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Next Firefox will shrug off Flash crashes
THE FIRST BETA of Firefox 3.6.4 has technology aimed at stopping Flash and other plugins from crashing the browser, by running in a different process.
Previewed in the 'Lorentz' beta release, it provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight plugins, which often leaves users fuming.
It's another first step to seeing all Firefox users get the same benefits, where a crash in a plugin will leave Firefox still running, a crash report submittable, and an option to reload the page again.
In other browser news, the next version of Google Chrome will also see security fixes, while Microsoft announced that it will schedule an additional update to its IE XSS Filter, which makes Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerabilities much more difficult to exploit.
Software developer Giorgio Maone has been pretty vocal in his disapproval of Microsoft calling the XSS Filter a 'new type of defence', whereas NoScript, a Firefox introduction that blocks malicious scripts, came first.
He said that the main XSS filter engineer for Microsoft, David Ross was in error by implying that it was 'important to use Firefox with NoScript'. µ
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they'll be rolling the dice even past this date (but had they not got used to?). MS defense for IE will address only known threats, noscript is much more flexible tool. on the bright side - XSS filter is dumbed down/automated tool for masses.
but why would anyone still use IE if this thing is no longer necessary even for windows update - masochism?
To learn that you're promised potection in June from what Firefox noscript users have been for at least two years now. You roll the dice on every site you visit until then.