Firefox 2.0.0.19 could have SafeBrowsing disabled

Firefox 2.0.0.19 to have SafeBrowsing disabled

Market sources say that Google has asked Firefox developers to disable the integrated SafeBrowsing feature in the upcoming final edition of Firefox 2.0.0.19.

This is because the search engine giant is no longer supporting this edition of SafeBrowsing which comes in FF2.

The recently editions of Firefox 3 comes with Safe Browsing v2 protocol which Google claims is more efficient and supported.

A company represent was quoted as saying: “Google encourages users to always use the latest version of the software they’re running. Users of Firefox 2 will be notified of the change when they are updated to 2.0.0.19; we recommend that users upgrade to Firefox 3 to continue getting protection. Firefox 3 includes our Safe Browsing v2 protocol which is more efficient with network bandwidth, continues to help protect against phishing, and also adds malware protection.”

We at TechWhack recommend the users who are still on Firefox 2 to update their installations to Firefox 3 to remain safe.

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