There is a patch for it: Go here: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=154 for the fix, and then restart Firefox. Also, you could <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.2/FirefoxSetup-0.9.2.exe">download 0.9.2</a> to get the fix. It's potentially significant, but it'd be pretty hard to exploit, and there are no known exploits in the wild. Only affects 2k and XP users. <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167475">Here's the bug location</a> in Bugzilla. <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250180">Or here</a> <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1621463,00.asp">Article about it</a>. Now this is the thing, it's not so much of a bug with Mozilla or Firefox, but rather a "vulnerability" with the way that Firefox works with Windows. Mozilla/Firefox passes any URIs it doesn't know to Windows and Windows automatically executes them. If Windows didn't automatically execute them (which a more secure OS wouldn't), it wouldn't be a problem. But, if Firefox didn't let Windows execute them with the browser's permissions (rather, force it to lower permissions), it'd be fixed too. So when it comes down to it, it's really kind of a shared problem, but it's certainly a problem that should be patched. <i>edit</i>: Also, it's a problem that would be fixed by Windows in SP2. Don't let that send you back to IE, or stop you from making the switch though. Firefox is still the best browser out there!
restart the browser, then if you go to the address bar and type: shell:.mp3 and it starts your MP3 program, it's not fixed.
you installed the extension, then restarted the browser, right? All Firefox windows were closed, including Download manager? If so, I'd try rebooting 1st, and if that doesn't do it (and another patch install doesn't), then I'd d/l and install 0.9.2.
Tabbed browsing is cool IE has its flaws. But - so do all the Mozilla versions. They have problems with some pages that use javascript. Whether this is caused by some proprietary javascript standards designed for IE is a different question, because they should be able to emulate that. With regards to security questions, I think one of the main reasons that there are less security problems in Mozilla/Firefox is mainly that there are much less users, so it is less attractive to find and exploit security issues.
God, I really hated this internet nowaday. I mean it's getting worse and worse! I'm getting sick and tired of having to clean and go through idiotic step to keep my compter clean almost constantly. Especially those hijack **** which totally p!sses me off. There should be a law against this spam crap. Its not even safe to surf p*rn anymore.
I wasn't joking! I'm serious, it took me to shell.com. I was like WTF??? Send them to my home addy Edit: Cool, I finally made someone's signature!
