Firefox Moving On From SSL 2.0

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Plans are afoot to remove support for SSL version 2.0 in Mozilla Firefox, reports MozillaZine portal. Mozilla Foundation is eager to disable support for SSL 2.0 and have all Firefox installations use only the newer and more secure SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 protocols." From the post: "Netscape Communications Corporation introduced SSL 2.0 with the launch of Netscape Navigator 1.0 in 1994. Netscape Navigator 2.0 included support for SSL 3.0 when it was released in 1996. The specification for TLS 1.0, essentially a standardized version of SSL 3.0 with some differences, was published in 1999."

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That's nice and all

[JediTrainer]

And I love Firefox. I do. And I try to get everyone I know using it.

But would it kill the developers to fix one really annoying, yet increasingly serious bug?

I'm speaking of large file download support. I ran across this when trying to download the Knoppix 4 DVD, which is 3GB, to a filesystem that supports files up to 4GB. Basically it starts downloading fine, but after the first two GB the progress bar goes wonky (reading negative file size downloaded) and the file on disk gets corrupted. I guess it's a signed int problem or somesuch.

I checked with Bugzilla (no link from /. allowed) and indeed, this sucker is confirmed and has been known for over a year.

Yeah, yeah, I know BT is better except I was downloading at work where the firewall won't let me use that. But it was shameful that I ended up having to use IE to download that .iso file.