Critical flaws found in Firefox
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4532127.stm
Funny that if Firefox has critical flaws it ends up as front page news!
Funny that if Firefox has critical flaws it ends up as front page news!
The more a program become popular, the more flaws will be found.
Why are so many flaws in Windows found? Because it's used by millions of "test monkeys"!
Plus it also comes back to stupid tw@*ish hackers being jealous of somebodys success. Good on Microsoft for being the most successful!
Why are so many flaws in Windows found? Because it's used by millions of "test monkeys"!
Plus it also comes back to stupid tw@*ish hackers being jealous of somebodys success. Good on Microsoft for being the most successful!
Frik said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4532127.stm
Funny that if Firefox has critical flaws it ends up as front page news!
Very true. agent006 said:
Good. Nice to see an overly smug company trip up.
First, they're not a company in the common sense of the word.
Second, I think saying 'good' when producers of superb, IE-bashing free software get a punch from the media is slightly misguided.
Third, it isn't really the Mozilla foundation that has been smug about Firefox, more some of the wider OSS community.
Fourth, nerrr!
It's a good thing that the 'security perfection' myth of OSS has been debunked, but I don't think for a moment that IE is more secure than Firefox. IE is certainly vastly inferior in terms of features and I say that as a Director of a company offering many MS solutions.
Overly smug? What a crock!
Even if Firefox had as many vulnerabilities as internet explorer, it would still be a better product, so frankly the fact that a couple of issues have been found hardly warrants press attention.
I had yet another windows update this morning for a security vulnerability that could "allow external users to execute code". Where is that on the BBC site?
Even if Firefox had as many vulnerabilities as internet explorer, it would still be a better product, so frankly the fact that a couple of issues have been found hardly warrants press attention.
I had yet another windows update this morning for a security vulnerability that could "allow external users to execute code". Where is that on the BBC site?
agent006 said:
Good. Nice to see an overly smug company trip up.
Debugged and fixed in 5 hours. Additional testing going on in this area.
Woraround distributed to the public within an hour of knowing about the issue.
FF 1.0.4 available soon with a full fix.
What's the turnaround on a Microsoft flaw?
Fixed version 1.04 now available at www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Makes MS's response time to flaws look a tad sluggish....
Makes MS's response time to flaws look a tad sluggish....
Leithen said:
Fixed version 1.04 now available at www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Makes MS's response time to flaws look a tad sluggish....
Just upgraded.
Have they fixed the memory leak with extended usage yet?
hmm - mine has a problem installing it? Says that Firefox is "read only" - anyone else got problems???Mr E said:
Have they fixed the memory leak with extended usage yet?
I think they have staunched the leak, but not healed it for want of a better expression - for example I currently got several windows and several tabs open and I get up to 75,000K mem usage, which can be immediately knocked down to 27,000K if you minimise and then restore the windows.
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