Mike Shaver

Member since: Jan 10th, 2008

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Firefox security questioned again as another exploit surfaces (Download Squad)

Jul 19th 2009 6:47PM Have you seen much evidence of attackers using source analysis to find security bugs? In my experience with Mozilla, virtually all security issues found by people outside the project are found using the same black-box techniques as are employed on proprietary software. One difference, though, is that we report all security issues we find, even if they are never published by anyone else, so naive comparison of "known bugs" can be misleading.

Firefox security questioned again as another exploit surfaces (Download Squad)

Jul 19th 2009 6:44PM This report is incorrect. The bug in question is not exploitable, and in fact doesn't even crash FF3.5 on Windows. Please see http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/ for more details, and feel free to contact press@mozilla.com if you have questions about future security (or other) reports that you read. We all do better when we don't have to spend time and energy responding to false reports. :-(

Ask TUAW: MacBook Pro sleep problems, multiple Firefoxes, Christmas music and more (TUAW.com)

Jan 10th 2008 12:12PM "Bon Echo" was the development codename for Firefox 2, and I don't know of any optimizations that didn't make the final release. Regardless, it would still need to operate on a different profile and use the same "don't use an existing instance" indicators as any other Firefox or close derivative.

Ask TUAW: MacBook Pro sleep problems, multiple Firefoxes, Christmas music and more (TUAW.com)

Jan 10th 2008 11:18AM You don't need to spend $14.95 to run multiple Firefoxes, happily! For the Firebug case, you should definitely check out the Firebug 1.1 beta, which you can get from http://fireclipse.xucia.com/#Downloads .

In the more general case, Firefox supports multiple profiles -- out of the box, for free --and can run different instances on different profiles at the same time. http://blog.codefront.net/2007/08/20/how-to-have-firefox-3-and-firefox-2-running-at-the-same-time/ has a great explanation of this.