German Government: No Firefox 3.6 for You!
German Government: No Firefox 3.6 for You!
Posted 03/23/2010 at 5:35am
| by Paul Lilly
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Mozilla's latest browser ushers in a bunch of new features and security enhancements, but not everyone is impressed with Firefox 3.6. Among the browser's critics is the German federal computer security agency.
"Buerger-CERT recommends the use of [an] alternative browser until Mozilla has released Firefox version 3.6.2," Buerger-CERT, a project of the Federal Office for Security in IT, posted last Friday.
The recommendation is in reaction to a vulnerability disclosed by Russian researcher Evgeny Legerov, which as since been confirmed by Mozilla.
Mozilla plans to patch Firefox 3.6 by March 30 at the latest. In the meantime, there's now a beta version of 3.6.2 available, which reportedly does include the patch in question.
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gendoikari1
March 23, 2010 at 2:21pm
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igoka
March 23, 2010 at 9:44am
I don't get it . Does it mean that until goverment aproval nobody in Germany can use it ? Speaking about democracy there.
bpstone
March 23, 2010 at 12:29pm
No, they think the browser's vulnerable to attacks. Germany doesn't want its citizens getting bugged, so they won't allow their people to have it until the problem is fixed or till something better is released. Germany’s higher authority isn’t saying you can’t own Firefox entirely or anything that bizarre. Think of it as, "Big Brother is watching out for you!" lol (^_>^)
SEALBoy
March 23, 2010 at 6:12am
I don't understand. The non-beta 3.6.2 has been out since yesterday: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
ragex
March 23, 2010 at 6:11am
3.6.2 Was released today. Germans can breath a collective sigh of relief! ;)
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