Netscape 8 Goes From Zero Bugs To 41 In Just Hours

We've heard from AOL about the security issues. Updating to Netscape 8.0.1 makes it as safe as Firefox 1.0.4. Murdok has learned more about the rampant bugfest in Netscape 8. A spokesperson from AOL provided these details: Said Andrew Weinstein: "The reason for the update was that we had been misinformed by an external security vendor we had retained that the Firefox 1.0.3 security issues did not affect us. "Within hours of discovering that the vendor was not accurate yesterday, however, we addressed those issues and posted an updated version of the browser. We will always take immediate action to protect our users from security threats." Mr. Weinstein also noted that the updated version of Netscape fixed 3 issues instead of 41 that were not already resolved in the earlier version. So it sounds like a bit of miscommunication, understandable, but one that probably should have been avoided and likely will be in the future. ****** Netscape claimed its trust features would mitigate the potential for phishing scams, which utilize cross-site scripting. But it appears the engineers missed a few bugs. Forty-one of them as of this morning were listed on here