posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Aug 2007 15:46 UTC, submitted by Miche
"At the Blackhat conference, Window Snyder and Mike Shaver of Mozilla released new tools for testing their browser - Firefox - and other popular browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Opera. The tools include a protocol fuzzer by Michael Eddington and a Javascript fuzzer by Jesse Ruderman. Fuzzing is a method by which researchers randomly simulate common conditions under which most browsers fail.