Firefox 3.0.12 patches five critical issues

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Firefox 3.0.12 patches five critical issues

Postby Antony » Wed 22 Jul, 2009 5:26 am

Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3.0.12, an update to the open-source browser that fixes five critical security vulnerabilities and fixes a handful of other bugs.

Firefox 3.0.12 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.11:

Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Fixed an issue introduced in Firefox 3.0.11, where Firefox would occasionally freeze when accessing the Java plug-in on Windows XP. (bug 498132)
Fixed an issue introduced in Firefox 3.0.11, where Firefox would not save data properly when a user stored their home directory on a remote location using AFP. (bug 497792)
On Mac OS X, fixed an issue where certain AppleScripts failed to return the proper information. (bug 427448)
See the Firefox 3.0.11 release notes for changes in previous releases.



Mozilla is trying to move people to the newer Firefox 3.5, which offers faster JavaScript program execution, new privacy features, and a handful of technologies geared for more powerful Web applications.

(source: Cnet News.com)
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Postby Fulvio » Wed 22 Jul, 2009 5:32 pm

The incremental update of 2.1Mb took two attempts to work.
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Postby J-M » Thu 30 Jul, 2009 10:24 am

Those vulnerabilities are being covered at
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-v ... fox30.html

and

http://secunia.com/advisories/35914/
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