This is something that all fox users should be aware of, and make sure they update.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/03/03/m....ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixes a flaw that made users vulnerable to online fraud.

The flaw allowed fraudsters to set up fake Web sites with names indistinguishable from legitimate companies.

It worked because, to a Firefox user, a Web address with one Cyrillic letter in place of the Latin-script letters used in English could look indistinguishable from an address written completely in Latin script. For instance, a Cyrillic "a" looks just like the Latin "a," but if used in a Web address, it will send the surfer to a different site.

Firefox 1.0.1, released last week, shows Web addresses with foreign scripts in code, preceded by the letters "xn." So "paypal.com" with a Cyrillic "a" becomes "xn--pypal-4ve.com."

This means that perfectly legitimate Web sites with names in, say, Latvian, will display with the "xn" prefix.

The Mozilla Foundation, which distributes the browser, said the change is temporary, but a long-term solution requires industry cooperation.

The latest "beta" version of the Opera browser, also released last week, makes a similar change. It displays Web addresses in the original script only if they are registered in countries that Opera considers to have proper controls against scam addresses.

Web addresses in foreign scripts do not work in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer without installing a special

 

thanks a bunch for the heads updownloading the "new improved" version right now. You are obviously a firefox user so maybe you can help me out, apparently my yahoo messenger dosent agree with firefox. when my messenger is on forefox freaks out. it closes pages and freezes up and stuff. messenger works fone with explorer but not with forefox. forefox works fine on its own and i like it but i would also like to use my messenger service with it as well. maybe this new browser will fix it.

 

For any browser, MS or otherwise, you should not load any language fonts other then the one for your native language unless you are multi-lingula and use it frequently.

 

Your Welcome But I have not been converted .......Yet
But I know that alot of others here use it, so I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of a possible giitch. Hopefully someone else will step in to help out. After all this is FTE