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Marcus Yam (Blog) - July 18, 2007 7:06 AM

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Firefox is a little bit more secure in new 2.0.0.5 version

Mozilla has released yet another incremental update for its Firefox 2.0 web browser. Important security fixes in the new Firefox 2.0.0.5 are: remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer, more crashes with evidence of memory corruption, unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents, privilege escallation using an event handler attached to an element not in the document, among others.

The last time the Firefox was updated was late May when 2.0.0.4 was released to address issues with XUL popup spoofing, path abuse in cookies, crashes with evidence of memory corruption and a number of other security-related concerns.

Firefox users can download 2.0.0.5 from Mozilla's homepage or use the auto update function within the browser. For those who like to live on the bleeding edge of browser software, the sixth alpha release of Firefox 3 is now available.

Firefox has slowly but surely been gaining more acceptance among all Internet users. A recent report found that Firefox usage in Europe is nearing 28 percent, with some countries posting 47.9 percent adoption for the Mozilla browser.

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Post under here

By Anh Huynh on 7/18/2007 1:21:22 PM , Rating: 2

For some reason, users can't post new comments but can reply to existing ones, so all comments, reply to this one or ones after it.

RE: Post under here

By mikecel79 on 7/18/2007 1:50:50 PM , Rating: 2

It appears you have it fixed now. See my new thread below.

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By MatthewAC on 7/18/2007 3:00:38 PM , Rating: 2

Well I use Opera and swear by t, it's definetly the best browser out there.
It may not have as many plugins as firefox and things like that, but as for ease of use, skins, security, and all other things that go into judging a web-browser I'm extremely happy with Opera, anyone else :P.

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By Oregonian2 on 7/18/2007 3:13:38 PM , Rating: 2

I always liked Opera whenever I tried it and was always impressed with it. Advanced features earlier than others. Never could stick to it though. Went from Netscape to Firefox (and Thunderbird). Love the plugins.

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By TomZ on 7/18/2007 4:00:08 PM , Rating: 2

I also liked Opera (mainly the GUI), but I found that quite a few web sites are not "optimized" (compatibility tested)for Opera. It seems like IE compatibility testing is typically done first, followed by Firefox. And if you're lucky, Opera will probably work, too.

I also found that Opera seems to render pages slower than IE and Firefox, for whatever that's worth.

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By SmokeRngs on 7/18/2007 6:14:34 PM , Rating: 2

I used to use Opera back in the version 3 and 4 days I believe it was. That was back when you had to pay for the browser. At the time, it seemed much faster than either IE or Netscape and it was the only "mainstream" browser with tabs and mouse gestures. Truthfully, the speed and memory footprint were the main reasons why I tried it. Mouse gestures were the reason I stuck with it and tabs were the reason why I waited until Firefox before switching browsers.

However, later versions than the ones I used were getting bloated and slower and I didn't like that. I stuck with the last "good" version (in my opinion) of Opera for as long as I could. It was getting to the point where I could not render a lot of pages and security things were missing. I could not stand to use IE (I've never liked it) and the Netscape browser at the time (I don't remember what version) was terrible.

Firefox was brought to my attention and I started to mess with that around version 0.7. I've been a loyal user of it since. It has the tabbed browsing and with an extension I have my mouse gestures (which I can't live without anymore). Other extensions keep me going with the browser. It's not the fastest and it can definitely get bloated with RAM usage (although I have enough RAM so I don't have to worry about it paging) but the extensions give it an easy to implement flexibility that I have gotten accustomed to.

It would take a browser that can do all that Firefox does and improve on it to make me switch. I don't currently see a browser out there which meets these requirements.

I've used the newer versions of Opera and I have no problems with them. The lack of "features" I use via extensions in Firefox keep me from using it on a regular basis.

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Looks good

By archcommus on 7/18/2007 2:29:38 PM , Rating: 4

I prefer IE7 due to its interface and website compatibility, but anything that helps MS get off its ass and improve their software is a good thing. If it wasn't for Firefox we'd probably still be stuck with IE5 without even a pop-up blocker.

RE: Looks good

By maroon1 on 7/18/2007 2:38:32 PM , Rating: 2

You can use IE Tab extension for firefox for rendering pages that supports only IE

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RE: Looks good

By TomZ on 7/18/07, Rating: 0

RE: Looks good

By fliguy84 on 7/18/2007 3:10:17 PM , Rating: 2

The point is that you can render those problematic pages with IE tab in Firefox without running it on IE in a separate window.

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By fic2 on 7/18/2007 4:22:16 PM , Rating: 3

I have had a few websites that don't work with FF. If they are a store front website then I email the webmaster and say that they lost X $$ in sales and I ended up buying from store Y because they didn't support FF.

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Testing

By mikecel79 on 7/18/2007 1:50:28 PM , Rating: 3

Test

FF is the best, but it varies

By Nik00117 on 7/19/2007 7:27:35 AM , Rating: 2

I read a pretty good article that talked about the different browsers, and it simply stated that there is simply too many vairables to determine which one is faster.

It stated thing such as your ISPs, the websits you go too etc all will make your web surfing experience different on each browser, and the best way to determine which browser is best for you is to use all 3.

I've used all 3, IE, FF, and Opera gotta tell you I perfer FF over all.