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Mozilla Updates Firefox To Patch QuickTime Bug

Sep 19, 2007   11 am
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firefox-logo Six days after proof-of-concept code was released for a long-unpatched bug in Apple’s QuickTime media player, Firefox is updated with a fix.

Last week, Mozilla confirmed that a year-old unpatched vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime media player opens up a backdoor that could allow a hacker to break into Firefox. A researcher who discovered the flaw posted proof-of-concept exploits for it on his blog.

Now a week later, Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.7 to patch the QuickTime vulnerability.

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Site owners fight back against Firefox for aggressive Adblocking

Aug 18, 2007   2 pm
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firefox-ie Adblock effectively robs these free sites of their revenue. If Internet Explorer came with a feature such as Adblock, it would effectively wipe out thousands of websites, maybe more. These are the same free sites users of Adblock frequently visit. The irony is how this is self-defeating.

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