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FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« on: March 29, 2009, 10:20:55 AM »
The Pwn2own security contest revealed security leaks in all major browsers and Mozilla has been the first to react...
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Interesting to note FireFox security was hacked on a MAC machine...not on a Windows PC.
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Re: FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2009, 11:33:41 AM »
Where have you been? ;) Firefox 3.0.8

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Re: FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2009, 08:48:20 PM »
And I thought they were touting google chrome to be the best so far in preventing zero day attacks from being activated due to the sandboxed feature built into the chrome browser?

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Re: FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2009, 09:03:30 PM »
With the right knowledge anything can be cracked...

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Re: FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2009, 04:28:26 PM »
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Re: FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2009, 05:54:45 AM »
Where's MagicSpeed?
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Re: FireFox 1st with security patch after contest
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2009, 06:33:25 AM »
nobody asked where I've been. I was at the local pleasure center, which is just four ewe's tied to a pole.
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