Firefox Updated to 1.0.4 454
Exstatica writes "Firefox has been updated to 1.0.4 and they have fixed a few critical security holes, all javascript vulnerabilities. The Mozilla Foundation announced these vulnerabilities May 7th. 'There are currently no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities although a proof of concept has been reported." You don't have to upgrade, but it's recommended.'" We've reported on these vulnerabilities previously.
Update process... (Score:5, Interesting)
Quick and serious on security (Score:5, Interesting)
Already upgraded (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Already upgraded (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Already upgraded (Score:3, Interesting)
It has reportedly sometimes the bad effect that the red update arrow stays red forever.
Impressive (Score:5, Interesting)
exe crashes explorer when viewed accross SMB share (Score:2, Interesting)
I wildly guess it's a race condition or something arising from reading the embedded icon resourse as that doesn't show? No I don't really have a clue what causes it.
All machines are fully patched W2K, thank buddha for memory sticks!
c'mon! Let's break some FF extensions! (Score:3, Interesting)
Extension authors can't keep up.
Mozilla Update is slow to update itself.
and Users like me are left looking to google for help.
Silly me thought Mozilla Update there to centralized things.
Re:Many Eyes ? (Score:2, Interesting)
This sounds suspiciously like flamebait.
Re:Great (Score:1, Interesting)
Good, but I wish there was remote updating (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Update process... (Score:3, Interesting)
Middle click new tab on Mac (Score:3, Interesting)
Amazingly fast response (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:One of the reasons i use Firefox. (Score:5, Interesting)
I switched to Firefox because I was sick of using IE. Ever since I've switched, AdAware has found ZERO spyware/malware incidents!
To IE's meager defense, I'm sure there might have been a setting somewhere that might have tightened up the holes, but switching to Firefox has been easier. Plus, I'm addicted to the tabbed browing.
Re:Update process... (Score:5, Interesting)
I find it very strange that the people I have converted (mostly not too tech-savvy) to using Firefox, still have to make re-installs themselves.
Firefox speed..... (Score:3, Interesting)
The more I use it, the longer this actions takes. It doesn't matter if I clear cache and cookies, un-install plugins, or just plain uninstall and reinstall the browser.
Is it simply the newer versions that cause it to load so slowly? My roommate has the same problem. Is anyone else experiencing this and is there an answer?
Responses greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Re:IE still #1 a-ok (Score:1, Interesting)
That's what I thought, too, until about a year ago.
I caught a trojan on my "good" box - the one I use for online banking. Firewalled behind a hardware NAT router with SPI and with the XP firewall added in for good measure. No pr0n- or warez-sites visits. No e-Mail. All patched up according to Windows Update. I'm the only one who had access to that system. No warezed stuff installed. Antivirus and SSD active and updated.
That was scary.
I stopped using IE right there and then.
Re:Yes, but ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Point taken, but let's bear in mind that this POC can't evolve into a worm. It can't even evolve into an exploit now that the only site on the default whitelist no longer exists.
That's why they didn't put out a stop-gap fix release at the beginning of the week--the threat had passed completely.
Firefox developers got lucky this time--they could remove the threat with a simple server-side modification. With most vulnerabilities of this severity, that's not an option.
Re:IE still #1 a-ok (Score:4, Interesting)
Update conflicting with my firewall? (Score:2, Interesting)
Nightly build.... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Doing the .exe shuffle (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:IE still #1 a-ok (Score:3, Interesting)
Please do pay a visit to the CSS Zen Garden [csszengarden.com] and compare IE renderings to FF renderings.
the Special Effects Designs [mezzoblue.com] are the most interresting ones in terms of IE sucking badly, BTW...
Re:Yes, but ... (Score:1, Interesting)