A beta release of Firefox 3.1 is expected during the next month and it will reject cookies got in the private session. It doesn’t record sites visited disable, automatically remove downloads with Firefox’s download manager and auto-filling of passwords.

It Mozilla’s plan to present a private mode for quite some time, but now after the positive reaction to IE8’s InPrivate modes and Chrome’s Incognito positive reaction ,now the things are quite faster from Mozliia.

Mike Connor, who is Firefox lead developer, says: “we will surely do it into 3.1 using one or the other way.”

Google Chrome looks nice with its neat and clean appearance and so far Google’s decision to show the browser tabs to the top of windows is concerned, it’s not odd at all as we are quite use to them under the very name of address window in IE and Firefox. However, you have to push mouse cursor a little higher to close the tab and that’s why the insufficiency of mouse gestures is somewhat frustrating.

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Though there are already enough information, Google just wrapped up its press conference where the company told in details why did they create a new web browser. You will have related details soon.

The release had to delay as visitors overloaded Firefox’s Web server to check for the update. According to AlertSite which is an Internet performance observing company, the site was almost unreachable for almost two hours that started about 12:45 pm Eastern time which was 15 minutes earlier than the told release time. AlertSite further told that the performance was better later in the day.

Launch parties were organized by Firefox supporters around the world as they tried to make a new world record of most software downloads during the period of 24-hour.
This is a new category and Guinness World Records must take a week or longer to certify it.

Mozilla, the driving force behind Firefox, is an open-source community where a large number of people mostly volunteers develop free products together. After Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer, Firefox is the second most popular Web browser.

There are some new additions in this Firefox 3 that assist users to maintain their frequently visited Web sites and block access to those sites that disseminate viruses and other harmful software.

Yahoo Inc.’s mail services users can also use Firefox 3 just by clicking “mailto”, there are some other improvements related to design and speed that have been offered by Firefox 3.

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“If you visit a malicious site using Firefox 3, it will block the site and do it with a user interface that doesn’t allow a click-through,” said Window Snyder of Mozilla Corporation.

Firefox gets an updated list of malware sites from Google every 30 minutes, and that the final release may allow or include other blacklist providers.

Mozilla’s commitment to security in Firefox includes a vision beyond specific security features and affects the overall design of the software. Convenience features, like the ability to restore multiple browser tabs to their state when the application was last closed also served to enhance security by making patching less disruptive.

“I really do believe that every feature is a security feature and should be evaluated as such,” says Window Snyder of Mozilla Corporation.

Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group issued a report last month   concluding that the vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox were compared over three years. He found that Microsoft experienced less vulnerability than Firefox.

“While the data trends show that both Internet Explorer and Firefox security quality is improved in the latest version, it also demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, Internet Explorer has experienced fewer vulnerabilities than Firefox”, said Jones.

It implies that fewer vulnerabilities means better security. Window Synder however opts a different correlation. She prefers “days at risk” instead. It is actually the number of days between the appearance of exploit code for vulnerability and the publication of a patch as way to assess security. This correlation equation goes in favor of Firefox, having been at risk for only nine days in 2006, according to numbers compiled by ‘Brian Krebs’ of “The Washington Post”, who reported that Internet Explorer in 2006 was vulnerable for 284 days.

Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s Vice President of Engineering, in a blog post impress upon a cognizant concept having a similar point. “Bug counts are meaningless”, says Mike Schroefer.

He points to the absence of a public IE bug database and says this is “a vivid reminder that there is no way for anyone outside of Microsoft to confirm how much vulnerability ever existed in Internet Explorer”.

Microsoft works with penetration testers and outsider security consultants, the company does not disclose the vulnerabilities found. “They talk about the security work that they do, but there’s no way to check it,” Synder said.