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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Anubis, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, and More
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Xe's Blog ☛ Anubis continues to expose new ways people configure webservers
TL;DR: if admins turn off browser features, those features won't work in confusing ways that are annoying to debug
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Security Week ☛ Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities
Google and Mozilla on Tuesday announced fresh Chrome and Firefox security updates that address multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities.
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Jamie Zawinski ☛ Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 30 years ago today
As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a 3.0 release based on the Collabra rewrite, but that new team face-planted so badly that we had to pretend this bugfix release was a feature release instead, and the Collabra shitshow eventually became the disastrous "4.0" release (with intervening "3.01" and "3.02" bugfix releases nearly a year after the 3.0 release!)
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Harry Roberts ☛ Unattributed Navigation Overhead (UNO) Is Underrated
UNO is a residual rather than a browser-provided metric. We calculate it by starting with the full navigation-to-first-byte duration and subtracting the known phases: UNO = TTFB − redirect − DNS − connection − request-to-response-start
The connection phase already includes secure connection setup, so you don’t need to subtract TLS a second time. If your tooling splits TCP and TLS for display, those two parts should add back up to the full connection phase used in the calculation.
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ a filename when none exists
Starting in curl 8.10.0, curl works a little harder to come up with a filename to store the download in when -O is used. While there is no filename part in the URL, the user did ask curl to download the URL to a local file so it now tries a few extra steps: [...]
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Support.Mozilla.Org: Firefox new release cadence and what to expect
Some of you may have heard about this change from the announcement the team shared in early July, but Firefox is moving to a two-week release cycle. The first release on the new cadence is Firefox 155 on September 1, 2026, two weeks earlier than the originally planned September 15 release.
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