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Wednesday, November 6, 2002

Mozilla Bugs? -- 1:12 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

A number of sites (most notably, Slashdot) are linking to this article on The Register about six "serious" and "nasty" bugs in Mozilla. What the article failed to state, or at least state clearly, is that five of these bugs are fixed in Mozilla 1.0.1 and the sixth is fixed in Mozilla 1.2 beta. For those of you keeping score at home, 1.0.1 came out two months ago. The release came with this note:

This release is a bug fix and security follow-up to Mozilla 1.0. Mozilla 1.0 users that have not already upgraded to Mozilla 1.1 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 1.0.1.

I'm all for timely bug reports so end users to make their system vulnerable. However, talking about problems that are already fixed without clearly pointing to said fix is nothing but FUD.

The Master comments: I saw those posts on both Slashdot and on C-Net the other day, and I thought they were making a lot out of nothing. Glad to see hyperbole still rules on the internet :-)

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