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Of the seven vulnerabilities fixed, four are rated "critical" by Mozilla. The new browser version addresses the circumvention of security via an RSA signature forgery flaw, as well as cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. In addition, it patches a JavaScript regular expression heap corruption issue and a memory corruption issue that could lead to the execution of code.
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Why does it take days before FF alerts to the fact that it has an update available? I should be finding out about updates available from the update feature, not from reading about them in the press a day after they've been released.
the following settings:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced ->Update
1. Double-check that the checkbox next to Firefox is checked
(otherwise it's not looking for updates:)). I also have the others
checked as well ("Installed Extensions and Themes" as well as
"Search Engines").
2. Check the radio button next to either "Ask me what I want to
do" or "Automatically download and install update" for "When
updates to Firefox are found", depending on your preference (I
have mine to "Automatically download and install update", but
you might not want things happening behind your back :)).
3. Remember it's not likely to update itself unless it's running -
in other words if you haven't used FF over the last week (or only
used it for a few minutes at a time and then quit the program)
it's probably not tried to update itself yet, but should (silently)
do so when you fire it up. Also, consider what would happen to
Mozilla if all FF copies in the world hit their server
simutaneously. I'm sure they've mitigated against this by having
each copy pick a random day or time to check for updates, so
even if you have had it running 24/7 for the last month it might
not have "been it's time" yet.
Of course if you don't want to wait, you can "force" an update
anytime through the help menu.
Is FF the perfect browser? LOL. Software isn't perfect, that's a
simple fact of life. What's good about FF (besides being open
source and all that good stuff) is it isn't integrated perversely
with the OS like some other crapware browsers out there (yeah,
you KNOW what I'm talking about!). Oh, it tends to get fixed
faster too.
It nicely informed me as soon as I had shut it off and re-started it today (shrug).
Stop the open source movement its run by Terror groups and they greatly contribute to global warming, and the third world starving!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously...software is complicated and made by humans and will have bugs....whether its from MS or anyone else.
Compare the comments on this article to the other one today where IE had a new bug....it was a CNET, liberal, commie, MS Bash Fest!
As for MSN, you must use IE for that.
Just go elsewhere for your videos, not like there isn't a plethora of sites that DO work.
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2006/09/18/sot.mo.missing.baby.grandparents.ksdk&wm=11
The video is in WMV format... It's not possible that it won't play in IE
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Is it really time to start using Opera on our network?????
- When's Auto-Update WITHOUT USER INPUT coming?
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by gefitz
September 18, 2006 1:44 PM PDT
- When's Firefox going to come with functionality to automatically update Firefox WITHOUT USER INPUT? Am I missing that, or is it really not possible?
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(15 Comments)I'd love to get Firefox onto my corporate desktops, but trusting users to apply updates when they are available is simply NOT an option...