what about accessibility? On 5/15/13, Ravindra Jadhav <[email protected]> wrote: > Datamation > 14 May 2013 | Sean Michael Kerner > > Mozilla is out with the Firefox 21 open source browser release today, > fixing at least 8 security vulnerabilities, three of which are rated > as being critical. The new release also provides new features that – > depending on your viewpoint – could either improve or reduce user > privacy. > > One of the new features in Firefox 21 is the Health Report. Mozilla > first began talking about the health report in September of 2012 as a > non-invasive reporting mechanism. The report is intended to deliver > information to users about the 'health' of the browser and its > components. The report also shares that data with Mozilla. > > Johnathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox Engineering at Mozilla, explained > to Datamation that Firefox Health Report is enabled by default in > Firefox 21. > > "Firefox users who don't want to send health data to Mozilla can > disable the data sending either from the health report itself, or from > the 'Data Choices' section in the Firefox options window," Nightingale > said. "Users who turn off the data will still be able to see their own > browser health information." > > Firefox 21 also includes an update to Mozilla's Do Not Track cookie > mechanism. In the Firefox 21 release, users will now have three > choices: “Do Track,” “Do Not Track,” and “No Preference." > > "From its inception, we have built Do Not Track as an expression of > intent," Nightingale said. "By default, we don't send a header at all, > 'No Preference', because we don't know the user's intent." > > He added that the user can choose to express a preference either for, > or against, tracking and from that point forward Firefox will express > that decision to every site they visit. Mozilla's most recent data > shows 17 percent of US users enabling DNT. > > Performance > Performance is an area that Mozilla is constantly pushing with each > new Firefox release, and Firefox 21 is no exception. Nightingale said > that new graphics subsystem changes in Firefox 21 should give the > browser performance wins on mobile and desktop. > > Mozilla developers are now also currently working on the new > OdinMonkey JavaScript engine for a future release of Firefox. "We're > currently testing OdinMonkey on pre-release, but the optimizations it > makes for asm.js code are going to change the world of gaming," > Nightingale said. > > The asm.js JavaScript library enables code to run at native speeds. > It's is already being used to enable the Epic gaming engine for > in-browser games. > > Security Updates > On the security front, Mozilla has issued three critical security > advisories with the Firefox 21 release. All three deal with memory > related vulnerabilities and exploitations. > > Some of the flaws were reported by Google security researchers using > the open source Address Sanitizer tool. > > "Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome > Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series of > use-after-free, out of bounds read, and invalid write problems rated > as moderate to critical as security issues in shipped software," > Mozilla states in its advisory. "Some of these issues are potentially > exploitable, allowing for remote code execution." > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. >
-- Mohib Anwar Rafel M.Phil/Masters in International Law, Center for International Legal Studies JNU. Pursuing Masters of Law, at University of Delhi Phone: 09811767506, 01127666896 Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
