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Security flaw tarnishes Firefox download record
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 19 - 06 - 2008


The new version of the Firefox browser was
downloaded over 8 million times in its first 24 hours of release in
what organizers claimed was a world record, according to dpa.
But the success was tempered by reports from a software security
company that Firefox 3.0 contained a serious security flaw that
potentially lets an attacker take over a PC if a user clicks on a
booby-trapped link.
According to the Mozilla foundation that released the new browser,
the software was downloaded 8.3 million times in its first 24 hours
of release starting on Tuesday morning.
The downloads were so popular that they initially crashed the
servers running the operation. At their busiest, the servers were
handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute and within five hours
had surpassed the initial daily download of 1.6 million set by
Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.
DV Labs/Tipping Point did not release details of the security flaw
except to Mozilla, but news of the glitch was damaging to the browser
which had claimed to be much more secure that the previous version,
and than its larger rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Firefox 3.0 offers faster web browsing than the previous versions,
along with lower memory use and nifty features like a built-in search
application that automatically combs your web history to find sites
that you have visited that contain words that you type in the address
bar.
Tech critics greeted the new browser and recommended users to
adopt it.
"Firefox 3 is the best Web browser I've ever seen. And I've
been using the Web since before there were Web browsers," said
ComputerWorld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Firefox has been rapidly attracting users since its 2004 launch
and now has approximately 18 per cent of the market, compared to the
72 per cent share enjoyed by Internet Explorer which has the
advantage of being pre-installed on the vast majority of computers.
Firefox is mainly downloaded by individual users and as of
February 2008 it had been downloaded over 500 million times. However
since one user may download the software several times, the best
estimate for regular Firefox users is around 140 million.


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