Tag Archives: Firefox

Firefox Send has been abandoned

[German]Short information for users of the service Firefox Send. Mozilla is now finally abandoning Firefox Send and stopping this service. The reason is abuse for malware spreading and spear phishing.

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Firefox 80.0.0 and 78.2.0 esr released

[German]Mozilla's developers have released the Firefox browser version 80.0.0, as well as 78.2.0 esr on August 25, 2020. Firefox 80 is a new development branch, which is intended to fix both vulnerabilities and bugs.

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Firefox 79.0.0 and 78.1.0 esr released

[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 79.0. of the Firefox browser (as well as the 78.1.0 esr) on 29 July 2020. These are maintenance updates that fix both vulnerabilities and bugs.

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Firefox 78.0.2 and 78.0.2 esr released

[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 78.0.2 of the Firefox browser, as well as the 78.0.2 esr, as of July 9, 2020, which are maintenance updates that fix both vulnerabilities and bugs.

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‘Firefox Send’ offline after abused by Malware

[German]Mozilla's developers have implemented the Firefox Send service for encrypted file transfer in a browser. After the service was abused for spreading malware via short links, the service is taken temporarily offline.

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Firefox Version 78.0.1 released

[German] Mozilla's developers have released version 78.0.0, the Firefox browser, on July 1, 2020. Now the developers have already announced the version 78.0.1.

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Firefox 78, 78esr and 68.10.0esr available

[German]Mozilla's developers have released version 78.0.0, also in the esr variant, of the Firefox browser as of June 30, 2020. This is a new main version of the browser with long-term support (esr). In addition there is the Firefox 68.10.0esr.

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Edge imports Firefox data without user consent

[German]Since Microsoft's new Chromium Edge browser was released for Windows, there have been complaints from users that the Edge browser unsolicitedly imports data from Firefox (or other browsers) during installation without user consent.

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Firefox 75: Telemetry reports the default browser to Mozilla

[German]The just released Firefox 75 comes in the Windows version with a nasty surprise. A telemetry function transmits daily the used operating system as well as the standard browser to Mozilla.

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Firefox 75 and 68.7.0esr released

[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 75.0.0 and the version and 68.7.0esr of the Firefox browser on April 7, 2020. These are new major updates for the browser. Addition: Information from the release notes added.

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