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Did We Get Suckered by Firefox 3?

Posted on June 21, 2008

Everyone likes something shiny and new so it didn t come as much surprise to see eight million people download Firefox 3 - spurred on by a brilliant campaign by Mozilla to break a world record for downloads in a single day.While Firefox is becoming more popular, the reality is people who enthusiastically downloaded as soon as it was released into the wild may have been suckered. Among the issues is a security problem discovered by Tipping Point DVLabs that Mozilla will have to plug soon with a 3.0.1 release. As well, many people who downloaded Firefox 3 were surprised to discover that some o...

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