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Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to security issues
- ugh 17y agoA government office which warns when widely used browsers have vulnerabilities – good idea or bad idea? I’m not really all that sure about that. (But here’s a idea for you: find a way to keep the 4+ browsers I have installed in sync so that I can switch at a moments notice without any problems.)
- __bjoernd 17y agohttp://www.xmarks.com/ http://www.xmarks.com/ comes in quite handy for this purpose. No Opera support, though. :/
- ronnier 17y agoI recommend removing the Adobe Acrobat plugin from FireFox. Just last night while visiting a trusted site, it tried to launch an exploited Adobe Acrobat file. The file was served from a 3rd party ad site that had been hacked. Dangerous.
- colonelxc 17y agoVery good advice. Also, if you do use adobe, make sure you are fully updated (9.3.1). The 9.3.0 libtiff exploit is available via metasploit: http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_libtiff http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/fileformat... Adobe themselves also need to update, since if you go download from their website, they'll give you 9.3.0: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3/enu/AdbeRdr930_en_US.exe http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3/enu...
- jonny_noog 17y agoFirefox was not immediately available for comment. ... Hopefully the non-sentient Internet browser will have something to say for its self a bit later on.