Sunday, November 5

Second Firefox 2.0 bug

Mozilla pledges to fix Firefox 2.0 bug


Minor bug found in browser shouldn't cause many problems in meantime, Mozilla says.

A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter much of a problem in the mean time, a Mozilla official said Thursday.

The browser will crash if it visits a Web page that been intentionally coded with JavaScript in such a way as to target the bug, said Tristan Nitot, director of European operations for Mozilla.

"It's very unlikely that anyone would have put a similar page on any ordinary Web page," so users shouldn't be affected, Nitot said.

The problem can't be used to steal data from a computer, he added.

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