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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: 0, Troll

    This is all very fucked. Should have just been creating a portable POSIX operating system with OpenGL stack -- I mean, that's what we'll have in the end. Fuck HTML5 -- I've been waiting for over a decade since v4.01 came out. I can build a native App for every platform and get pixel perfect results with far more flexibility and performance via cross platform toolchains. What's the web offer? A grab bag of Javascript Frameworks for Javascript loaded each time I click a link. Fuck that shit, I'm out.