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Mozilla Rewriting A Lot Of Code For Upcoming Firefox V3

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 18, 2007

“Mozilla programmers are rewriting a lot of the Firefox code for
the upcoming version release of the open-source browser, according
to the head of product security at Mozilla.

“Most of the components in the current version of Firefox are
being touched, said Window Snyder, ‘chief security
something-or-other’ at Mozilla. She added that programmers are
replacing a lot of older code to increase performance, make the
code base more modular and handle new security threats, like
phishing and malicious Web sites…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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