FireFox Just Failed Test

[KingCobra]

You test your browser and see if it fails too. If it passes you will see

The page cannot be displayed

Code:

http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_idn_spoofing_test/

I just tested using

FAILED

Quote:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

PASSED

Quote:

IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp

Please post your results below.

Edit - Of course, for those that don't already know you can always avoid the spoofing problem by never trusting links. Always hand type your trusted web address in the address bar. Still FireFox has an over all security rating of moderately critical with 8 Secunia Advisories vs. IE as highly critical with 77 Secunia advisories.

[Alpine]

i dn't use firefox !!

[Bads]

If you talk about the "paypal" test, I just pass the test with IE6 No problem

[PcDad]

Mozilla....failed

IE6 sp2...passed

[jakesnake]

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

FAILED !

but thx for the heads up Sony

[KingCobra]

Remember though IE has 77 currently known holes and FireFox has only 8, one of these being the spoofing problem.

[robinwilson16]

I quite like Firefox but it also has problems displaying certain webpages, i.e. Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint (maybe MS did this on purpose!)

[~*McoreD*~]

After getting ADSL, I am back to IE6 too. Firefox felt slower.

And I dont personally like their idea trying to promote Thunderbird dissing Outlook. I can soft of support their Firefox > IE arguement but cannot stand Thunderbird > Outlook opinion. Thunderbird is still no where near Outlook.

Here is a bit of insight to IE. It's well written in a neutral POV.
http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/history.html


Result:
You are vulnerable, if a new window is opened displaying a Secunia page, but the address bar is displaying http://www.paypal.com/.

A new window did open. But didn't display a Secunia page. The address bar is displaying http://www.paypаl.com/ but the title is Invalid syntax error. So where am I?

[PCTech]

After reinstalling the OS and doing all the updates, i'm using IE6.0 SP2 now, and it passed! however I am going to be going to firefox 1.0 with the spoofstix extension today! Thanks for the heads up!

~PCTech

also thanks for the extension to prevent this its very helpful!

[saratogaSiX]

Thxs for the extension tip. did'nt know that one is avail.