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A Bad Month for Firefox

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the and-its-bugs dept.

marty writes "Februrary is not a good month for Mozilla developers. Infoworld reports about the efforts of Polish researcher Michael Zalewski, who apparently kept finding new vulnerabilities in the popular browser on a daily basis through the month, first postponing the 2.0.0.2 update, and then finding a remotely exploitable flaw in it immediately after its release."

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  1. They could have waited longer... by crossmr · · Score: 0, Troll

    I barely surfed 2 pages after updating to 2.02 and I'm already crashing again.

  2. Re:Bottom line by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1, Troll

    As is typical with Open Source, with Microsoft, it a terrible symptom of everything that's wrong with The Borg. But with Firefox, it's a "feature".

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