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Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-like-to-catch-phish dept.

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."

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  1. Netscape by muhgcee · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait, let me get this straight. Netscape is still putting out releases? Why?

  2. IE is always last. by fa_king · · Score: 0, Troll

    Looks like Microsoft (IE) will have to play catch up again. You will soon here this amazing new technology in Vista, or not so new.......

  3. COC9K by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shout5 To 7he

  4. Re:Good on ya by frinkacheese · · Score: -1, Troll

    It most likely was not really using 200Mb of memory. It's far more likely that you simply do not know how Linux memory management works and what the figures in 'ps' mean..

  5. mod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of BSD/OS.T A

  6. Re:Good on ya by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah, goody, the Firefox white-wash moderator crowd has shown up, modding down ANYTHING that dares to point out the GLARING flaws in Firefox. It's too bad we lost MozillaQuest, they were one of the very few webpages that dared point out the truth about Firefox. (It's still around, but they haven't covered Mozilla since 1.1.)