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March 3, 2005
FireFox bugs found
I've been so amused since the news about these bugs broke. Every pro-Micro$oft nut job has been screaming about it from the mountain tops trying to dent FireFox's expansion in the marketplace. I don't know how much Micro$oft paid for this QA work, but it would be nice if they spent a little of that money trying to improve their own product. My only concern has been since the Open Source community poured themselves into getting ahead of these issues, they got held up a little bit by the fact that they didn't get the new version 1.0.1 into the automatic update system ahead of it's release. So if you tried the auto update it didn't work. They are well aware of the problem and working on it as we speak. If you have the bandwidth and free time, you can download the entire program again and install it again. Which also led to another interesting side effect. It doesn't give you an option to upgrade, it just does another install, but maintains all your settings when it writes over your existing install. Which is good for the user, but they maybe should have given an upgrade option and did the same thing so that people wouldn't worry about it. They are also going to be putting out updates to their Thunderbird mail program which has some of the same bugs.
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Posted by ManDrake at March 3, 2005 9:19 AM
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I made this blog post yesterday, but Dianne never posted it. So now it's a bit dated, I tested the automatic update this morning for Firefox and it works fine. So everyone should download the fixes to protect yourself from attack.
Posted by: ManDrake at March 3, 2005 9:26 AM