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Thumb twiddling Mozilla promises fix for privacy-biting bug

Anonymous Coward

Mac or Windows or both? 

Unhappy

Does the security flaw live in Mac, Windows or both?

Anonymous Coward

ps: looks like it applies to Mac? 

Unhappy

One may wish to Tools > Add-ons > NoScript > Preferences > edit preferences as it seems quite filled already?

Dan Goodin

@Mac or Windows or both? 

(Written by Reg staff)

Anonymous Coward,

Good question. According to Mozilla, Linux, Mac and Windows versions of Firefox are vulnerable. We've updated our story to reflect this.

Steve Renouf

So much for the IE bashers 

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Oh, so Firefox isn't immune to flaws afterall........!!

Anonymous Coward

Rapid response 

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.

Ash

NoScript blocks this 

It has done for the past two or three revisions.

Anonymous Coward

IE is worse 

Gates Horns

@Anonymous Coward

As I recall, IE is even worse with this kind of hard-to-fix security issue. (We're talking years here.)

Anonymous Coward

firefox still better than IE 

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> 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.