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Unpatched Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the caught-with-you-pants-down dept.

ThatGuyGreg writes "C|Net is reporting that an unpatched exploit in Firefox 1.5 has been made public, making it very easy for ne'er-do-well-sites to cause your browser to crash on startup with a single visit. Until a patch is released, it is recommended that you disable your history.dat file."

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  1. Re:Stop the stupidity by NineNine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, we use Active X for quite a few of our internal apps. There's no better replacement for it, and I've seen a lot of workarounds. For example: a DBGrid. I can slap a DBGrid into a web page in seconds with an Active X control, or I can try some buggy Javascipt kludge that works in just a few browsers, and doesn't have 50% of the functionality that a real COM object does. So, we're already using 2 browsers right now. We tried Firefox assuming that it was going to be better for more generic browsing, but with all of the secuity exploits, bugs, and the automatic updates STILL not working, it may be time to go back to IE for the sake of productivity and simplicity.