Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

I just ran across this article and wanted to share it because many people on here use Firefox.

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

Um... broken link? :(

--EDIT--
Use this: http://www.techspot.com/story17559.html

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

It works just fine for me.

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

Hm... works for me now too. Odd. I even tried it twice.

Thanks for the warning, Jay! :)

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

This is something to worry about for the moment, but what has made Firefox so popular (among other things) is that what few problems exist are fixed a very timely fashion courtesy of hard working open source programmers world wide!

In short, It won't last :)

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

/me loads up ie for a little while

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

The Firefox patch is out now to fix these security issues. Phew, now I can go back to Firefox! :D

Re: Critical flaw found in Firefox
 

Yay!

From: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secu...abilities.html

Fixed in Firefox 1.0.4
MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides
MFSA 2005-43 "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks
MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL