Bugs in the New Firefox Browser

A known computer hacker who last week claimed he found a vulnerability the new Firefox 2.0 browser has been forced to retracted claims that the hole can be exploited to actually hijack computers running the browser.

We are now led to believe that the demo he released was actually a hoax.

Okay... we can breath again and reconseign IE to the trash bin again. phew. The claim that a Javascript code could expose weaknesses now appear to be false.

Mark Speilmock on his website is quoted:

"I do not have 30 undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities, nor did I ever make this claim. I have no undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities, the main purpose of our talk was to be humorous. I apologize to everyone involved."

The new update to Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). was orginally posponed, but is now available for download at the mozilla website.