isitreal - 4:08 am on Jul 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

You don't need to install 0.9.2 apparently for that fix, it's a tiny download (1 kB) here [update.mozilla.org].

Apparently only affects Windows XP, not Windows XP SP2 though.

All it does is shut off the ability to run 'shell:', which I guess Mozilla had thought about turning off by default but left on for some reason. Happily not a structural flaw or anything as far as I can see.

To see if your browser is properly patched, you can visit this page [mccanless.us], if you only see the one link it's patched, if you see several, it's not.

These are good things to work out before the 1.0 release I think, since security is one of the questions driving this thing, it's good to see this kind of testing happening, also nice to see how simple the fix is.

Vkaryl: I have to also agree, Opera 7 is the first Opera that I would have even remotely considered paying for, Opera 3-6 were to me more like beta products, way too many glitches and errors, I don't understand what makes them think it's worth $39 personally, $20, yes, but $39? They need new marketing people, somebody who can do the math, let's see, 3 times (or more, I'd suspect) more sales at half the price, hmmmm... the ads, always an annoying strategy, I never use adware of any type for any reason, it's a pretty sure guarantee that I won't use a product to make it adware.

[edited by: isitreal at 4:19 am (utc) on July 9, 2004]