"Another Critical Firefox Vunerability Emerges"

[MoonOwl]

I came across this and thought I'd pass it on:


Another Critical Firefox Vulnerability Emerges

 

[ssl]

I am sure that one derives from the fact that unicode is not a fixed-width storage 'feature' -- ASCII is exactly 7-bits long (the 8th bit of a byte is ignored in strict-ascii; ibm extended ascii to fully use the 8 bits for more characters in different languages).

Therefore, an ASCII data processor is coded to always work with 1 byte.

Unicode's size per character is anywhere from 1 to 4 bytes, and which is which is not always easy to figure out.

This vulnerability, while not good, is not entirely unexpected.

 

[Dana]

I just updated mine.

 

[Dakota Jim]

Just disabled Java. Thanks for the info.

 

[Zoidberg]

Firefox has been getting worse and worse since version 3.0 was released, in my opinion. It takes 10 seconds to open and often freezes on web pages when loading images. I never though I'd say this, but I might start using Safari.

 

[Dana]

Firefox has been getting worse and worse since version 3.0 was released, in my opinion. It takes 10 seconds to open and often freezes on web pages when loading images. I never though I'd say this, but I might start using Safari.

I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing the freezing.