Firefox & Greasemonkey...Oh, crap!

Once again thanks to Eric Larson (of emlarson) for pointing out a mistake or error in my judgement. According to Eric and eWeek there is a new security hole in Firefox that makes it unsafe to install extensions (like greasemonkey) and to run javascripts (like greasemonkey does). So don't use Greasemonkey as I mention below. And though I didn't imply it, don't use Firefox, because it is more secure then IE. Firefox like IE has security issues and the more people that use it give more reason to find and exploit these issues.


When the dust settles or if you are adventours and feel comfortable trying it anyway...

Ok, if you aren't using Firefox for your Internet browsing yet, my question is why?

If you need another reason, here you go greasemonkey . With the greasemonkey extension for Firefox you can run DHTML (scripts) on other web sites. The coolest one I have seen so far, but I just started looking was the Amazon price comparassion from book burro:

overstimulate | Greasemonkey - Book Burro - find cheap books

Thanks to Geek News Central for mentioning greasemonkey and linking to it.