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Netscape Packs Same Bug Microsoft Patched Two Months Ago | |
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| Time: 16:20 EST/21:20 GMT | News Source: NewsBytes | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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GreyMagic Security, which has recently reported more than a half-dozen vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, released Tuesday its first warning for users of AOL's Netscape version 6.1 and the Mozilla open source browser project from which much of the Netscape code is derived. The company said a Mozilla-based component known as XMLHTTP that uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) to interpret exchanges with Web severs can be tricked into opening a doorway to files located on an Internet user's own computer. | ||
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| #1 By 531 (66.188.129.246) at 5/1/2002 5:15:58 PM |
| Uh huh, #1, well, since Microsoft has to regression test it's patches at an OS level to see if it happens to break anything, and Mozilla has to regression test it's patches on... well, nothing, maybe it should take a little bit longer for MS to release a patch. |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/1/2002 5:47:10 PM |
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#1 - So did the Mozilla team complete there entire suite of regression tests on 5/1/02?
There is a fairly well documented set of tests, I'm not sure how much is actually automated, but I suspect it would take more than 1 day to verify the patch. http://mozilla.org/quality/ Then how is Mozilla distributing this fix? Do they have a patchset for the current release of the browser? Oh wait, what's that you say? Mozilla hasn't released to production yet. Hmm, damn, so they probably don't need to go to all the work of building and testing a patch. Well what do you know... An apples to oranges comparison. How incredibly typical of OSS proponents. "We don't need to test our stuff... oops I guess that didn't work after all" This post was edited by sodablue on Wednesday, May 01, 2002 at 17:47. |
| #3 By 2960 (24.168.201.39) at 5/1/2002 10:14:44 PM |
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Mac,
Mozilla, to me, is nothing like Netscape 6. If I understand correctly, Netscape 6 is based on a rather old build of Mozilla, and is not really the same browser. I never cared much for Netscape 6. I started trying out Mozilla RC1 a few days ago. It is impressive. The tabbed-browsing and bookmark grouping features are quite useful. Speed is good. I'll probably get beat up for this (oh, well :)), but I think it's as fast or maybe a bit faster than IE 6, but not quite as fast as IE 5.0. The control offered over Java is nice as well. It's not perfect, but it is definetely a contender. Oh, and one other thing has been fixed that has always annoyed me about netscape, and I admired about IE. It _finally_ maintains HTML formatting properly when you cut chunks of a web page out and paste them into an HTML enabled email program. Netscape was horrible at this. Mozilla 1.0RC1 seems to handle this as well as IE does now. It's also missing an effective "Send Via Email" option like IE has. I use this at work all the time, and really need it. It has a menu option that sounds like it does this, but in my tests so far all it's done is opened up an email and pasted in a link to the site. I want the _site_ to show up in the email body, like I can with IE. I'm sure it'll get there :) TL |
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