Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to security issues

I recommend removing the Adobe Acrobat plugin from FireFox. Just last night while visiting a trusted site, it tried to launch an exploited Adobe Acrobat file. The file was served from a 3rd party ad site that had been hacked. Dangerous.

Very good advice. Also, if you do use adobe, make sure you are fully updated (9.3.1). The 9.3.0 libtiff exploit is available via metasploit:

http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/fileformat...

Adobe themselves also need to update, since if you go download from their website, they'll give you 9.3.0:

http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3/enu...

Firefox was not immediately available for comment.

... Hopefully the non-sentient Internet browser will have something to say for its self a bit later on.

A government office which warns when widely used browsers have vulnerabilities – good idea or bad idea? I’m not really all that sure about that.

(But here’s a idea for you: find a way to keep the 4+ browsers I have installed in sync so that I can switch at a moments notice without any problems.)

http://www.xmarks.com/ comes in quite handy for this purpose. No Opera support, though. :/