Thumb twiddling Mozilla promises fix for privacy-biting bug
Mozilla's head of security has promised a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that's been lurking in the popular Firefox browser for more than eight months. The new urgency in fixing the jar: protocol handler comes after bloggers in recent weeks demonstrated how the vulnerability could wreak real-world havoc, including allowing …
Does the security flaw live in Mac, Windows or both?
One may wish to Tools > Add-ons > NoScript > Preferences > edit preferences as it seems quite filled already?
Anonymous Coward,
Good question. According to Mozilla, Linux, Mac and Windows versions of Firefox are vulnerable. We've updated our story to reflect this.
Oh, so Firefox isn't immune to flaws afterall........!!
So much for the much-vaunted security advantages that Firefox is supposed to possess over IE! Eight months makes M$'s monthly update schedule seem prompt. Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox in preference to IE, but I'm sick of hearing the fanbois claim that Firefox is so much more secure.
It has done for the past two or three revisions.
@Anonymous Coward
As I recall, IE is even worse with this kind of hard-to-fix security issue. (We're talking years here.)
> I'm sick of hearing the fanbois claim that Firefox is so much more secure.
Well, I am not fanboy (I don't use Firefox) but, just because Firefox has bugs, it doesn't make it less secure than IE.
Firefox is much more secure than IE, even with this bug.
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