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Five hours after Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.0, researchers found a vulnerability in the new browser.
Tipping Point has verified the bug and reported it to Mozilla, Tipping Point said on Wednesday.
Since Mozilla is still working on a fix, the researchers won't share details about the problem. Tipping Point ranked the severity of the vulnerability as high, but said that users would have to click on a link in an e-mail or visit a malicious Web page before being affected. The issue affects users of Firefox 3.0 as well as Firefox 2.0.
Once the problem is fixed, Tipping Point will publish an advisory on its Web site, it said.
Tipping Point found out about the vulnerability through its Zero Day Initiative, which lets researchers earn cash by submitting new vulnerabilities to the company. Once Tipping Point validates the issue, it pays the researcher for the information and notifies the relevant software vendor of the technical details.
Mozilla did not respond to a request for comment.
Mozilla launched its newest browser on Tuesday along with a marketing stunt that went a bit wrong. The company announced that it wanted to set a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. However, the volume of downloads crippled Mozilla's site, and so customers in the U.S. couldn't begin downloading the software until two hours later than expected. Still, Mozilla said it logged more than 8 million downloads within 24 hours. There is currently no record for number of software downloads in a day, but Mozilla must now wait for review of the stunt by Guinness officials.
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Firefox 3 sucksBy Developer on March 20, 2009, 7:05 pmI was so happy with firefox, and then came ver 3 and it destroyed everything. Havin multiple problems, like it doesn't remember the user id's and passes for hundreads...
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firefox 3 sucksBy jones on February 15, 2009, 4:36 amI hate it.From booting up my PC this morning it took 7 minutes for Firefox to start up.When it does work it seems to close down on its own which has cost me loads...
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Seems your bad computer cantBy Anon on February 15, 2009, 2:12 amSeems your bad computer cant handle the simplicity of virus protection web browser
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FireFox 3 sucksBy Anon on January 5, 2009, 4:04 pmSubject line says it all. I made the mistake of downloading firefox 3 and now things are missing. If I wanted a substandard browser I would have use IE. Where can...
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LaughingBy Anon on December 6, 2008, 7:09 amI have to laugh, the fact of the matter is that I keep going back to IE. I won't be trying FF 3 for at least another year. As soon as I read OS integration, the...
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