FireFox 3.0 is CRAP Vista News Discuss FireFox 3.0 is CRAP in the Windows Vista forums; Mozilla won't fix 80% of Firefox 3.0's bugs Today, November 14, 2007, 8 minutes ago Mozilla Corp. will fix just 20% of the bugs now in Firefox ...

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Mozilla won't fix 80% of Firefox 3.0's bugs
Today, November 14, 2007, 8 minutes ago
Mozilla Corp. will fix just 20% of the bugs now in Firefox 3.0 before the final version is released next year, the open-source developer's Web site revealed yesterday.

As Mozilla pushes to post Beta 1 of Firefox 3.0, it has asked developers to prioritize already-identified bugs so that the most important can be fixed. But according to notes of yesterday's Firefox 3.0 status meeting, that will leave about eight in 10 bugs untouched.

"We have 700 bugs currently marked as blockers," the notes read. "That's too many. We're asking [requiring] component owners to set priorities on blockers, as a first pass of what bugs should be Beta 2 blockers. You want it to be about 10% of blockers, or what you can get done in four weeks."

Mozilla usually refers to a bug as a "blocker" when the flaw is serious enough to justify postponing a release.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...rce=rss_news10

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Mozilla: Firefox 3 bug claim 'horses**t'
Today, November 16, 2007, 7:16:05 PM
Asa Dotzler used the term to describe his feelings toward a claim that it is bypassing as many as eight out of every 10 Firefox bugs.

A story in the New York Times Thursday by IDG analyst Gregg Keizer claimed that only 20 percent of the bugs within Firefox 3 would be fixed by the time it will be released next year.

Apparently some 700 bugs are currently marked as "blockers" -- issues that are bad enough to warrant postponing a release. The company said this is too much, and said that developers need to prioritize what bugs are most important.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Mozi...est/1195235706

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Firefox Exploit leads to Hack for Google Accounts
Yesterday, November 17, 2007, 2:31:00 PM
Google user accounts are vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks through a dangerous Firefox exploit, which is still in the wild some 10 days after its discovery. A client or server-side exploit can be inserted into .zip files via open document formats from Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice, and uploaded to a server where the Firefox JAR protocol extracts the compressed data. Affected platforms range from Web mail clients, collaboration and document sharing systems and other Web 2.0 applications from large software vendors. Users can download a NoScript add-on for Firefox to block JavaScript and executable content from untrusted Web sites, and can secure their Google accounts by remaining signed out whenever possible.

The reason Google accounts, including Gmail, can be targeted more easily is because of a 302 redirect error in Google, discovered by bedford.org's Morgan Lowtech, which creates a domain-wide cross-site scripting attack. This allows hackers to gain access and modify Google user accounts including e-mails, contact lists and online presence. While Mozilla has not issued a solution to the problem, application firewalls and proxy servers can be used to block Windows Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs) that contain the JAR protocol, while Web administrators can use a reverse proxy to prevent malicious content from being uploaded.

News source: PC World

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Ha not suprised the War is won all hail IE7 and IE7+ FF is worst than IE6 was!

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Firefox: On leaky memory and bumping blockers
Today, November 21, 2007,
Although Firefox 3.0 leaks less memory than its predecessor, Mozilla Corp.'s lead engineer today wouldn't promise that every last hole has been plugged.

Talking the day after the company released the first beta of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, called the browser's problems "quite complicated" but said he was confident that users will see significant improvements in how it handles memory.

"There are a number of different memory issues, including when Firefox doesn't return allocated memory to the system," Schroepfer said, referring to the classic leak that's driven Firefox's reputation as a memory hog. Over the years, users have complained that the longer Firefox is left running, the more memory it consumes; ultimately, it grabs enough to slow down the host computer.



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[Mustangman76]

I like Firefox quite abit tbh, Its alot faster then IE ever will be, It doesn't nag as much as IE does, And its totally customizable. Imo it will always be better then IE.