*sigh* Even Firefox isn't 100% safe under Windows

[ciphergoth]

If you are running Firefox, Thunderbird or Mozilla under Windows, you need this patch right away or you will still be vulnerable to remote exploit. Users of other operating systems are not affected; the vulnerability is in Windows, but Firefox has been patched to work around it.

If you have just gone through the inconvenience of installing Firefox because of the vulnerability in IE, my heart goes out to you. I hope you'll take comfort in the fact that a fix for this problem is already available in Firefox and Mozilla (within a day of the exploit being published), while it seems there is still no effective fix for the problem in IE, so you still made the right choice.

Comments

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Hey, I had to click THREE TIMES to install that patch! I want a refund! ;)

Ignoring, of course, the fact that I had to manually reconfigure windows update and install a 100-MB Service Pack to 'fix' it in IE, and could only do so for IEv6 on the XP box.

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

It worked first time for me (but you do have to restart Firefox to see it.)

And it was out within a day of disclosure. MS still haven't completely fixed IE.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

Worked first time for me as well. But it installed so quickly that I wasn't sure it was there until I checked...

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

Well quite, it's a tiny fix. And the fact it doesn't show on the "Extensions" list even though installing it displays that list is confusing.

[reddragdiva]

That's because the 'patch' actually changes one line of an obscure user preference, to disable use of the "shell" extension.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

As in I had to make three mouseclicks, not as in I had to try three times.

Admittedly it's all of 6 mouseclicks if you count the restart.