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Crockett
09-09-2005, 09:22 PM
https://addons.mozilla.org/messages/307259.html

On September 6 a security vulnerability affecting all versions of Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was reported to Mozilla by Tom Ferris and on September 8th was publicly disclosed.

On September 9, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling IDN in the browser. The fix is either a manual configuration change or a small download which will make this configuration change for the user.

EDIT...this does the same manual edit that Elwood mentioned in his thread, but does it for you.

mottsie
09-09-2005, 10:00 PM
got it ! Thanks, Crockett

ShadowThomas
09-09-2005, 11:37 PM
Thanks.

Gruss
09-10-2005, 06:58 AM
https://addons.mozilla.org/messages/307259.html
EDIT...this does the same manual edit that Elwood mentioned in his thread, but does it for you.

Thanks Crockett, as the manual about.config never does anything in my F/F. I guess I don't have a profile made, but then I don't need one either. George. :)