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Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H)Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H)Posted Oct 15, 2012 10:44 UTC (Mon) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)Parent article: Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H)
I'm sort of suprised Mozilla pulled the 16 release. The vulnerability doesn't seem that great to me; reading the Ars Technica report, it seems like all it can do is examine URL redirection of another window. Not great, and it's good that they fixed it promptly, but pulling the release seems like overkill to me.
From the outside it looks like Mozilla generally sit on minor vulnerabilities and fix them in the next release - I'm not sure why this case should be any different (and I imagine it generated more negative press from clueless people.)
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Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H) Posted Oct 15, 2012 20:05 UTC (Mon) by Kaejox (guest, #85586) [Link]
I wouldn't call it "minor vulnerability" but not sure if pulling 16.0 was really needed.
Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H) Posted Oct 16, 2012 15:42 UTC (Tue) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
There's also a question of bandwidth... why "spend" the bandwidth on a download of 16.0 if 16.1 will be out five days later.
Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H) Posted Oct 18, 2012 15:00 UTC (Thu) by joedrew (guest, #828) [Link]
It was actually released the very next day (same day for Android). :)
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