Posted Monday 19th November 2007 22:15 GMT
Does the security flaw live in Mac, Windows or both?
Posted Monday 19th November 2007 22:15 GMT
One may wish to Tools > Add-ons > NoScript > Preferences > edit preferences as it seems quite filled already?
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 00:51 GMT
Anonymous Coward,
Good question. According to Mozilla, Linux, Mac and Windows versions of Firefox are vulnerable. We've updated our story to reflect this.
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 10:31 GMT
Oh, so Firefox isn't immune to flaws afterall........!!
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 10:31 GMT
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.
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 10:34 GMT
It has done for the past two or three revisions.
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:42 GMT
@Anonymous Coward
As I recall, IE is even worse with this kind of hard-to-fix security issue. (We're talking years here.)
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 20:38 GMT
> 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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