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Mozilla originally showed off its Metro style Firefox browser for Windows 8 back in October, but the company has started to distribute it in the latest nightly builds this week. Like Chrome, with Firefox for Windows 8 you’ll need to set the browser as the default one to access the “Metro style” version. This allows Firefox to run in Microsoft’s new Windows 8 environment.

We tried it out on Windows 8 this week, and it’s clear the version available is in the very early stages of release. Tabs are functional, alongside the ability to pin and favorite sites, but the settings are somewhat limited. We found that if you use the Windows 8 search Charm within Firefox it will, oddly enough, use Microsoft’s Bing search engine rather than Google…

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To state that the Android-powered OUYA game console has actually amassed some major attention is a hell of an understatement, which ’ s sure to be the case as developer units keep seeping out into the wild. As it turns out, it ’ s not just game devs that are getting some hands-on time here — some of the folks at Mozilla could be working on getting a variation of its Firefox mobile web browser up and running on the game-centric dice in short order.

The news comes courtesy of Ed Krassenstein, an administrator for OUYAforum.com. According to him, a Mozilla developer connected to him earlier today to speak briefly about the procedure of bringing the web browser to the OUYA platform:

We ’ re investigating what we should do to make Firefox useful on Ouya. It already works and we have some initial patches for gamepad support, however there ’ s still fairly a little work to be done to make it really usable. Part of this work will be making certain that WebGL and Canvas support carries out well on the device, and making certain that the appropriate APIs (such as Gamepad API) are additionally supported

The platform certainly provides some … fascinating obstacles, thanks primarily to its non-standard control scheme. After all, lots of individuals have scrolled down a website on a smartphone screen, however I ’ d wager the lot of folks who have doinged this with the help of a full-size game controller is considerably smaller sized. Still, the reality that some Mozillians have actually currently worked to surmount that specific stumbling block is heartening news for fans of third-party Android web browsers.

Krassenstein ’ s preliminary post didn ’ t provide a name for the confidential Mozillian he had actually talked with, but he at some point confirmed that it was Chris Lord, a Mozilla mobile platform engineer who took place to tweet an image of a Firefox develop running on an OUYA earlier today (see above). Given, it doesn ’ t actually work very well — Lords notes that it ’ s “ kinda pointless ” for the time being — but it ’ s a step in the right instructions at least. Lords additionally revealed on Twitter that a gentleman called Kats (aka Mozilla software dev Kartikaya Gupta) is mucking around with Firefox for the OUYA too, though there ’ s no word on how many others (if at all) are spending time on this.

Normally, this job is in its very early phases, and there ’ s no guaranteeing that a last, fully-compatible version of the browser will ever actually appear to OUYA owners, however it appears like things are off to an appealing beginning. And hi — they ’ ve still got a couple of months before OUYA ’ s official release, so there ’ s a chance an OUYA-optimized variation of the web browser can debut right in that launch window.

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It’s far from the initial time that computer individuals have been alerted to disable Java, however this newest security concern has actually increased to some high levels at a particularly rapid speed. After initial being stated by security researchers on Thursday, the United States Pc Emergency Readiness Team (or US-CERT, a part of the Homeland Security division) stepped in with a caution of its own on Friday, which candidly recommended that all pc users must turn off Java in their web internet browsers (for its part, Oracle states that a fix is coming “soon”). The flaw itself is a vulnerability in the Java Safety Supervisor, which an attacker can exploit to run code on an individual’s computer.

Not content to await a fix, some business have actually currently taken actions to shut out feasible exploits. That includes Apple, which has added current variations of Java to its blacklist covering all OS X individuals, and Mozilla, which has actually allowed its “Click To Play” functionality in Firefox for all current versions of Java across all platforms (it was formerly only made it possible for by default for older versions of Java). Apple’s step follows an earlier decision to remove the Java plug-in from browsers in OS X 10.7 and up last autumn. You could discover the full alert released by US-CERT and extra details on the vulnerability at the links below.

Filed under: Net, SoftwareCommentsVia: The VergeSource: US-CERT

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