That’s the famous Googleplex. A place many dream to work at.

But why? Is it their brilliant ideas or os it the alternative office workspace that Google practices? Either way I would love to work for them someday.

Today, Google is not longer the pioneer in alternative office workspaces, familiar companies like Facebook, Flickr, Mozilla, LinkedIn and many others are coming up with impressive office workspaces too to bring out the best in their employees.

If you need a glimpse of what these offices look like, Office Snapshots has an impressive collection of snapshots of workspaces

Trust me, after looking at them. What we have in Malaysia feels like a factory. Seriously.

Firefox 2.0.0.13 has just been released. It fixes a few security issues.

XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect 2008-17
Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution

If the auto update does not work for you, download the latest Firefox.

Source: Mozilla | Mozilla Security Advisories

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena.

As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. Currently Firefox 3 has managed to beat Firefox 2 and IE7 by working around the 100MB mark after loading and unloading 30 random web pages. The graph below will speak for itself, at peak (30 pages) IE7 was consuming around 500MB while Firefox 2 hovered around 280MB and Firefox 3 steadily working around 200MB.

IE8 is said to attention the memory issue but till then it’s looks like the road is clear for Firefox 3.

If you are interested in running the benchmark, there’s a python script which will load open and load 30 random pages for you. Run the benchmark here or download the script.

Download Firefox 3 Beta 4

Source: Paulou.net [ Stuart Parmenter (Mozilla Developer) ]

Mozilla has released it’s latest beta release of Firefox 3. Firefox 3 Beta 3.

Some of the new features include improved security through better user tracking, malware detection, stricter SSL rules and also anti virus support for the built in download manager. The download manager also benefits from some  changes, resume is now supported, a new search functionality and a new progress indicator in the status bar. Vista, Mac OS X and Linux will also see better integration from Firefox.

If you are feeling adventurous, Firefox 3 Beta 3 is currently available for download at Mozilla.

Please keep in mind that beta releases are not intended for the general public as there will be numerous undiscovered bugs and plugin compatibility issues. Beta releases are mainly targeted for testers and developers.

Source: Mozilla Blog

Mozilla has release a new version of the popular Firefox web browser. Version 2.0.0.12.

This release fixes some important security vulnerabilities that were discovered in 2.0.0.11.

MFSA 2008-11  Web forgery overwrite with div overlay
MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering
MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing
MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI
MFSA 2008-04 Stored password corruption
MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution
MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities
MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12)

Download the latest version of Firefox here.

Source: Mozilla