Yesterday Mozilla took the unprecedented step of pulling down a version of Firefox and warning those who had already installed it to stop using the browser. The move came after a rather bad security flaw was found in the software that would allow a malicious site to potentially be able to determine which websites users had visited and obtain access to the URL or URL parameters.
The company quickly pushed a fix for the Android version of the web browser, but took until today to issue a similar patch for the Windows version of Firefox. Mozilla has now made Firefox version 16.01 available for download and those who have the browser installed should receive an automatic update upon the next launch.
While it was perhaps a bit of an embarrassing escapade, the company did work fast to fix the issue. The flaw was less of an actual security threat and more of a privacy concern, but it was an issue that still needed to be addressed quickly. You can head over to Mozilla to grab the update if you didn’t receive it automatically.