Comments on: Firefox add-on Greasemonkey slips up

Popular extension contains flaw that could let an attacker access a user's files. "Neutered" update has been released.

Oh crap

Here we go again....

MF doesn't make Greasemonkey

"The Mozilla Foundation is making available an update for a critical security flaw in Greasemonkey, an extension to the Firefox browser. "

Th Mozilla Foundation merely hosts the site that all these extensions can be s easily found on. Thy do not make nor release the extensions.

[nrlz]

point being?

I don't see anywhere in the article where they imply that Mozilla makes or releases those extensions.

A flaw in an extension was found and fixed and the Mozilla team is serving a fixed version of that extension for their customers. As simple as that.

[M C]

CNet reduced to reporting flaws in freeware utilities

Yawn.

making available

"The Mozilla Foundation is making available an update for a critical security flaw in Greasemonkey, an extension to the Firefox browser. "

"making available"

[Aditya Ratnaparkhi]

let us see here

one week 3 updates to mozilla firefox
plus their marketing site gets hacked because they don't apply "UPDATES"
all this with less than 10% market share

& we are suppose to belive FF is much secure

[Scott W]

well

well, you can go shout "HOORAY! THANK GOD I USE IE!" right before ANOTHER critical update is released which was exploited on your computer at least 5X already. yeah, go on have your fun. the fox may have flaws but at least they get patched. and usually before they get exploited. MS WAIT for a hole to be exploited before they BEGIN making a patch.

[saleen351]

LOL

They have about 7% now with a half % added each month and 1.0 has only been out since Nov....

The avg user has never heard of GM....

[cupsdell]

A clarification

2 updates to firefox in 1 week, not 3. 1.0.5 was a security update, and 1.0.6 fixed a non-security issue introduced in 1.0.5.

Also, the marketing site breach had nothing to do with the security of the Firefox browser.

SpreadFirefox is not Firefox the browser

The article specifically states "in the software that runs SpreadFirefox.com" which is not Firefox. Methinks there some IE-lickers here.