remnants from a virus called W32/Xorer.A, also known as W32/Fujacks!htm.
After reading several dozen articles and blog posts covering that announcement, I thought I’d post a short a follow-up here in response to a few of the misunderstandings that I came [...]

Security Metrics that Matter

A number of press articles surrounding Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, and other recent similar reports from Cenzic and Secunia, are offering the confusing and incorrect conclusion that the effective security and safety of web browsers can be measured by simply counting the number of vendor disclosed software flaws.
At Mozilla, we’re concerned that this [...]

When It’s Ready

Last week, a number of articles and blog posts noted that we had added another Firefox Beta (the 4th) to our schedule. Most of the Beta 4 mentions were made in articles and posts that were more heavily focused on the upcoming release of Beta 3 but several did investigate (or at least speculate) and [...]

Welcome to the For the Record blog

Welcome to the new For the Record blog.
For the Record is a Mozilla community program for discovering, cataloging, and responding to what’s being said about Mozilla online.
We also want to make it easier for people to talk/report/blog about Mozilla by providing a collection of answers to frequently asked questions and responses to [...]