Steven.S wrote:Does anyone else have issues when visiting the proof of concept site for the new IE vulnerability? Go to the article at security.ithub site and click the link for the proof of concept. The Windows XP link on that page freezes my browser and causes 100% CPU usage. The only way I can stop it is closing Firefox. On IE it opens up calc.exe because of the vulnerability, but it shouldn't cause problems with Firefox as far as I know.
Can anyone confirm it's a possible bug?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051120 Firefox/1.5
Can somebody file a bug for this who has the privileges? I tried searching for an existing bug and couldn't find one, but I'm not all that good with bugzilla searching.
Nevermind, the bug has already been reported: Bug 317334
runab0ut, those bugs are not the "official" Firefox 1.5 bugs. Those are merely the bugs that Peter deems the most annoying/important for everyone. This could have to do with being most commonly reported, or simply just the most visible. For the list of the official release version blocking bugs, look below the red list to the seperate bugzilla query links. In particualr the one for "Bugs confirmed for blocking ___". These are the ones that are required to be fixed prior to release. You'll note that "Firefox 1.5" no longer has an entry, since all its blockers are gone.
DeepFreeze3 wrote:Hmmm ... interesting that AUS starts working again mere hours before the official release of Firefox 1.5 happens.
I'll try a manual update on "the big day" and see if it works for me or not.
It turns out that the system that builds nightly updates is quite separate from the release one. And the one guy who knows the update builds systems best was away last week. No need to be concerned, or to see conspiracies where there are none.
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