For a complete list of changes see the release notes:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/10.0/releasenotes/

If you do not receive an update notice when using the application, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu.

Download Firefox 10.0 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

Download Thunderbird 10.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

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Firefox and Thunderbird 10.0 released

The Facebook Blog

Last year we introduced timeline, a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and life events that help you tell your story. Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you’ll have 7 days to preview what’s there now. This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it.

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150408488962131
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/facebook-timeline_n_1228800.html

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Facebook Timeline rollout, Mandatory for All Users

Updating our privacy policies and terms of service
1/24/2012 01:30:00 PM
In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what’s changing, why and what these changes mean for users.

First, our privacy policies. Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more than 70 (yes, you read right … 70) privacy documents covering all of our different products. This approach is somewhat complicated. It’s also at odds with our efforts to integrate our different products more closely so that we can create a beautifully simple, intuitive user experience across Google.

So we’re rolling out a new main privacy policy that covers the majority of our products and explains what information we collect, and how we use it, in a much more readable way. While we’ve had to keep a handful of separate privacy notices for legal and other reasons, we’re consolidating more than 60 into our main Privacy Policy.

Regulators globally have been calling for shorter, simpler privacy policies—and having one policy covering many different products is now fairly standard across the web.

These changes will take effect on March 1, and we’re starting to notify users today, including via email and a notice on our homepage.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-terms.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/google-privacy-policies_n_1229470.html

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Google announces privacy changes, users can’t opt out

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is putting the PROTECT IP Act on hold. “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT IP Act,” he said in a tweet.

“There’s no reason that legitimate issues raised about PROTECT IP can’t be resolved,” he said. “Counterfeiting & piracy cost 1000s of jobs yearly.”

“Americans rightfully expect to be fairly compensated 4 their work. I’m optimistic that we can reach compromise on PROTECT IP in coming weeks,” he concluded.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/reid-shelves-protect-ip-act-in-response-to-recent-events.ars

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Reid shelves PROTECT IP Act

H Security

The Koobface network is apparently down, according to Facebook. Ryan McGeehan, Facebook security official, told Reuters that the company’s decision to expose the five men alleged to be behind the malware had had an effect within 24 hours: “The thing that we are most excited about is that the botnet is down.” Yesterday, Facebook decided to publish the names of alleged gang members based on details of research carried out in 2009-2010 by two German researchers. One of the researchers works for Security company Sophos, which pre-empted Facebook’s announcement by publishing the report.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Koobface-C-C-goes-silent-after-alleged-controllers-exposed-1416869.html

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Koobface command and control servers silent

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the reliable giants of K Street — the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association of America and, of course, the motion picture lobby, with its new chairman, former Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat and an insider’s insider.

Yet on Wednesday this formidable old guard was forced to make way for the new as Web powerhouses backed by Internet activists rallied opposition to the legislation through Internet blackouts and cascading criticism, sending an unmistakable message to lawmakers grappling with new media issues: Don’t mess with the Internet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-key-senators-change-course.html?_r=1&comments#permid=610

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Don’t mess with the Internet

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

http://mashable.com/2012/01/18/pipa-sopa-abandon-bill/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/sopa-pipa-bills_n_1214405.html
http://www.businessreviewusa.com/technology/pipa-and-sopa-co-sponsors-use-facebook-to-abandon-bills

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SOPA and PIPA Bills: Lawmakers Shift Stance

Google

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/18/sopa-blackout-day-of-action-live?newsfeed=true

Mark Zuckerberg
The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world. We can’t let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the internet’s development. Facebook opposes SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet.

The world today needs political leaders who are pro-internet. We have been working with many of these folks for months on better alternatives to these current proposals. I encourage you to learn more about these issues and tell your congressmen that you want them to be pro-internet.

You can read more about our views here: https://www.facebook.com/FacebookDC?sk=app_329139750453932.

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100210345757211

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Wikipedia: Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge

Mozilla Wiki

We’re still tracking issues for a possible 9.0.2
You can see them @ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_9/RRRT
Note we are doing a staggered / slow rollout
We were manual-update only initially. This is why < 3 million people got 9.0 instead of 9.0.1
We unthrottled automatic updates for the past week (only offering to 10% of Fx checking for updates)
Now that we are at ~15 million 9.0.1 users we have turned off automatic updates again for a bit to look at data
If you see any news articles about slow Firefox 9 uptake, please email press or release-drivers so we can let the author know what is really going on
Probably going to do something similar for releases in the future as well, more details will be sent to release-drivers
We aren't in the Amazon Appstore anymore, and we missed the holiday season for the Kindle Fire (boo). Details are in bug 713777

Next source migration is 2012-01-31

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2012-01-03
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223483/Mozilla_slows_pace_of_Firefox_9_upgrades

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Mozilla Firefox 9 staggered rollout

H Security

The five men behind the Koobface worm, which spreads over Facebook and other social networks, hide in plain sight, living comfortably in St Petersberg, Russia, according to Facebook investigators and other security researchers.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Koobface-gang-to-be-exposed-by-Facebook-1414813.html

IDG News Service -
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223484/Facebook_researchers_turn_up_heat_on_Koobface_gang

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Koobface malware gang exposed