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• Monday Grok: Google, Firefox and antitrust

  Remember when we told you last year that Google was about to kill Firefox. Well in case you weren't paying attention - and for the record - Grok got that horribly, horribly wrong.

• Wednesday Grok: Google is about to kill Firefox

  When was the last time you even noticed which browser you used, and frankly why would you care? They all will pretty much get you from 01000001 to 01000010 on the Web as quick as you click.

• Getting secure with Mantra: An open source penetration testing kit

  Mantra is an open source, browser-based framework for penetration testing and security assessments. It's based on Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, so it's cross-platform, and it's part of the Open Web Application Security Project -- OWASP.

• Mozilla patches 16 security bugs in Firefox 3.6

  Mozilla on Tuesday patched 16 vulnerabilities, nine of them critical, in Firefox 3.6, the largest update for the open-source browser since March.

• Mozilla yanks password-stealing Firefox add-on

  Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped into Firefox's extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected.

• IBM says 'I do' to Firefox

  Chalk up a huge win for Firefox in the war against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – IBM is telling all of its 400,000 employees to make Firefox their default Web browser.

• Mozilla intern touts tricks to give Firefox the illusion of speed

  An interface designer interning at Mozilla has suggested that the company mimic gimmicks in Google's Chrome to make users think Firefox starts up faster.

• Privacy add-ons merged to create powerful tool for Web browsers

  A browser extension for Firefox has been combined with a set of privacy applications that give users more control over how their personal information is shared online.

• Internet Explorer 8 gains at expense of Chrome and Firefox

  The results are out from the latest Net Applications survey of Web browser market share, and Google continues to capture market share and headlines with its Chrome Web browser. Drilling down into the stats, though, and looking behind the curtain reveals that real winner in the market share department is Internet Explorer 8.

• Mozilla sidesteps iPhone ban on rival browsers

  Mozilla plans to submit an application to Apple's iPhone App Store next month, but it won't be a full-fledged Firefox browser, the company said Wednesday.

• Firefox trumps Chrome in 'active' user gains, Mozilla director argues

  Firefox is beating Google's Chrome where it counts, in the number of users running each browser, a Mozilla executive argued Thursday.

• Mozilla CEO Lilly to step down

  Mozilla CEO John Lilly will leave the nonprofit company as soon as it can find a replacement, ending his more than two years at the helm of the maker of Firefox.

• Mozilla wants to make Firefox a speedster

  Mozilla, with its planned Firefox 4 browser, intends to make the browser "super-duper fast" and enable use of standard Web technologies including HTML5 and beyond, a Mozilla official said in a blog entry this week.

• Mozilla discloses more Firefox flaws

  Mozilla patched more than one vulnerability in Firefox when it updated the browser to version 3.6.2 on Monday, the company confirmed today.

• Mozilla retracts Firefox add-on malware claim

  Mozilla today acknowledged that it had falsely accused a developer of infecting a Firefox add-on with attack code.