ninjageek Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Five hours after Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.0, researchers found a vulnerability in the new browser. Tipping Point has verified the bug and reported it to Mozilla, Tipping Point said on Wednesday. Since Mozilla is still working on a fix, the researchers won't share details about the problem. Tipping Point ranked the severity of the vulnerability as high, but said that users would have to click on a link in an e-mail or visit a malicious Web page before being affected. The issue affects users of Firefox 3.0 as well as Firefox 2.0 . Once the problem is fixed, Tipping Point will publish an advisory on its Web site, it said. Tipping Point found out about the vulnerability through its Zero Day Initiative, which lets researchers earn cash by submitting new vulnerabilities to the company. Once Tipping Point validates the issue, it pays the researcher for the information and notifies the relevant software vendor of the technical details. Mozilla did not respond to a request for comment. Mozilla launched its newest browser on Tuesday along with a marketing stunt that went a bit wrong. The company announced that it wanted to set a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. However, the volume of downloads crippled Mozilla's site, and so customers in the U.S. couldn't begin downloading the software until two hours later than expected. Still, Mozilla said it logged more than 8 million downloads within 24 hours. There is currently no record for number of software downloads in a day, but Mozilla must now wait for review of the stunt by Guinness officials. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080619/tc_pcworld/147277 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Well....Then maybe I should start using IE, for the time being? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlucardHS Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Even with that vulnerability FF is still safer then I.E. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Each to their own really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 As if this is weird, or anything out of the ordinary. Vulnerabilities are found all the time, and it's very likely for one to to be known by hackers, but not by Mozilla themselves, so it's not fixed as fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philp Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Five hours after Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.0, researchers found a vulnerability in the new browser. Since Mozilla is still working on a fix, the researchers won't share details about the problem. Tipping Point ranked the severity of the vulnerability as high, but said that users would have to click on a link in an e-mail or visit a malicious Web page before being affected. The issue affects users of Firefox 3.0 as well as Firefox 2.0 . Well at least no one that uses Firefox will ever click a link in an e-mail or ever visit a "malicious" website. So you're still safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philp Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 I told my friends a several years ago, before FF was very popular, that the reason it's safe is because it's not fun to hack a system that only a relative handful of people use. Now that more people use it, and feel smugly safe in doing so, they are finding out that FF isn't the answer to all their online security problems. Mac computers are safe too, but as they gained popularity in recent years, vulnerabilities were discovered there as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 i installed FF3 and it didnt transfer over ANY of my bookmarks/ tabs... ffs now i gotta TRY and remember like 25 or 30..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 i installed FF3 and it didnt transfer over ANY of my bookmarks/ tabs... ffs now i gotta TRY and remember like 25 or 30..... Do like I did uninstall it and go back to FF2! I really didn't see any advantage, plus it used more resources than FF2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Do like I did uninstall it and go back to FF2! I really didn't see any advantage, plus it used more resources than FF2! Im not all that worried about resources Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted June 19, 2008 Author CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 As long as you use common sense, and do your scans for spyware, No worries. One of the reasons I use opera. While I am sure it has some vulnerability's, I just find it works, and on my machine its faster than firefox. Just don't let this news stop you from using firefox. If you like it, and it works fine on your computer, then continue to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 i installed FF3 and it didnt transfer over ANY of my bookmarks/ tabs... ffs now i gotta TRY and remember like 25 or 30..... Honestly, that's really weird. Mine transferred everything over no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Honestly, that's really weird. Mine transferred everything over no problem. Yea it doesn't make any since, it reads the same bookmark file. The only way it wouldn't would be if you told it not too import any bookmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 I have found it too be perfect so far i love the protection imiage lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 I still have all my bookmarks after i upgraded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted 2 Posted June 19, 2008 CID Share Posted June 19, 2008 Mine also grabbed all of my old bookmarks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xx Mazza xX Posted June 20, 2008 CID Share Posted June 20, 2008 same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted June 20, 2008 CID Share Posted June 20, 2008 Yea it doesn't make any since, it reads the same bookmark file. The only way it wouldn't would be if you told it not too import any bookmarks. Oddage. it didnt even ask, just installed and bam! absoluteluy nothing saved but cookies and saved form entries. No bookmarks, history, anything.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted June 21, 2008 CID Share Posted June 21, 2008 Oddage. it didnt even ask, just installed and bam! absoluteluy nothing saved but cookies and saved form entries. No bookmarks, history, anything.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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