Mozilla reports that both of these holes are already actively being exploited, making them so-called zero-day bugs, which means, in simple terms, that the crooks got there first: Renai LeMay of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.On Saturday, Mozilla published Firefox 97.0.2, an “out-of-band” update that closed two bugs officially listed as critical. The company's competitor Yahoo released a Firefox version of its own toolbar in February.
"We really appreciate the work you folks did to fill this gap in our products for so long," the e-mail said, adding that a current link to the GoogleBar project on Google's toolbar Web site will be maintained, "so users can make the choice of which toolbar they'd like to install."Ī representative for Google was not immediately available to comment on the e-mail. Pop-up blocking is a built-in feature of Firefox. "It has pretty much the same features as the latest IE toolbar except of course for things like the pop-up blocker," the e-mail said. The latter is likely to encompass the more recent releases of popular Linux distributions like SuSE, Red Hat and Mandrake, several of which are at release versions eight or above. More specific details are also provided the e-mail said the software will work on Microsoft's Windows 2000 and XP platforms, Mac OS X 10.2 and "Linux 8.0+". The e-mail stated that July 7 is the likely release date for the toolbar, and asks the developers to hold off commenting to the press until the company sends out its own statement the day before. "I thought I'd drop you a note to give a heads up on something Google will be releasing next week: a version of our Internet Explorer toolbar for Firefox," the e-mail reads. However, an e-mail to GoogleBar developers-sent under the name of Google engineer Fritz Schneider and dated July 1-refers to the proposed Firefox toolbar. Users of open-source alternatives have, until now, used the GoogleBar-an independent project which emulates most of the Google toolbar features. Google is poised to release a version of its toolbar for the Firefox browser, according to information sent to developers of an open-source toolbar alternative.Īlthough Google's toolbar-which provides users with easy access to advanced functionality such as spellchecking and translation-has been available for Internet Explorer for more than four years, this is the first version to appear for users of the Firefox browser, developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
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