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[Ramona]

Firefox 2.0.0.8 has been released.

What's New in Firefox 2.0.0.8

Release Date: October 18, 2007

Security Update:
The following security issues were fixed.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Support:
Firefox 2.0.0.8 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins.

New Languages:
Official releases for Georgian (ka) and Romanian (ro) are now available. Beta release for Kurdish (ku) is also available for testing.

Download Firefox 2.0.0.8
Downloads for other systems & Languages
Release Notes

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

[J-M]

These seven security vulnerabiities have been rated as Highly Critical at Secunia's new security advisory.

Link:
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

This rating is level 4/5.

This new version is both security and stability release, says Mozilla Developer Center at
this document.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

[J-M]

In fact, Mozilla has announced eight vulnerabilities, i.e. MFSA 2007-29...MFSA 2007-36.

MFSA stands for Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

It appears that Secunia informs about this fix too:

NOTE: Additional fixes have been added to prevent the exploitation of a URI handling vulnerability in Microsoft Windows.

Only Windows systems are (were ) affected in this vulnerabiility.

Microsoft's technical clarification was released hereearlier.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7