Why is Firefox STILL allowing website drive by browser hijacking by LAME "Your broswer has been blocked" exploit-NO other malware-just clicked the wrong link.
This silly ass "window-won't-close-just-keeps-relaunching" exploit is so ancient it has whiskers.
Incredibly embarrassed that this happened to my friend, since I was the one that encouraged him to use Firefox in the first place.
... and NO he didn't install any malicious .EXE -or- Pluggins -or- Extensions, just clicked the wrong link in trying to cancel a pop-up that Firefox should never have allowed in the first place.
I say this because, from reading this Forum for YEARS now, this is generally the point where the totally lame "Well there well always be ways to "human engineer" these kinds of exploits..." excuses start, so let's not even go there.
Instead of resisting this attack, Firefox makes it WORSE, because if you open task manager and kill Firefox, then Firefox sees that as a CRASH, and tries to coverer it's tracks by automatically re-launching the previous session (instead of the PROPER behavior, which would be to load the standard user-prompted selective-restore page).
Frankly, as I mentioned above, this is embarrassingly BAD...
Just try to close a pop-up window (that shouldn't have 'popped up' in the first place) and your lame-o broswer locks up and helps some con-man try to scam you for $500.
PATHETIC. This kind of thing is the reason I dumped MS Explorer long ago.
I have been a strong Firefox supporter since the very beginning, so I'm not trying to raise any hackles here, but finding boneheaded serious security vulnerabilities like this, while Firefox developers are wasting time making the the 'new' Firefox interface more like the piece-of-garbage Windows 8 Explorer interface (which I DESPISE), has caused me to loose faith in Mozilla, so can someone suggest some alternatives other than Firefox and Chrome?
Seriously, I'm not looking to fight about it, run your project any way you want, but some help in picking an alternative browser that I can trust would be greatly appreciated.
''richsopn [[#answer-714480|said]]''
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What's this have to do with Mozilla? - because Canonical's lack of updates should be no problem, right? - Hey just click that little 'auto updates' button under 'advanced options' on your Windows PC's right? -- Oh, sorry Linux users, despite the Linux roots of many of Mozilla's developers, and the many critical Linux spawned tools they use daily to create Firefox, Mozilla apparently feels Linux users are SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WHO ARE JUST NOT WORTH SUPPORTING WITH DIRECT UPDATES LIKE THEY PROVIDE FOR PC USERS.
Support they get from Canonical '''and Mozilla''' -> ZERO
... and I'm not talking about some guy who runs a geeky, totally insecure 'non-official repository' I'm talking about a simple check-box that I can click, and continue to get updates directly from Mozilla.
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The build you have is a third-party build and not one provided by Mozilla and Mozilla does not provide updates for third-party builds they did not well build.
Mozilla does support Linux and still strongly do as they have both 32-bit and 64-bit builds including for Release. www.mozilla.org/firefox/all
They get Firefox updates just like on Windows as long as the Firefox has red/write permissions as a easy way around for the user is to have it in /home
Since you are using a five year old version of Ubuntu you need to meet minimum package requirements at least. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/37.0.1/system-requirements/
Heck Mozilla supports Linux and Mac OSX better when it comes to 64-bit Firefox as there were 64-bit Releases for Linux and Mac ever since Firefox 4.0 while for Windows the first Win64 Release ''may'' be finally at Firefox 38.0
If you prefer say Gnome 2 and want to stay away from say Gnome 3 and Unity in newer Linux distros then look into say Xfce as it is both light and can look very much like Gnome 2 and can use gtk2 themes.
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