Not lovely...

Well, its not often that I have had a bad word to say about Mozilla Firefox. However, for the second time in a week, I now do.

I have been aware of issues with the Mozilla implementation of eval for some time, but the latest exposure was news to me and seemingly many others.

Full details can be found here. There is no reliable way round that I can find as yet so I will continue along the assumption that in the JavaScript world, nothing is safe.

I will still use a module pattern (as I have discussed before in a previous post) and I will still call "private" members private. I will also continue to discourage the use of evil eval.

Douglas Crockford has a few things to say about Firefox in general and had his own comments about this latest issue.

I am deeply disappointed frankly. Firefox 3 ruined my week last week (well, truthfully, Firebug was as much to blame) and now this. I suppose its nice to see that other browser vendors make mistakes!