Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology

Mitchell Bronze writes "Mozilla's Mike Shaver said in an interview that the upcoming Firefox 2 will have anti-phishing capability using technology that might come from Google." From the article: "With the continued rise in online attacks, security tools have become something Web browser makers can use to try to stand out. Microsoft plans to include features to protect Web surfers against online scams in Internet Explorer 7, due later in 2006. Similar functionality is already in Netscape 8 and Opera 8, both released last year. 'It is another example of the energy that has returned to the browser market,' Shaver said."

Comments

Yeay?

[firl]

I dunno about you but, phishing always seems so easy to identify. I can see it being very good for the grandma's out there, but some of the things I like about firefox is the fact that its lightweight (when tuned correctly) If things like this keep happening could turn into a cluster

svelte?

[Chineseyes]

svelte? you must be kidding me I've got 3 tabs open no flash installed no adobe installed or running and the caching "feature" turned off and firefox is still consuming 400MB of RAM and increasing albeit more slowly. When I had the caching "feature" turned on firefox would regualrly bloat up to 3GB and completely consume all of my main memory and then kill my VM. How about they just continue on with the 1.X line and fix these memory issues before going onto 2.X? Just a thought.

Re:Microsoft anti-phishing?

[9-bits.tk]

Site Blocked: www.yahoo.com has been placed on a list of sites that link to potentially unsafe and/or phishing websites. Well, it's one way to get rid of the competition.