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Security Vulnerability in Firefox, not.

Reports of a “Serious Vulnerability in Firefox 2.0.0.12“ are greatly exaggerated, to say the least.

It seems that someone discovered the “view source” feature, that allows you to see the source code of Firefox from within Firefox (handy for developers) and decided to claim that it could be used to discover private information. It can’t. The only files you can see are, yes, the files in the Firefox application directory, which is what you downloaded from the interwebs when you installed Firefox.

Your stored passwords and cookies and other cruft are stored separately, and are not accessible using this technique.