Vulnerability Found! Firefox 16 Removed from Installer Page

[firestr001]

Mozilla has temporarily removed Firefox 16 from the current installer page after it found a security vulnerability in the new version of its browser, it said on Wednesday.

The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL (uniform resource locator) or URL parameters, Michael Coates, director of security assurance at Mozilla said in a blog post.

Mozilla does not however have any information that the vulnerability is currently being "exploited in the wild," he added. It is working on a fix and plans to ship updates on Thursday.

Firefox 16 has been temporarily removed from the current installer page and users will automatically be upgraded to the new version as soon as it becomes available, Coates wrote.

Firefox version 15 is unaffected, and as a precaution users can downgrade to version 15.0.1. Or they can wait until Mozilla's patches are issued and automatically applied to address the vulnerability, Coates said.

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[Littlebits]

Too bad, I hope they fix it soon. Firefox 16 really runs much lighter than previous version.

Good day.

 

[arsenaloyal]

its fixed in 16.0.1, hmm but a fiasco for firefox none the less.

 

[Littlebits]

Yes the vulnerabilities are fixed but this is one heck of a buggy update.
It disables all of the text functions on this forum and several others that I visit. I had to downgrade back to v.15.0.1 in order to get back the text functions. Mozilla better get on the ball, Google Chrome hasn't released a buggy update in awhile now. I find myself using Google Chrome more and more.

Thanks.

 

[bitbizket]

Yes the vulnerabilities are fixed but this is one heck of a buggy update.
It disables all of the text functions on this forum and several others that I visit. I had to downgrade back to v.15.0.1 in order to get back the text functions. Mozilla better get on the ball, Google Chrome hasn't released a buggy update in awhile now. I find myself using Google Chrome more and more.

Thanks.

I had problem trying to insert a hyperlink to one of my post here but couldn't get it done. So now i know what causing it.

:blush:

 

[3link9]

When I first downloaded 16.0 it was buggy as it was loading all the webpages weirdly and somewhat slowly, it also crashed twice.

Its trying to download 16.0.1 now but I am kinda worried how even more buggy its going to be :/

 

[McLovin]

It was funny, I updated it on my desktop fine which was version 16, then 5 minutes later went to update it on my laptop and was not there, ha proves how fast they remove it.