In the OCBC bank scam, threat actors stole a combined SG$13.7 million ($10.2M) from 790 customers by spoofing text messages in what minister of finance Lawrence Wong referred to as "by far the most serious phishing scam seen" in Singapore. The standout example is the attack on Southeast Asia's second-largest bank, the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). The topic earned ministerial attention after instances of attacks and scams soared recently.
Singapore will step up up efforts to stamp out phishing and spoofing, ministers told the island nation's parliament on Tuesday. Maybe a firm stand on privacy and web standards would help. Rescorla promises thoughts on Google's controversial FLoC are "coming soon." These issues are important since it will likely take more than a user-interface refresh, pleasing though it is, to recover market share for Firefox. Mozilla CTO Eric Rescorla posted a few days ago on the matter of "the future of ads and privacy" but with few conclusions similarly a Mozilla post the same day on "a more privacy preserving ads-based ecosystem," states that "the advertising ecosystem is fundamentally broken" but only introduces the topic.
In 2019, a financial report showed that royalties, paid for setting Firefox's default search engine and understood to be largely from Google, make up the bulk of Moz's regular revenue. Mozilla is pitched as a privacy-preserving browser though not to the same extent as Brave it has a ton of strong features for blocking trackers yet it is compromised by the importance of Google to its business model. Perhaps more interesting is the matter of privacy and business model. In both respects, Firefox is good enough though the performance gap looks significant. Regarding performance, Edge 91 and Chrome 91 both scored 116 on JetStream2 whereas Firefox 89 could only manage 74 on our particular PC.
Regarding standards compliance, Firefox 89 scored 513 on HTML5 Test versus 528 for both the latest Edge and Chrome on our Windows 10 box. The vid below summarizes the design refresh on desktop and mobile: Mozilla has posted not one, not two, but four articles and videos on the new look Firefox, as well as the release notes for developers. In this overall context it is no surprise that Mozilla hopes has embarked on a redesign, which is now available in Firefox 89. The decline is a concern, then, not only for Mozilla but also for standards advocates.
By April 2010, IE was down to 48.6 per cent, Firefox up to 32.7 per cent, and Google's newer Chrome was starting to make an impact, at 8.3 per cent. In April 2008, Microsoft enjoyed a 63 per cent market share with Internet Explorer, and with Firefox performing strongly behind it at 29.3 per cent. The existence of multiple independent implementations is important for web standards, helping to prevent a single vendor from pushing through changes without consensus, and ensuring that the standards are coherent.Ī glance at a statistics site like W3Counter is telling. By contrast, most other browsers, including Chrome and Chromium, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi use the Google-sponsored Blink engine, while Apple's Safari uses WebKit (from which Blink was forked). Mozilla has released Firefox 89, proclaiming it a "fresh new Firefox," though it comes amid a relentless decline in market share.įirefox matters more than most web browsers, because it uses its own browser engine, called Quantum, and its own JavaScript engine, called SpiderMonkey.