New Ubuntu-Firefox - maybe safer but not 100%

nocturn ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Fri May 13 07:13:14 UTC 2005


Gábor Iglói Wrote: 
> Hi!
> I've updated my Firefox today, I think that this was a security update
> (because the 1.0.4 came out yesterday). As the usual Ubuntu way I
> suppose there wasn't a version switch from 1.0.2->1.0.4 only the new
> security patches were applied.
> 
> But unforunately Mozilla won't let me to thier Themes and Extensions
> web pages with my new Ubuntu Firefox 1.0.2 till I don't upgrade to
> 1.0.4. So it seems that the security patches won't be enough this time
> - we should change to the v1.0.4 or at least do something to fool
> Mozilla to allow us to get our extensions and themes.
> 

In any case, the version you installed only has patches from 1.0.3
AFAIK.
A good thing is that the exploit has been difused that way.


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nocturn


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