(InfoWorld) - A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn"t encounter much of a problem in the mean time, a Mozilla official said Thursday.
The browser will crash if it visits a Web page that been intentionally coded with JavaScript in such a way as to target the bug, said Tristan Nitot, director of European operations for Mozilla.
"It"s very unlikely that anyone would have put a similar page on any ordinary Web page," so users shouldn"t be affected, Nitot said.
The problem can"t be used to steal data from a computer, he added.
It"s the second bug that"s been found in Firefox 2.0 since its release on Oct. 24. The first bug also causes the browser to hang or crash when a very large document is loaded into an iframe — an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) element — using JavaScript.
The new bug will eventually be [...]
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