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Mozilla VP Talks the State of Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-fox-up-to dept.

lisah writes "As Firefox downloads pass the 200 million mark, people are talking about how its security features stack up against IE7 and protect against malware. Mozilla VP Mike Schroepfer told NewsForge's Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier that security will continue to be an issue 'for anything written in native code' but Mozilla intends to meet the challenge by including JavaScript 1.7 with the browser's 2.0 release. Schroepfer also talked about the timeline of future releases and offered just enough information to wet our whistles for 3.0."

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  1. Copy/paste bug STILL not fixed! Arg! by Hamster+Lover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I continue to have problems copying and pasting in web pages within Firefox, and it's not due to some malware that is usually attributed to the problem as I have checked, re-checked and triple checked. It happens at the oddest times and sometimes the copy/paste function works and at other times it does not. I know it was supposed to be fixed two releases ago, but I continue to have problems and it's not just me as my mom has the same problem.

    Firefox also seems to be a huge memory hog, but I gratefully put up with that given that I have had zero security problems since switching completely to Firefox last summer.

  2. Re:my biggest gripe by alexborges · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Double click on it punk

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    NO SIG
  3. Re:my biggest gripe by Kelson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Double-click instead of single-click. It'll highlight the URL much faster than selecting the whole thing manually, and it should still be easy with a trackpad.