PSA: Browser Security issues

[beetle]

Some of you may have seen this, some not.

http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1036653573.html

Happy reading! :D

[jkd]

Kind of misleading.

Of the 6 listed vulnerabilities in Mozilla, the 5 serious ones were fixed as of Mozilla 1.0.1, which was months ago. The privacy issue with onunload was fixed in 1.1, which also a long time ago.

Therefore, there are no known vulnerabilities if you have gotten a version of Mozilla within say a month or two.

IE on the other hand, with every single Windows Update applied, you are still subject to 31 exploits which can compromise your computer, any of which is infinitely worse than a document.referrer privacy leak found in early 1.1 builds.