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Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1, Firefox 1.5.0.5 Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yay-for-mythical-creatures dept.

nuyorker and hdm wrote to mention the new releases for Thunderbird and Firefox. hdm writes "This release of Firefox fixes 12 security holes, many of which can be used to execute malicious code. The Browser Fun project has provided an online demonstration of one of these flaws. This demonstration is capable of executing code on Windows, Linux, and both architectures of the Mac OS X platform; you're going to want to upgrade today!"

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  1. You know it's true. by systemic+chaos · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ugh. Security holes? Malicious code? I knew there was a reason I switched to Firefox. This just proves IE is worthless.


    Oh wait, this is about firefox?


    Ummm... Hooray! Firefox is even more secure now!

  2. Re:So much for security... by megaditto · · Score: 0, Troll

    Doesn't work in Opera :-(
    iexplore's BSOD large image hack does not work either
    I guess FireFox is more MS-compatible

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  3. Re:So much for security... by Data+Link+Layer · · Score: 0, Troll

    They are concerned. 12 Security flaws were just fixed with this release, if you look at the previous change logs they have been constantly fixing security problems. Really, it would be close to impossible to make a browser fully secure from every type of vulnerability, especially free ones.