On June 18, July 10, a FireFox-IE dependency vulnerability was revealed. Secunia rated it as "very dangerous" and IE opened a special firefoxurl: // when identifying the handle, it calls FireFox to execute all programs. At that time, Mozilla security blog announced that it would not quit the patch for this problem. HoweverOn July 6, July 18, FireFox 2.0.0.5 was released. users who were careful discovered that Mozilla had quietly fixed this vulnerability. Later, Mozilla mentioned this amendment in its update description.
At the same time, Mozilla also explained that "this is a vulnerability that can be produced together with IE". "This is indeed a FireFox issue and has been fixed in 2.0.0.5. We are also studying how to better protect user security ."
Earlier, Microsoft's security staff also expressed their opinions on this:
"Well Window, those who sit in a glass house shoshould not be throwing stones ."