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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on December 20, 2006, 20:11
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Firefox users have been urged to update their browser immediately after Mozilla, the organisation behind the popular browser, said it had fixed eight vulnerabilities in Firefox 2.0.
Mozilla said five of the eight vulnerabilities were 'critical', meaning an attacker could exploit the weaknesses to run malicious code on the compromised machine. Seven vulnerability updates have been issued for the previous version of Firefox, version 1.5, of which five are rated as critical. Mozilla also urged users of its Thunderbird email application to download several security updates.
The updated version was made available on Tuesday evening. It can be downloaded from Mozilla's website. Firefox users who have set their browser to receive automatic updates will be notified or sent the update, depending on their preferences.
The updates to Firefox 2.0 are the first since its release in late October. They cover flaws in memory corruption, and the way the browser executes RSS, Javascript and CSS code.
Version 1.5 has already seen a whole raft of updates, including the patching of other critical vulnerabilities in November.
According to Mozilla developers, the Firefox updates will work with Vista, which was released to businesses three weeks ago.
Security research organisation Secunia rated the Mozilla flaws as 'highly critical' and described the threats in detail on its site.
Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, confirmed that Mozilla plans to drop support for Firefox 1.5 on 24 April, 2007, not October 2007 as previously reported. "We are consistent with our approach, which is to support a version, in this case 1.5.0.x, for six months after the following version, in this case Firefox 2," Nitot said.
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:bawl: :slug:
At least Firefox has an auto update facility, so users should already be aware of these patches.
:xmas:
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nooo!! I really like 1.5.* I'm not a fan of 2.0
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What don't you like about 2.0?
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At least Firefox has an auto update facility, so users should already be aware of these patches.
Yep.
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What don't you like about 2.0?
not sure, it just didn't seem to work correctly, plain and simply I just didn't get on with it - maybe it deserves more time but I like how I have this version setup
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The updates to Firefox 2.0 are the first since its release in late October. They cover flaws in memory corruption, and the way the browser executes RSS, Javascript and CSS code.
Maybe it will work better after the application of the patches.
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not sure, it just didn't seem to work correctly, plain and simply I just didn't get on with it - maybe it deserves more time but I like how I have this version setup
Same here. I am thinking of uninstalling 2.0 and reverting to 1.5.
Firefox 1.5 hardly ever crashed, but version 2.0 seems to crash at least once a day. Another thing I don't like is that with version 1.5 I had a toolbar icon (a picture of an envelope) which allowed me to read/send mail in Thunderbird without having to open the full application. I can't remember if I added this myself or whether it came by default, but since upgrading to 2.0, the icon has gone and there is nothing in the menus to replace it.
>:(
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Same here. I am thinking of uninstalling 2.0 and reverting to 1.5.
Firefox 1.5 hardly ever crashed, but version 2.0 seems to crash at least once a day. Another thing I don't like is that with version 1.5 I had a toolbar icon (a picture of an envelope) which allowed me to read/send mail in Thunderbird without having to open the full application. I can't remember if I added this myself or whether it came by default, but since upgrading to 2.0, the icon has gone and there is nothing in the menus to replace it.
>:(
As I said above, give it a chance after the updates have been installed, and here's your mail icon, Dave. :santa:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3591/
What's slightly annoying is that this is only supposed to be a patch, well, patches, but it's rendered half my add-ons incompatible, so am now also awaiting updates for them too. ::)
Oh, and the Alt+S shortcut for posting on here doesn't work either, as it brings up the History menu for some reason. Think I'll go back to Mozilla SeaMonkey! :blush:
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Thanks for the icon, Simon. :D
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As I said above, give it a chance after the updates have been installed, and here's your mail icon, Dave. :santa:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3591/
What's slightly annoying is that this is only supposed to be a patch, well, patches, but it's rendered half my add-ons incompatible, so am now also awaiting updates for them too. ::)
Oh, and the Alt+S shortcut for posting on here doesn't work either, as it brings up the History menu for some reason. Think I'll go back to Mozilla SeaMonkey! :blush:
lol.... too many addons can kill you! :-)