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#1 2005-09-23 02:49:19
- slackhack
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firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
i searched the forum, but i didn't see anything about this, apologies if it's already been posted:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/securi … 637,00.htm
it looks potentially pretty damaging, but i couldn't tell from the article if it was only in 1.0.6, or if it's also in some or all versions below that. i use mozilla mostly, but i just checked my firefox and it's 1.0.4, so perhaps arch is not vulnerable. but maybe arch ff should be upgraded to 1.0.7 at the first opportunity to be on the safe side? and of course if you run other distros and have 1.0.6, it would be a good idea to upgrade.
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#2 2005-09-23 03:05:43
- Gullible Jones
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
I already posted this, though I mistakenly thought it had been fixed in 1.0.6.
At any rate, you'd be right to say that the Firefox version in Current should be updated *ASAP*.
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#3 2005-09-23 04:00:17
- slackhack
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
oops sorry. i searched for firefox and glanced over the security announcements forum and didnt' see anything. thanks for the link.
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#4 2005-09-23 06:19:15
- T-Dawg
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
I sure hope 1.0.7 is good, because what I've got now isn't worth a damn...
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#5 2005-09-23 18:38:38
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
I sure hope 1.0.7 is good, because what I've got now isn't worth a damn...
+1
firefox sucks ... but as they phase out mozilla, what's the alternative? opera? ugh.
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#6 2005-09-23 19:08:27
- Gullible Jones
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
Uhh... Sea Monkey?
(I don't have a problem with Firefox... I do, however, have a problem with it being the sole provider of Gecko. I also have a problem with the current version of Gecko, which is a bit pokey compared to, say, KHTML... But version 1.5 is supposed to be a lot faster.)
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#7 2005-09-24 01:22:20
- T-Dawg
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
Penguin wrote:I sure hope 1.0.7 is good, because what I've got now isn't worth a damn...
+1
firefox sucks ... but as they phase out mozilla, what's the alternative? opera? ugh.
actually I've trying out galeon and so far I'm liking it alot. Everything that didn't work in firefox is working and its nice layout, everything is logical.
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#8 2005-09-24 18:47:07
- Gullible Jones
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
Yep, Galeon is cool. The only problem is that it depends on Firefox, but Firefox isn't that big, and that problem will be solved soon enough anyway. 8)
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#9 2005-09-24 19:01:36
- T-Dawg
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Re: firefox: critical security flaw in 1.0.6
Yep, Galeon is cool. The only problem is that it depends on Firefox, but Firefox isn't that big, and that problem will be solved soon enough anyway. 8)
how do you mean?
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