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Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to security issues

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Re: Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to security issues

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Post by ugh »

A 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.)

Re: Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to security issues

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Post by __bjoernd »

ugh wrote: post #2

A 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.)

http://www.xmarks.com/ comes in quite handy for this purpose. No Opera support, though. :/

Re: Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to security issues

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Post by colonelxc »

ronnier wrote: post #3

I 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.

Very 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 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...

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