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Old 10 May 2005, 04:36 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm

They're working on it, but recommend that users turn off javascript support until they've got it fixed !!!

As I predicted a while ago. Now more users are using firefox, it's gradually being revealed as having many security holes
Old 10 May 2005, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Iain Young
As I predicted a while ago. Now more users are using firefox, it's gradually being revealed as having many security holes
Granted, but being open source we can (at least) look forward to a fix relatively quickly.

Had this been IE we'd have known nothing of it until it was too late and even then, we'd be lucky to get a fix within a month...

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Old 10 May 2005, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Iain Young
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm

They're working on it, but recommend that users turn off javascript support until they've got it fixed !!!

As I predicted a while ago. Now more users are using firefox, it's gradually being revealed as having many security holes

Hmmm I wouldnt say 2 was 'many' and the report said that no exploits had been reported. Im not out to bash M$ they do some *good* software but I wouldnt include IE in the list, but you are right as more users jump on the FF bandwagon more exploits will be found and more importantly hackers trying to find em!

Gary
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