Just Posted: "Stopgap Fix for Critical Firefox 3.5 Security Hole"

The Washington Post ^ | July 14, 2009 | Brian Krebs

[CedarDave]

... until Mozilla can ship an update to quash this bug, Security Fix is posting instructions to help readers protect themselves from this vulnerability.

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Fortunately, there is a relatively easy fix for this that can be reversed once Mozilla issues a patch. To disable the vulnerable component, open up a new Firefox window and type "about:config" (without the quotes) in the browser's address bar. In the "filter" box, type "jit" and you should see a setting called "javascript.options.jit.content". You should notice that beside that setting it reads "true," meaning the setting is enabled. If you just double-click on that setting, it should disable it, changing the option to "false." That's it.

[markedmannerf]

Thanks for this information!

[Lucian]

Filehippo.com has every version in incrementals back at least 1.5 if you need them

[papasmurf]

OFF TOPIC: FF 3.5 is horrible on 64 bit Win 7. Stalls, crashes, jumping, jittery, etc.

Then again, IE 8 (64) isn’t much better, and there is no Flash available for it yet, either.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

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