Mozilla rereleases Firefox 16 after fixing critical flaw
Mozilla released a new version of Firefox today, one day after yanking the Web browser to address security flaws.
Firefox 16 was pulled off Mozilla’s installer page yesterday, just one day after its release, to fix a vulnerability that could have allowed a malicious site to identify which Web sites a user had visited, said Michael Coates, Mozilla’s director of Security Assurance. The flaw was publicly disclosed yesterday by security researcher Gareth Heyes, who published proof-of-concept code to demonstrate the vulnerability.
Though Mozilla said it had no evidence that the vulnerability…
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