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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. more like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Firefox more like FIREFAIL amirite guys?

  2. Open$ource by hwangeruk · · Score: -1, Troll

    I find this hard to believe, an exploit? How did that escape with all those millions of open source coders and users pouring over the codebase?

  3. Re:Posting from an "Exploited" FF 1.5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course, if the same thing would happen in IE (not likely, since it is not as crapped-up as FF), every Mozilla-zealot would cry wolf about how badly "M$" (as the morons like to call it) screws the Windows-lusers.

  4. Easy solution by GeorgeMcBay · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is an easy solution to this problem, switch to Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer doesn't have this bug and it isn't cluttered by lots of useless feature bloat like tabbed browsing or silly plugins.