Mozilla promises fix for second minor Firefox 2.0 bug
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Mozilla promises fix for second minor Firefox 2.0 bug
But users shouldn't have any major problems caused by the flaw
A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter much of a problem in the meantime, a Mozilla Corp. official said today.
The browser will crash if it visits a Web page that been intentionally coded with JavaScript in such a way as to target the bug, said Tristan Nitot, director of European operations at Mozilla.
"It's very unlikely that anyone would have put a similar page on any ordinary Web page," so users should not be affected, Nitot said.
The problem can't be used to steal data from a computer, he said.
It's the second bug found in Firefox 2.0 since its release last week. The first bug also causes the browser to hang or crash when a very large document is loaded into an inline frame -- an HTML element -- using JavaScript.
The new bug will eventually be fixed. "We will fix it because we need reliability," Nitot said, adding that no timetable has been set.
Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Corp.'s rival Internet Explorer 7 Web browser, both of which debuted within a week of one another, are under close scrutiny by security analysts.