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Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3

Christopher Finke — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:44:21 +0000

Navigator 9.0.0.3 has been released, bringing it up to par with Firefox 2.0.0.9. Blog post here; Propeller.com discussion here; download it here.

Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.1

Christopher Finke — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:28:59 +0000

We released Navigator 9.0.0.1 this morning; blog post is here, Propeller.com discussion is here.

Netscape Navigator 9.0 Released

Christopher Finke — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:01:24 +0000

The final, official release of Netscape Navigator 9.0 is now available. The official blog post is here; the Propeller discussion is here.

This marks the end of a 4-month beta period for Navigator 9; I am not sorry to see it go. On to 9.something-thats-not-zero!

Netscape Navigator 9.0 RC 1

Christopher Finke — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:26:14 +0000

Release Candidate 1 of Netscape Navigator 9 is out. We took out the social integration, but we'll be releasing those parts as Propeller extensions.

Netscape Navigator 9 Beta 3 Released

Christopher Finke — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:53:59 +0000

Netscape Navigator 9 Beta 3 has been released. Read about it at the Netscape blog.

Netscape Navigator 9 Beta 2 Released

Christopher Finke — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:41:59 +0000

We released the second beta of Netscape Navigator 9 today. Much praise to Richard for taking the lead on development and the roadmap this round.

Pownce has a big security problem

Christopher Finke — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:29:42 +0000

Kevin Rose's latest project, Pownce, has a glaring security problem on its front page. The JavaScript that Pownce uses in its login form can reveal your password in plain text on the screen. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem in Firefox:

Login to Pownce via http://www.pownce.com/. Allow Firefox to save your login information for next time, and then log out.
Navigate to http://www.pownce.com/ and type the first part of your username in the "Enter username..." box. Firefox will supply all of the matching usernames it remembers for this site. (So far, so good.)
Select your username and press return to have the browser autofill the rest of your information. Oh look, there's your Pownce password in plain view! I hope no one in the room was watching you login...

The method that Pownce is using to show the "Enter password..." prompt in the password field is the reason for this malfunction; browsers force all text in password fields to be hidden with asterisks, so if you want to show normal text in a password field like Pownce has chosen to, you have to do so in a non-standard way.

This bug affects Firefox and Netscape users who have JavaScript enabled, but it doesn't affect Safari users.

Is Digg hiding stories from search?

Christopher Finke — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:26:40 +0000

This link to the Navigator 9 download page was submitted to Digg around noon on Tuesday and received 10 diggs over the next 24 hours. A story about a Firefox-based browser release submitted by a top-100 Digger? That sounds like possible front-page material to me - why only 10 diggs? Maybe it's because the story was excluded from Digg's search results: it doesn't appear in results for netscape or navigator. Is it possible that it was buried, and that's why it's not in the regular results?

No, it doesn't appear in the search results for buried stories either. In fact, I can't find it at all by searching on Digg. Has Digg instituted some sort of double secret probation for stories it doesn't want its users finding?