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Story: Firefox flaw sparks a fiery debate

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Seems to me someone would have to not notice that they were taken to a spoofed site in the first place, which is easy to spot. Only after that, and when they've elected to download the file, could the location of the file be faked. So it's pretty unlikely that anyone would be taken in by it. That said, it's still a bug in the software that needs to be fixed.

I'm glad this article popped up because it shows that people *are* analysing Firefox for vulnerabilities. It needs to be shown that when the two browsers are placed on equal footing Firefox wipes, cleans and polishes the floor with IE.

The fact is since release 1 of Firefox came out there have been about 2 problems, one of which was actually a Windows problem anyway and this one, which is so minor that people argue whether it's actually a flaw or not. Whereas IE has had at least 4 in the same period, and that's with Windows XP SP2 ("with advanced security technologies" - hahahahahaaa).

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