Fire, fire(fox)!

About the catastrophic dangers of untimely action.

The Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane, in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, who was King Charles 2nd's baker. The story goes that one of the servants woke up around midnight to find the house on fire. By eight o'clock the next day, the fire had spread halfway across London Bridge, destroying around 80% of the city and killing nearly a fifth of the population. An example of how quickly a minor incident can turn into a major disaster.

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories 2005-43 and 2005-44 deal with two serious vulnerabilities which can be found in the popular Firefox browsers, versions up to 1.0.3, included. The vulnerability was announced last weekend, and it's taken the Firefox developers a long four days to come out with a patch, test it and release it to the public.(....)

You can get the Firefox 1.0.4 update here.

posted by Unknown @ 16:44