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Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability

Posted by timothy on from the cautious-cautious dept.

Shortly after the release of the newest major version of Firefox, an anonymous reader writes with word that "Mozilla has removed Firefox 16 from its installer page due to security vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could allow 'a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited' ... one temporary work-around, until a fix is released, is to downgrade to 15.0.1"

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  1. Re:Firefox *16*!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please, enough with those old jokes. Firefox is buggy and slow enough to create new ones.

  2. Not so smart by SirDice · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why the hell did they pull it? Firefox 16.0 fixes 24 bugs, of which 21 are considered important. They're advising people to downgrade to THAT version because of ONE minor privacy issue. Seriously? Why don't they urge people to upgrade to 16.0 and start pushing out 16.0.1 as fast as they can?

  3. Re:Firefox *16*!? by mcgrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, either you've been offline for longer than usual, or are trolling mozilla.

    If he were trolling Mozilla he would have said "here's the patch!" and linked the IE download page. Um, did the IE vuln get fixed yet? Opera is looking better and better!

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