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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. Available? by fyrie · · Score: 5, Informative

    As in pushed out to you without asking you first. That was quite the surprise.

    1. Re:Available? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Informative

      You can turn off auto updating in your prefs if you want.

      Preferences > Advanced > Update tab.

      Yeah, that kind of annoyed me the first time, but in retrospect it is good for the general public to have automatic be on by default.

  2. Re:So much for security... by Kesch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Security holes were found. Security holes were fixed. I don't see a lack of attention to security.

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  3. Re:So much for security... by Omestes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually people complain about MS finding and then NOT fixing security holes. Look at the update record of their browser, compaired to FF, Firefox has about a week to a month fix rate, MS has about 1 year to never fix rate. People also complain that IE is UNFIXABLE due to its dependance on Active-X, which basically gives malware a pass to the kernel.

    Firefox finds bug, fixes bug, no news here.

    I really have no qualms about Firefox fixing a bug, it shows that their on it. Nobody claims that OSS is bug free, or security risk free, since this is impossible, from closed or open software. Code is a complex beast, like the hydra, you chop off one bug/security hole, and you probably open up more. That is intrinsic in coding, and design. The difference is the flexability of OSS, where bugs are easily seen, and easily remedied.

    When the market share hits critical mass, things should get fun, though. But the openess of OSS still will keep it from reaching IE proportions. And shame on those who think that Firefox = security, the internet is still a bad place, no matter what you run. Good software is no substitute for intelligence, ever.

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