Mozilla Logs 8 Million-plus Firefox 3 Downloads

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Mozilla hit the world record mark and then some when it logged 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in a single day. Unfortunately, the milestone was marred slightly when a critical flaw was found five hours after the new browser was launched.

Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,349,074 times between 2:16 p.m. ET Tuesday and 2:16 p.m. ET Wednesday—more Firefox downloads than the company has ever had in one day, according to a Mozilla Web site tracking the browser’s first-day download process.
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Nobody's perfect. Besides, you know its being worked on, unlike certain other browsers that don't get patched very often, or very quickly.
 
Steve said:
Mozilla hit the world record mark and then some when it logged 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in a single day. Unfortunately, the milestone was marred slightly when a critical flaw was found five hours after the new browser was launched.
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except for the fact that this flaw was for FF2 as well....I'd like to ask that news posts like this seem not so negative? I mean they have done something great here, and it seems like your just chucking eggs at their face.

And to the above poster, i agree, they are in the process and have been since finding out, working on a solution.
 
Yeah I don't know why the media did that either. The flaw was actually around since Firefox 2.0 was out but they just decided to tack Firefox 3 to all the headlines about the flaw.
 
my "damn" above was an "damn, that's impressive" damn, not a "damn, almost made it" damn.... sorry for the confusion
 
Max Power said:
Er, are you sure about that?
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" Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability

* By Zero Day Initiative
* Wed 18 Jun 2008 14:58pm
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* Link

A number of people who monitor our Zero Day Initiative's Upcoming Advisories page noticed yesterday that we reported a vulnerability to Mozilla (ZDI-CAN-349). Taking into account the coincidental timing of the Firefox 3.0 release, many are asking us if this is the first reported critical vulnerability in the latest version of the popular open source browser.

What we can confirm is that about five hours after the official release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17th, our Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x. We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it from the researcher, then promptly reported the vulnerability to the Mozilla security team shortly after. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Not unlike most browser based vulnerabilities that we see these days, user interaction is required such as clicking on a link in email or visiting a malicious web page.

While Mozilla is working on a fix, we wont be divulging anything else until a patch is available, adhering to our vulnerability disclosure policy. Once the issue is patched, we'll be publishing an advisory here. Working with Mozilla on past security issues, we've found them to have a good track record and expect a reasonable turnaround on this issue as well.

For more information on the Zero Day Initiative, you can read an intro.



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Steve said:
Mozilla hit the world record mark and then some when it logged 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in a single day. Unfortunately, the milestone was marred slightly when a critical flaw was found five hours after the new browser was launched.
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They didnt "Hit" the record mark as there was no previous record to hit. It should read they "set" the record mark
 
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