Hehe. This is extremely funny. Somebody posted a prank about a high school student getting detention for using firefox. It ended up on slashdot. Actually, It was a hoax.
 btw, the school district in question is only like five minutes from my place.
Hmm.. Apple’s announcement to release the Safari browser for Windows wasn’t exactly what a lot of some people were hoping expecting to hear, and given the number of complaints and problems with installing and running Safari on Windows, I think I’ll stick with IE 7 and Firefox.
Slashdot is reporting that Mozilla developers are having a bad month. New vulnerabilities are being discovered on a daily basis. Browse the web more securely, get Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. 
It’s finally here. Microsoft has released version 7.0 of the popular Internet Explorer web browser. I haven’t downloaded it yet, but I have tried beta and release candidates of IE 7.0, and although in the beginning it crashed frequently, I must admit that the latest release candidate was stable and very easy to use. Firefox has some real competition now, and I don’t expect the Internet Explorer team to sit back and relax now that they have released IE 7.0. Firefox’s growing share of the browser market has got the IE team alive and roaring. 
Competition is good.
USAToday.com writes:
A hacker who claimed to have found a serious zero-day bug in Firefox now says he was never able to exploit the supposed vulnerability to hijack computers.
Ha! I’ll bet he feels dumb.
News.com is reporting that a pair of hackers has discovered a zero-day flaw in the increasingly popular firefox browser.
The flaw is specific to Firefox’s implementation of JavaScript, a 10-year-old scripting language widely used on the Web. In particular, various programming tricks can cause a stack overflow error, Spiegelmock said. The implementation is a “complete mess,” he said. “It is impossible to patch.”
Impossible to patch?? Wow!! I find that hard to believe. I guess we shall see how long it takes for the Firefox team to patch this flaw. The hackers also mentioned they know of about 30 unpatched Firefox flaws, but they wouldn’t release any details about what the remaining flaws were. I’ll bet it’s a sad day for the Mozilla team.
Linuxinsider.com is reporting that Mozilla is postponing the release of Firefox 2.0 Beta to later this week. Hmmm… I guess Microsoft isn’t the only company that has delays……..
