Wow, talk about fodder for the MS people, seems a new critical vulnerability has been discovered in Firefox 1.0.3. Basically a site could create and execute a local file, looks like something related to FF’s pseudo-ActiveX implementation?? Not an expert on that…
Anyhoo, looks like the only known fix is to remove all sites from your download whitelist in the Options. Would highly recommend that for everyone…
Due to some widespread problems for some users clicking on links, Opera 8.01 Preview 1 has been released. Mainly just bug fixes…
Also, to followup on my previous post, the 05/07 nightly (trunk) build of Firefox now seems to be stabler, and you can at least install extensions, although I think my problems were I was using an older profile; using a new profile, it works fine (duh!).
However, most of the current themes will break. Apparently there have been some changes in that realm, not surprisingly.
But in general, most extensions I use seem to work, although changing Options for them now involves changing them via user.js, as the Options window interaction for a majority of them seem to be buggy. And a few just won’t work (Tab Mix, etc.), including those that don’t conform to having a GUID as their internal ID; the latter is easily fixable by changing it in the install.rdf yourself before installing. But for the most part you can get a good jumpstart with the nightlies if you want.
In general, the speed-up is nice, but the speed of it and that of the UI is still much slower than Opera. Going back…
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