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[profman]

Firefox 3.0.16 is now being offered to users of the 3.0.x branch.

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Security Advisories: fixed

Fixed in Firefox 3.0.16

MFSA 2009-71 GeckoActiveXObject exception messages can be used to enumerate installed COM objects
MFSA 2009-70 Privilege escalation via chrome window.opener
MFSA 2009-69 Location bar spoofing vulnerabilities
MFSA 2009-68 NTLM reflection vulnerability
MFSA 2009-65 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.6/ 1.9.0.16)

Note that support for the 3.0.x branch expires in January of 2010 and users should plan on switching to the more up-to-date 3.5.x branch.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[profman]

[sdp=99096]Firefox 3.0.17 has now been released.[/sdp] Some of the links above now point to this later version instead of 3.0.16.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.16) Gecko/2009120208 Firefox/3.0.16 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[Fulvio]

They, surely, make it difficult! After fumbling around for several minutes I was able to download 3.0.17

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100102 Shiretoko/3.5.8pre

[J-M]

What are the main reasons to use 3.0.x series still, BTW?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

[Fulvio]

What are the main reasons to use 3.0.x series still, BTW?

I had found that 3.0.x was, contrary to reports from the Mozilla people, faster than 3.5.x.
The latter, also, was using more resources, no problem for most, but some problem for me.
And, finally, I did not have to hunt around for compatible addons. But, I had given up on 3.0.x, over one week ago.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100117 Shiretoko/3.5.8pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[profman]

What are the main reasons to use 3.0.x series still, BTW?

I tend to stick with a good branch as long as it is being updated. Once updates stop, I'll consider moving to the next branch if there are no complaints about the new branch.

The 3.0.x branch was the last branch to use an HTML file to store the bookmarks. An HTML file meant that some free bookmark management tools could be used. The new format in the 3.5x branch and above is not HTML, and those bookmark tools did not work.

I recently updated my main computer to the the 3.5x branch and do not see any terrific improvements, although I do not consider the 3.5x branch "bad."

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)