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Your door is a jar

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Monday 19th November 2007 20:28 GMT

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Mac or Windows or both? 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Monday 19th November 2007 21:28 GMT
Unhappy

Does the security flaw live in Mac, Windows or both?

ps: looks like it applies to Mac? 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Monday 19th November 2007 21:34 GMT
Unhappy

One may wish to Tools > Add-ons > NoScript > Preferences > edit preferences as it seems quite filled already?

@Mac or Windows or both? 

By Dan Goodin
Posted Monday 19th November 2007 23:27 GMT
staff

Anonymous Coward,

Good question. According to Mozilla, Linux, Mac and Windows versions of Firefox are vulnerable. We've updated our story to reflect this.

So much for the IE bashers 

By Steve Renouf
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 08:53 GMT
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Oh, so Firefox isn't immune to flaws afterall........!!

Rapid response 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 09:39 GMT

So much for the much-vaunted security advantages that Firefox is supposed to possess over IE! Eight months makes M$'s monthly update schedule seem prompt. Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox in preference to IE, but I'm sick of hearing the fanbois claim that Firefox is so much more secure.

NoScript blocks this 

By Ash
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 10:29 GMT

It has done for the past two or three revisions.

IE is worse 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:34 GMT
Gates Horns

@Anonymous Coward

As I recall, IE is even worse with this kind of hard-to-fix security issue. (We're talking years here.)

firefox still better than IE 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 17:07 GMT
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> I'm sick of hearing the fanbois claim that Firefox is so much more secure.

Well, I am not fanboy (I don't use Firefox) but, just because Firefox has bugs, it doesn't make it less secure than IE.

Firefox is much more secure than IE, even with this bug.

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