Just a day after its debut, Firefox 16 has been "temporarily removed" pulled from Mozilla's installer page while it addresses what is apparently a serious security flaw in the browser's latest version.
"The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters," Michael Coates. Mozilla's director of Security Assurance, said on the company's security blog. "At this time we have no indication that this vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild."
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Mozilla 'temporarily' pulls Firefox 16 to address security flaw
- 10 Oct 2012 #1
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- 27 Oct 2012 #2
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My System SpecsRe: Mozilla 'temporarily' pulls Firefox 16 to address security flaw
is firefox 16.0.2 safe to use?
- 27 Oct 2012 #3
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Yes, it has been updated since then.
- 27 Oct 2012 #4
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so I can safely upgrade to 16.0.2.
- 27 Oct 2012 #5
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