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Germany Warns Against Using Firefox

Posted by timothy on from the fuer-ihre-sicherheit dept.

jayme0227 writes "Due to the recent exploit in Firefox, Germany has warned against its use. This comes a couple months after Germany advised against using IE. Perhaps we should start taking odds as to which browser will be next." Note: the warning (from the Federal Office for Information Security) is provisional, and should be rendered moot by the release later this month of 3.6.2.

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  1. 3.6.2 released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup

    1. Re:3.6.2 released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      http://www.asciipr0n.com/

  2. To add some information to the void.. by Seth+Kriticos · · Score: 4, Informative

    The vulnerability *only* affects the current 3.6 branch. Patch is complete and will be pushed on the 30th of March.

    Here is the Mozilla blog entry on the topic:
    http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/18/update-on-secunia-advisory-sa38608

    Here is the original bug report:
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38608

    Ps: can we please get security related articles with some content instead of *OMG, we are all going to die!!* ??

  3. Re:Google Chrome. by muckracer · · Score: 3, Informative

    > That's true, as long as you turn off Google as the default search, disable cookies

    And don't forget about LSO cookies (Flash directory), that do NOT get deleted by FF's cookie deletion on exit. Extra add-on is needed (BetterPrivacy) to do so.

    Oh...and MozDevs...please restore the 'Clear History on Exit' window on browser exit. Thanx!

  4. Re:governments warn us about exploits by Rockoon · · Score: 3, Informative

    ..and if you have actually used it on Windows, you know that its really bad.

    Unresponsive, with a non-conforming UI, and the installer carries a payload of other apple software.

    --
    "His name was James Damore."