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The next version of Firefox will identify malware on Web sites and make users stop and think about it.
With the number of malicious Web pages mushrooming over the past several months, the Mozilla Foundation is looking to help users defend themselves. Window Snyder, who is Mozilla's "chief security something-or-other," says the company is taking a two-pronged approach.

First, Mozilla developers are working on giving Firefox 3.0, the next version of the open source browser due later this year, the ability to detect malicious code on Web sites that users are trying to access. "In Firefox 2, there's no mechanism that identifies if malware is present," says Snyder.

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Blake Ross,a self taught coder, did internship at the age of 14 at Netscape, when Netscape had almost lost out to IE in the browser war. He then thought of a lean browser Firefox which has now been downloaded by 200 million people and roughly around 7 million people download it each month to discard the unsafe Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.

After founding Firefox one of the biggest open source success stories, he recently unveiled his new venture Parakey, which aims to be the WebOS for masses. Parakey is a small application that you download which converts your computer into a local server, thus allowing you to manage your content easily be it documents, images, videos. This content can then be easily searched or shared on a remote server whenever you are online.

Propelled by the release of its Version 2.0 in October, the free Firefox Web browser saw almost a 50% increase in use during 2006, according to one Web measurement firm.

The open-source Firefox browser was used by 14% of computers online at the end of 2006, according to Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Net Applications. That was 46% higher than its 9.6% share of the browser market at the beginning of the year.

A couple of days ago, Andy informed me about Bumble Search, a Firefox extension built by him and Chris. Bumble Search is meant to add to your search experience and it introduces the concept of Cross Pollination, analyzing pages for keywords and finding related or similar pages.

This was the second Firefox extension for Google Search that I was hearing in the day, the first one being Advanced Dork that lets users quickly search for specific information using Google's Advanced Operators. Curious with what Bumble Search was about, I installed it to give it a shot and was mostly impressed with what it had to offer.