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Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer
March 10, 2020Shravan Narayan, Eric Rahm, Nathan Froyd, Craig Disselkoen, Tal Garfinkel, Sorin Lerner, Hovav Shacham, Deian StefanPrivacy, security & trackingTo enhance security, Firefox is transitioning to a new architecture that isolates third-party libraries in sandboxes, reducing vulnerability risks.
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Actions speak louder than words: Semi-supervised learning for browser fingerprinting detection
March 9, 2020Martin Lopatka, David Zeber, Rob Willoughby, Sarah Bird, Vikas Mishra, Walter Rudametkin, Steven Englehardt -
Hardening Firefox against Injection Attacks
Feb. 3, 2020Frederik Braun, Christoph Kerschbaumer, Tom RitterPrivacy, security & trackingWeb browsers display content using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which can be untrusted and potentially malicious. Firefox uses these same technologies for both its interface and web content, creating security challenges.
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Debris: Intermingling ethnography with design and artistic practice
Jan. 27, 2020Heather McGeachy, Daria Loi -
“This Browser is Lightning Fast”: The Effects of Message Content on Perceived Performance
Dec. 1, 2019Jess Hohenstein, Bill Selman, Rebecca Weiss, Gemma Petrie, Jofish Kaye -
An Empirical Study of DLL Injection Bugs in the Firefox Ecosystem
Dec. 1, 2019Le An, Marco Castelluccio, Foutse Khomh -
An Empirical Study of Patch Uplift in Rapid Release Development Pipelines
Dec. 1, 2019Le An, Marco Castelluccio, Foutse Khomh -
Federated Learning for Ranking Browser History Suggestions
Nov. 26, 2019Sunah Suh, Arkadiusz Komarzewski, Tim D. Smith, Florian Hartmann, Ilana SegallPrivacy, security & tracking -
*Privacy Included: Rethinking the Smart Home
Nov. 12, 2019Sam Burton, Solana Larsen, Stefan Baack, Kasia OdrozekInternet health / Privacy, security & trackingThis special edition of the Internet Health Report is published as a companion to Mozilla’s 2019 *Privacy Not Included buyer’s guide. It is based on conversations with more than two dozen people working from different angles to better the global ecosystem for smart home devices.
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Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
Nov. 11, 2019Benton Case, James Kasten, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Rescorla, Peter Eckersley, Seth Schoen, Alan Flores-López, Brad Warren, Josh Aas, J. Alex Halderman, Richard Barnes, Jacob Hoffman-AndrewsPrivacy, security & tracking