Since the launch of the RockMelt social browser, it has become known as the unofficial Facebook browser, according to ePathChina. Facebook chat, share and status updates are built in the browser. And now Facebook officially become a partner of RockMelt, the preliminary results of their cooperation can be seen in the RockMelt 3 launched yesterday.   RockMelt is still a stand-alone browser, and has only hundreds of thousands of active users. Facebook give no investment to it, no intention to help it promote and distribute the browser, at least initially. But Facebook’s product team is working closely with RockMelt to ensure that the browser features are easy to use. Informed sources quoted RockMelt CEO Eric as s ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

“The rogue extensions are advertised on Facebook by scammers and claim to allow changing the color of profile pages, tracking profile visitors or even removing social media viruses, said Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini in a blog post on Friday,” writes CIO’s Lucian Constantin. “Once installed in the browser, these extensions give attackers complete control over the victim’s Facebook account and can be used to spam their friends or to Like pages without authorization,” Constantin writes. “In one case, a rogue extension masqueraded as Adobe Flash Player and was hosted on the official Chrome Web Store, Assolini said. By the time it was identified, it had already been installed b ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

Mozilla warns of unknown root certificate authority in Firefox | Zero Day | ZDNet.com. “In a startling revelation, the open-source Mozilla project says that its flagship Firefox browser contains a root certificate authority that doesn’t seem to have a known owner….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....