Category Archives: browser

Firefox 71/68.3esr: Profile issues and bugs during upgrade

Posted on 2019-12-04 by guenni

[German]On December 3, 2019 Mozilla’s developers released the next major version 71 as well as the 68.3esr of the Firefox browser. The update does not work for all users. Some users are claiming damaged/deleted profiles and lost addons. Here is … Continue reading →

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Mozilla removed Firefox Addons from AVG/AVAST

Posted on 2019-12-04 by guenni

[German]Mozilla developers have blocked (removed) AVG and AVAST antivirus addons in Firefox from Mozilla addon store. The probable reason: The addons of this provider (AVAST) must have passed on private data. Addenum: A statement from AVAST has been added. Advertising

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Google Chrome vulnerability CVE-2019-13667 in iOS-App

Posted on 2019-12-04 by guenni

Security researchers have found a CVE-2019-13667 vulnerability in the Google Chrome iOS app prior to version 77.0.3865.75 that allows remote attack. Advertising

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Firefox 71 and 68.3.0esr released

Posted on 2019-12-03 by guenni

[German]Mozilla’s developer just (December 3, 2019) released version 71 (and 68.3.0 ESR) of the Firefox browser. It is a major version and a maintenance update for 68.3.0. Here is a brief overview of what changes in the new version. Advertising

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Desktop Browser/Operating System Market Share 11.2019

Posted on 2019-12-02 by guenni

[German]November is over, and it’s time to have another look at the operating system and browser share on the desktop. How its about Windows 7 on the desktop two months before the end of support? And what’s about Windows 10? … Continue reading →

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Chrome 78.0.3904.108 released

Posted on 2019-11-20 by guenni

[German]Google released a security update for Chrome 78.0.3904.108 on November 18, 2019. This update patches 5 security vulnerabilities, two of which are critical and returns the context menu command ‘Close other tab’. Advertising

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Chrome, Edge, Office, VMware ESXi hacked at TMC 2019

Posted on 2019-11-18 by guenni

[German]The TMC 2019 took place in Chengdu, China, on the weekend of 16-17 November 2019. It is a hacker competition (TifanCup 2019), where the best hacker teams of China compete against each other. Once again, there were a lot of … Continue reading →

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Experimental Chrome feature has caused crashes

Posted on 2019-11-15 by guenni

[German]Google’s developers have rolled out some experimental feature to some of its chrome users. But this went wrong and making enterprise customers going nuts. Suddenly, users couldn’t access websites anymore or the tabs were white due to browser crashes. Advertising

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Tor-Browser 9.0.1 released

Posted on 2019-11-06 by guenni

On November 4, 2019, the developers updated the Tor browser to version 9.0.1. This is a maintenance update that fixes several bugs and updates components. Advertising

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Firefox 70.0.1 released

Posted on 2019-11-02 by guenni

[German]Mozilla’s developer has released version 70.0.1 of the Firefox browser on October 31, 2019. This is a maintenance update, that fixes the dynamic JavaScript elements bug. Advertising

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