I feel a bit more secure with Firefox knowing the development team is nimble enough to apply fixes to vulnerabilities within days after being exposed. I’m not sure about the other browsers. To me, that’s what sets Firefox apart from the others.
Firefox just released version 2.0.0.8 which fixes eight vulnerabilities. Two of them are critical, four moderate and two with low impact. One was causing system crashes resulting in memory corruption. The other is scripting with the XPCNativeWraper allowing the attacker to have the same privilege as the user.
If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you may noticed an upgrade recently or if you haven’t yet, you will be getting a notice fairly soon. Firefox just recently upgraded their browser to version 2.0.0.2 to correct several security bugs. Here’s the release notes for the latest version. One thing I really appreciate about the [...]