Firefox upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability

"The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters"

"Firefox 16 itself fixed 14 vulnerabilities in version 15, including 11 that could allow attackers to install software without any user interaction beyond normal browsing."

Sounds like 16 is still less dangerous than the older version. Why are they telling people to downgrade?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-ol...

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo...

Poor Firefox. They do the right thing, and end up with a #1 Most Read on BBC News telling people that "Security fear sees Firefox pulled"

Oh fuck, I need to follow instructions to downgrade? FFS. Nah, I don't care enough to downgrade.

20:24 UK time, Firefox updated to 16.0.1

Users had to manually upgrade to be using version 16 anyhow ... it was not yet set up for automatic updates.

A huge amount of news over nothing.

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.