Mozilla has warned that Firefox should ensure they are using the latest version of the browser, due to the fact that security flaws in Mozilla software could make the Firefox browser vulnerable to malicious attacks.
According to Secunia, an Internet security firm, there are some 21 security flaws in various versions of the Firefox browser. Also, the Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned that Thunderbird and Seamonkey are also at risk.
Thunderbird is Mozilla’s email client, whilst Seamonkey is the organisation’s Internet application.
They still are. All programs are bound to have security flaws. The differenct with Firefox is that they address the issue immediately and release a new version with the fix within a very reasonable amount of time between point of discovery of the flaw and point of patch release.
Firefox is a cavalcade of doesn't work and I have never been impressed with their responses to security issues. "They address the issue immediately" is open source slang for "they turn the feature off completely" or "they drink a lot of Jolt Cola and hardwire a variable in a stupid way at 4 in the morning so they can be impressed with themselves as quickly as possible."
Will be fixed with in days, unlike IE that will have to wait to the next months update. I still like firefox better then IE and so what about the flaws, how many did IE have???? They have out number firefox in the past years. How many times have you gone to a friends house and found their IE full of spyware tool bars or popup. IE 7 is almost a copy of FireFox.
I made the switch to Firefox a long time ago and am that much better for it. It has so much more functionality than IE. I've never noticed any security problems, and with Adblock, I have no troubles at all. If I have any gripes at all it would be with PDF documents. Maybe it's just my dial-up connection, but Firefox has a heart attack when I try and open one.
Firefox sadly. :[ I used to use Opera but their constant rearranging of the GUI led to a bunch of dumb problems in the last version I tried.
That said, Firefox is still funny. I don't know why people leap into recommending it as if it is an answer to anything. It is sort of tolerable, that's all.
Oh, and ChaoticVengeance? I don't know if you're expecting a security problem to pop up a window saying HELLO I AM EXPLOITABLE or what but unless you are looking for one you are probably not going to find one. Also most things aiming to exploit security vulnerabilities will bend over backwards in an effort to go unnoticed. Just a heads up.
You may have friends that know what they are doing, so I will give you that. I work part time at a computer repair shop, so what I should have said, how many times I work on a computer that is running slow and it is full of spyware tool bars on the IE and popups.. :)
Yes, I would know if something crept onto my system. I run regular diagnostics and scans for malware and such. I make it a point to run a clean a system as possible.
Avant is mostly an IE shell, so if you're worried about the security of IE or whatever then it's probably not for you.
@ChaoticVengeance
That's good. It doesn't really amount to noticing security issues with the browser though. It could be that you've just managed to avoid potential problems up to now. Assuming that there isn't a complicated rootkit type thing already lodged in there telling your virus scanner that everything is fine, anyway. :P
takes the flip4mac project off of whoever has it now and figures out a way to incorporate it into firefox, so intel mac people like me can have a balanced internet browser and not have to compromise....
i dunno, but to me, if you're in charge of a service that caters to potentially a few hundred thousand mac consumers, you would think they would speed up the process of buying an intel mac to work on a universial version of flip4mac.
I would be careful about tooting the security horn of any browser. Opera has a much smaller percentage of the market than the others so it is obviously not targetted as much. There might be few ~known~ vulnerabilities but that's still more than zero, and it doesn't imply anything about the code itself. It's a good browser, though.
Has anyone here ever attempted to compile Firefox?
I compiled Firefox for an Alpha sporting Linux and let me tell you, Firefox is one of the nastiest hacks I've ever seen.
For starters, it would only compile with GCC-3.2.3 and an older version of binutils. Then to add to it, if you optimize any of the code, it would generate NOTHING but errors.
When you get 'everything' just right, thats including half a dozen patches and the like, you can sit back for a 20 minutes or so and wall the thousands of programming 'warnings' scroll by.
On linux, I use Konqueror or Galeon... I avoid Firefox/Thunderbird like the plague!
Just downloaded and compiled Firefox-1.5.0.2 using the late model build tools *hmmm* GCC-4.0.1 and Binutils-2.19.0.x... Now thats a nice little change. In the past I had to add in several patches, some of which were over two years old... Makes you wonder about those different 'version' numbers. Anyway, they finally entered the 21st century with their code... SWEET!
