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Firefox upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability
- pyrotechnick 14y agoWelcome to the Age of Aquarius.
- sergiotapia 14y agoOh fuck, I need to follow instructions to downgrade? FFS. Nah, I don't care enough to downgrade.
- v21 14y agoPoor Firefox. They do the right thing, and end up with a #1 Most Read on BBC News telling people that "Security fear sees Firefox pulled"
- drcube 14y ago"The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters" "Firefox 16 itself fixed 14 vulnerabilities in version 15, including 11 that could allow attackers to install software without any user interaction beyond normal browsing." Sounds like 16 is still less dangerous than the older version. Why are they telling people to downgrade? http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-old-firefox-16-from-download-site-over-security-risk/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-ol... http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo...
- khuey 14y agoBecause those 14 vulnerabilities are (presumably) not public, while the 1 vulnerability in 16 is.
- mikeratcliffe 14y agoUsers had to manually upgrade to be using version 16 anyhow ... it was not yet set up for automatic updates. A huge amount of news over nothing.
- epo 14y ago20:24 UK time, Firefox updated to 16.0.1