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internetnews.com: Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 31, 2006

“Mozilla has reached the latest development milestone for its
next-generation Firefox 2.0 ‘Bon Echo’ browser with a little
anti-phishing help from Google.

“Anti-phishing capability, which Mozilla has branded ‘Safe
Browsing,’ is one of the marquee features in Firefox 2.0 and one of
the reasons a third alpha is necessary. Now baked into Firefox 2.0
alpha 3, Google Safe Browsing is triple-licensed under the Mozilla
Public License (MPL) 1.1, the GPL 2.0, and the LGPL…”

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