A Firefox zero-day vulnerability [LWN.net]

A Firefox zero-day vulnerability

Posted Oct 27, 2010 17:14 UTC (Wed) by did447 (guest, #49454)
In reply to: A Firefox zero-day vulnerability by bjacob
Parent article: A Firefox zero-day vulnerability

They ask for it, no?

From the blog
In the meantime, users can protect themselves by doing either of the following:

* Disabling JavaScript in Firefox
* Using the NoScript Add-on

Great advices, err no, that's PR damage control.

With Firefox market share and today Web:

In the meantime, users can protect themselves by doing either of the following:
* not using Firefox until it's fixed.
* unplugging the computer.

would be better.

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A Firefox zero-day vulnerability

Posted Oct 27, 2010 18:05 UTC (Wed) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

So, for comparison, does IE, Chrome, Opera, Safari and whatnot recommend that users switch to another browser if/when they have a serious vulnerability?

A Firefox zero-day vulnerability

Posted Oct 27, 2010 19:13 UTC (Wed) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059) [Link]

That would be a miracle on 34th street.