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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

Security Update for Firefox

The DSL Reports Secruity forum reports this morning that «A recent bug has been found in Firefox 0.x versions that could be potentially exploited; it allows pages to run executables on windows via a link.»

Fortunately the fix is easy. Here are the steps to fix the problem:

  • Type about:config in the address bar.

  • Find «network.protocol-handler.external.shell»

  • If the value «network.protocol-handler.external.shell» isn't listed (List is alphabetically ordered by default), you can manually add it by right clicking (in the about:config window), New -> Boolean. Put in the name as stated, and set the value to false.

  • Change the value by double clicking, and changing the value to false.

  • Save what you were doing (if anything) in Firefox, and restart it.



    • That should take care of the problem.

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