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Firefox Updated to 1.0.4
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.
This guy at work noticed I was using firefox (he's an IE user), and said, slyly, "You know, there's a couple of really bad security holes." Good think FF fixes their holes faster than MS.
Next time I try to help a friend out I'm not suggesting firefox. I'm suggesting Netscape! Wwwait.
Damn. Can't upgrade to 1.0.4 since the English (British) version is not available yet :(
Can't be installing the American version ;)
"Why take life seriously, you're not coming out of it alive anyway."
Not being afraid doesn't mean something bad isn't going to happen!
You should disable scripting as well.
It is embarrassing to encourage people to use Firefox and then when a security problem is announced they just let it fester like an open sore. Microsoft would have had something like this fixed in a matter of months. Or better yet they wouldn't have told anyone about the problems at all so therefore nobody could have exploited them. So rock on, you cancerous communists!
It seems that the Mozilla Suite has lost a lot of it's sex appeal. Firefox gets all the attention and Mozilla is the fat friend you gotta be nice to.
...FireFox downloads double to 100 Million!
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
You know, you don't have to wait for Firefoux to come out, you can just use the regular old Firefox..
What exactly is different? I didn't see any obvious spelling differences on my American English version of Firefox. It's not like our version says "Open Location Beeyotch!" instead of "Open Location".
Aren't all clicks with a Mac middle-clicks?
Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
But, you know, the fat friend will still love you after the sexy one leaves you for another.
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We can only dream ;-)
They don't get advertisers by saying "you are safe". All they are interested in is headlines like "A new insideous threat could be killing all your children today! Tune in tonight to hear all about it."
"reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Steven Colbert
Sorry about that man...your sexy ex-girlfriend was great last night!
I don't care how much stuff it's downloading and executing
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Then why aren't you using IE?
It deleted my hard drive! I opened my computar case and it was gone! Very mysterious!
Boy, I cannot agree with you more. If you have half a clue, then IE is easy to make secure. I just went into Tools - Internet Options and set the Security policy to Restricted Sites, turned on popup blocking (after I obviously installed SP2), set my Privacy level to High (because everyone except an idiot knows this is how to disable Cookies), and then installed all the hot fixes from MS. If you are too lazy to maintain your software properly then you shouldn't even have a computer. Just get a Mac or something.
It's like all those people who complain about safety problems in cars. My Pinto is safer than almost every car out there. All that with almost zero risk of theft. I strapped some padding onto the rear bumper and put some steel reinforcement plating around the gas tank. There is almost no risk to myself or my passengers of a ruptured fuel tank, all because I took the time to fix an inherent problem in the design of the ... wait .... err ... I gotta go.
probably because I have been such a fan of Mozilla
Wow, aNot very strange, is it?
I know, thats why I'm stuck with Wndows 3.1... no auto upgrade exists for me so I'm totally screwed.
Not very strange, is it?
Are you serious?!
It looks like she has flames shooting out her ass and hair growing in all the wrong places.
And the toenails are more than a little creepy.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
This must be the most ridiculous thing I've read all week. It reads like a zealot's advertisment. "Not only is Firefox AWESOME, but it helps you with your sex life!"
Isn't the British version named Foyerfox?
I went into the options screen, and I had lost the settings for my "Fonts and Colours".
All that was left was "Fonts & Colors" (whatever they are).
In reality, I never once noticed I had the english version until I just went and checked.
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