[Swordmaker]

I think this article is FUD... are any of you seeing your FireFox "Check for updates..." grayed out if you are not an Administrator User? Mine's not. PING!

How about you Windows and Linux users? This guy says it affects ALL...

Mac OSX Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[CarlosFonke]

How about you Windows and Linux users? This guy says it affects ALL...

Check for updates is greyed out out for me in debian, but I run Swiftfox. It's in my repositories list so it checks for updates every time I update the system, which I do 2-3 times per week.

No worries here.

[AFreeBird]

Linux here, FF 3.5.2, I don’t see an update option. But then I never run it as root, so I can’t say if that option shows up if done so. In fact, all my FF security updates come from the opensuse mozilla repository, and it’s checked with other system and application updates. And those do require root privileges to install.

[AFreeBird]

Update: Okay, I found the update option in Linux FF 3.5.2. It's buried in Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Update. As a non root user, it's grayed out.

Like I said, I get all my updates from the repositories, and that's checked by the Yast updater.

[shorty_harris]

Grayed out for me too...Ubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3.0.13

[CedarDave]

How about you Windows and Linux users? This guy says it affects ALL...

Running XP Home as many do and have no problems. It just wants me to update from 3.0.13 to 3.5.2 which I won't do for another few months until they have the bugs worked out of 3.5.

I suppose I could log in as a non-administrator and see what happens, but don't have the time to mess with it.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Not grayed-out here in my non-admin account.

I'm using the latest OS X and the latest Firefox.

Shrug.

I'd check on my WinXP system, but that since non-admin accounts are so useless on that OS, it runs as admin.
,br> The article is not just FUD, it's false, incorrect, bogus.

And why is it that when a vulnerability of this sort is alleged, it's always "OMG there's a vulnerability on the Mac!!!! ...and Windows and Linux too..."?