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I know a lot of you use this browser, I just stumbled across this warning article.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/120756

I hope I posted this properly.

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WOW! That is scarry! Good thing I only use firefox for this site, but alot of times I don't even do that lol. I usually am using Opera, but OPera does not allow the use of the toolbar so ya. Well, everbody be careful out there ok?

So what's it saying in english? Are they saying go to Mozilla's "update" or "addon" site and dowload patches? What's the whitelist? Do I have one?

Marshall,

I haven't researched this exhaustively  but what I have found is that Mozilla will be offering a patch but it is not ready yet. In the mean time, Mozilla recommends disabling Javascript until the patch is ready.

Myself, I'll go back to IE in the meantime. Without Javascript the web becomes more disinteresting and more labor intensive.

I found this article interesting in regards to Firefox Pros and Cons.  Nothing is perfect and one must use anything with caution and keep them up to date.

HTH

Emmo, Interesting article, makes sense.

These are the two things that I am wondering about. I read the part about the upcoming patches and understand it. But, I read something here and not sure what it means? Is this talking about new installation & downloads only?

"""In addition, the Mozilla Foundation has now made the flaws effectively impossible to exploit by changes to the server-side download mechanism on the update.mozilla.org and addons.mozilla.org sites, according to security experts."""


"""Mozilla Foundation said it has protected most users from the exploit by altering the software installation mechanism on its two whitelisted sites. However, users may be vulnerable if they have added other sites to the whitelist, it warned.

"We believe this means that users who have not added any additional sites to their software installation whitelist are no longer at risk," Mozilla Foundation said in a statement published on Mozillazine.org."""

I saw that too Marshall......My strategy was to just wait awhile and after they fix it. Uninstall it all from my system, clean the reg and then do a fresh install.  Less time consuming than for an illiterate like myself to try and figure out whether or not I reconfigured whatever it is they're talking about.

Emmo wrote:
You think like I do. LOL 

You think they'll post something on their website? I went there and didn't see any place for updates, etc.

Marshall wrote:

You noticed that too............

They don't provide much help in finding it.....not many links or mentions but here is where you would find them if/when available. I only found it by staggering around and tripping over it.  I probably should bookmark it because it took me a while to find it again this time.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/

There is also a place to have Firefox periodically check for updates.......go to tools ,click options, click advanced,(on the left), scroll down to software update and click the boxes for Firefox and extensions and themes, then click OK.

HTH 

Emmo, you be da man!

I knew you would take care of me. Thanks! 

Emmo, I just went to the updates area you pointed out in the brower itself. I said there was a critical update so I clicked to download it. It downloads a new updated Firefox and installs it while extracting the old one automatically. It's already done, took about 1 minute.

Thanks.