Yeah, firefox is really pissing me off. I know I must switch and I have tried many times, but I just can't do it :(

I dunno, I guess I'll try to switch again...

I've had enough of mozilla's antics and intend to switch to something that isn't google chrome as soon as possible.

Yeah if that part is true I don't see why Mozilla is suggesting downgrading to 15. I think I'll just avoid using Firefox until after the update is released.

I wish I could switch, but every time I feel worse off than I was. Opera, for example (which would be my next choice), does not support the drop down menu. And it has weird glitches, like inconsistent page rendering (the same page gets rendered differently upon each refresh) and getting me redirected to another site when I click the "edit post" button on this forum. Combine that with my disdain for Google, and I just don't see anywhere else to go. :(

Maybe because login information could be present in url parameters. Getting your accounts stolen would be worse than getting some malware installed via browsing.

Yeah, I am also having problems finding an alternate browser as I like FF. I will use Opera until the current vulnerability is dealt with.

You know, every time I have a problem with FF, I do use Opera. If it was open-sourced I would switch right now ...

I'll be running IE through WINE

Mozilla has released Firefox 16.0.1 in their FTP Server

As long as they're honest when things like this happen, and problems get fixed quickly, I'm not ready to dump them just yet.

I'd like to move away from using Firefox, but the good outweigh's the bad for me.

One reason I dont like using Firefox is because more and more people are using it, and I have this thought that when something becomes popular, its time for me to move on and find something less popular.

A few months ago a post I had started turned into a discussion of my own poor browser update habits, here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post4728263

Somehow, I feel vindicated... and still using FF 13 at the moment (except for my Slackware 14 install).

FF16 is insecure. that is why a 16.0.1 is out.
http://lwn.net/Articles/519422/
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/20...in-firefox-16/

At one point I used uzbl in an attempt to simplify things. Then, they had a massive security hole that would allow arbitrary remote code execution just by visiting a specially crafted web page. Their solution, since it was difficult to work around, was to disable core functionality of the browser. While I'm sure it's been fixed by now (this was a long time ago now), leaving a huge security hole in a product without enough of a team to fix the vulnerability in a timely manner made me wary of any small browser without a larger development team. That leaves me with a choice of a handful of browsers, and so all I can say, is that, while Firefox certainly does introduce vulnerabilities, at least they are fixed as fast as can be expected.

Firefox 16.01 is avaiable.