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So much for the much touted "security" of Firefox. :)
Isn't life just wonderful?

SHADENFREUD.
1 posted on 01/07/2005 3:06:34 PM PST by KwasiOwusu
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To: KwasiOwusu

So, how do you check whether your current firefox version is update-to-date?

I don't see a "check for updates" button or inks in the [about] or [tools] menus.


88 posted on 01/07/2005 6:38:26 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: KwasiOwusu

I don't know much about Firefox...
I am really slow to change from what I am use to.

I did download Firefox, but I asked my daughter about it.
She makes her living off of the internet.
She says that some web pages just do not work with Firefox
and told me I should not use it for now.


90 posted on 01/07/2005 6:40:27 PM PST by AlexW
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To: KwasiOwusu

I heard about this some time back. I believe it started in South America or somewhere around that area. Thay warned people it was on it's way here.


101 posted on 01/07/2005 8:13:46 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Pinging the Big Sky Guy to more discussion of this stuff (that is all Greek to me.) Get in here and bust a cap.


145 posted on 01/08/2005 11:03:50 AM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: KwasiOwusu

Actually, IIRC, this issue is serveral months old, and the problem is also found in IE, but I could be wrong.

I know that there was an exploit of this sort in IE that was announced on Secunia, and it may or may not have included Firefox.

Mark


155 posted on 01/08/2005 11:32:39 AM PST by MarkL (That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
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To: KwasiOwusu
Gettin a little desperate there, aren't you Woody?
163 posted on 01/08/2005 4:04:09 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Crawford Pirates, Texas State Football Champions!!!!!!!)
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To: KwasiOwusu
I used to hold software writers etc. in awe. Especially those who posted here at FR.

As this thread points out, they may be book smart, but real world stupid, as your reply #21 clearly shows.

After reading threads like this for several years now, I realize they're just average thinkers, and not much different than me when I fought with my childhood friends (sometimes real fist fights) about which tractor was better, John Deere, Farmall, or Allis Chalmers. The difference is, I grew up.

188 posted on 01/09/2005 9:54:25 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Liberalism has metastasized into a dangerous neurosis which threatens the nation's security)
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Firefox flaw raises phishing fears

They almost had the perfect title:

Firefox Flaw Furthers Phising Fears

190 posted on 01/09/2005 10:00:22 AM PST by TheOtherOne
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I just downloaded Firefox and still use IE. Fonts in Firefox seem strange to me. Either too big, too little, or a bizarre combination. IE does fonts well.
203 posted on 01/09/2005 12:44:39 PM PST by Vision (The New York Times...All the news to fit a one world government)
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To: KwasiOwusu
in addition to being the most hacked browser, IE is probably also the most secure.
217 posted on 01/10/2005 8:28:34 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (Leftists Are Losers.)
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