Firefox passes in 2.0.0.6 and corrects fault URI 2007-07-31
The users of Firefox 2 will undoubtedly have noticed this morning that the module of update automatic of the software suggested to them the installation of a new update, 2.0.0.6. Proposed with the remote loading less than one month after the release of the preceding version of the navigator, this update comes to correct the fault relating to the identifier of resource “firefoxurl: /” discovered mid-July. This identifier of resources (URI, or Uniform Resource To identify) for example is used by the software to launch a third application starting from a bond placed on a Web page.
This fault recently was the subject of a controversy between Mozilla and Microsoft. At the time of its discovery, this one implied the joint use of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To exploit it, it was initially necessary to charge a bond corrupted in Internet Explorer, then to send information to Firefox, which then appeared likely to launch a software without the assent of the user. The first response of Mozilla was to explain why only Internet Explorer was with blamer, but the foundation then quickly reconsidered its position for reconnaitre that Firefox was also concerned. From where this correction, which should quickly be related to Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
A report/ratio of the US dated July 27 CERT raises however new problems: this fault could indeed be inherent in Windows, as from the moment when Internet Explorer 7 is installed on the system. The denrière version of the navigator would have indeed modified the way in which Windows interprets the protocols of call
