Dear Firefox, You Have Non-Windows Users Too
A medium-large bit of news this week is a potentially serious exploit in the shiny new freshly-released Firefox 3.5, which was released, discovered, and fixed nearly all at the same time.
Another open source security success story!
Except for one thing-- of all the news stories I read, and the announcement on Security Focus, and the announcement on the Mozilla Security Blog itself, none of them bothered to report if this dastardly flaw affects Linux, Mac, and Windows, or just Windows, which naturally is the default assumption. Yo Firefox persons-- you do know it is a cross-platform application, don't you?
So I spent a good part of my morning reading and calling people, and finally unearthed this little nugget buried in the comments on the Mozilla security blog:
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