Pride of Vindication
I feel vindicated. This is a follow on to my previous post FireFaux earlier, dealing with Firefox 3 on OS X crashing repeated and constantly. I offer up the OS X security update from Tuesday of this week
About the security content of Security Update 2008-008 / Mac OS X v10.5.6. In particular I note: "Seven of the updates included in this patch bundle fix flaws for the Mac version of Adobe's Flash player, flaws that Adobe patched last month in two separate releases"
Apple Patches 21 Security Flaws - Security Fix. As well Firefox had security update 3.0.5 pushed out yesterday
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 Release Notes. I had the opinion that since the Mozilla people seemed to have turned their attention to FF 3.1 that we wouldn't see a 3.0.5 even though I needed it.
Looking at the details of what was under the hood of 3.0.5 I find myself asking at what price vindication comes:
"Firefox 3.0.5 fixes a total of 11 flaws, six rated "critical,"...Among the most serious were a trio of vulnerabilities in the browser[base ']s layout and JavaScript engines, while others included XML binding and session restore bugs that could let hackers conduct cross-site scripting attacks, which are often used in sophisticated identity theft schemes."
Mozilla plugs 13 holes in Firefox, retires older 2.0 browser | Macworld.
This is the sort of thing my parser / javascript error reports were showing while it was misbehaving. Yikes maybe not crashing so much as crashed.
Beyond this I contend also with the sure sin of pride here. The pride of vindication. Is there even such a thing? Yes, Yes there is, Gertrude Stein had it apparently, Google says so
"pride of vindication" - Google Search. Therefore it must be true.
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