Posted on 03/11/2013 7:11:28 AM PDT by Nachum
Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox all fell to the mercy of the hackers Thursday. That is, in a controlled environment. Security firms Vupen and MWR Labs were able to crack the browsers during a condoned bug-hunt, with one company winning $100,000 for finding a huge hole. The Pwn2Own competition is an event at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. The competition was created by HP’s DVLabs as part of its Zero Day Initiative: an attempt to get more people to find and report bugs as opposed to exploiting them for personal gains.
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I just started FF and it’s up to v19.0, already, with updates and fixes.
Yes, and that’s because some of my CAD programs are windoze only.
I got a “search here” virus on my Firefox browser.. had to stop using it. too bad, I really liked that browser. been using Chrome since then which is faster anyway. I plan on trying that Slimbrowser.. was never into the Opera browser.
Well it is worn out in a way. Its like a old house which hasn’t been maintained and nobody cares enough to secure it.
All the windows and doors are wide open and you have a sign welcoming people who want to steal from you.
Nothing is 100% secure, or even 90% secure.
So, you don't feel that the entrants in the competition are the same ones who attack systems for fun and profit? What would keep that kind out?
I've long suspected that the companies which sell anti-virus and computer fixes hire people to create new problems so that they can sell the "fix". I'd love to be proven wrong.
I find that to free up system memory I need to restart firefox once or twice a day. No Problem as long as firefox will reopen the same windows I had prior to shutdown, in the same taskbar order. 3.6.xx does that. All subsequent version do not. On restart, newer ff’s reverse the order of the windows in the taskbar.
If any freeper wants to try this on their ff version, just launch the Windows Task Manager and under the Process tab, select Firefox and right-click to End Process. When ff restarts it will have an oops msg, you select to Restore and see what the outcome is.
True, that.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712763
Loads saved windows in reverse order when starting, previous selected window ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED (but its not)
Component: Session Restore
Target Milestone: Firefox 21 (someday I guess)
“...will have an oops msg...”
No thanks; reminds me too much of the BSOD. Haven’t had one of those in I-can’t-remember-when, so I’ll pass on it.
Oops ...
Nothing more than the restart message from ff when there has been a crash. If I stop ff in Task Manager the restart thinks there was a crash. Fine, no issue here.
It’s just there is no fix from ff, see post 29.
So you’d prefer to have gaping holes in the security of your desktop?
“I got a “search here” virus on my Firefox browser.. had to stop using it. “
The ‘cure’ for that problem is to ‘reset’ Firefox.
Go to ‘Help’ > ‘Trouble Shooting Information’ > ‘Reset Firefox’ (on the top right). Click it.
Firefox will reset to ‘default’ without losing your Bookmarks or saved passwords.
It will then create and ‘old Firefox’ folder on the desktop that you can either keep as a ‘backup’ or delete.
I deleted mine. (After all, that’s where the problem was in the first place)
Why don’t you use a virtualized version with the updated browser, specifically to access your bank, then just leave the version you want on your computer.
Da-YAM!!! that just sped up everything about a zillion times!!!
While we are here, how do I stop the auo-recall or auto-insert function in FF. It remembers account info.
You do realize OSX was the first broken OS for 3 straight years. Being on OSX doesn’t make you safe online.
As long as the leftists are in power, I will never be safe on line.
Preferences—>Security—>Passwords
This is the first I’ve heard of Slimbrowser. How does it compare to Firefox or IE9?
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