mozillaZine.orgYour Source for Daily Mozilla News and AdvocacyMozilla Firefox 3.0.1 Released- July 19, 2008 The first minor update to Mozilla Firefox 3 has been released. Firefox 3.0.1 fixes three critical security vulnerabilities, improves stability and resolves a handful of other small bugs. The security fixes are detailed in the Firefox 3.0.1 section of the Security Advisories for Firefox 3.0 page. Two of the issues &8212; one related to how Firefox handles command-line URLs to open multiple tabs and another allowing remote code execution by overflowing a CSS reference counter &8212; were..http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24603 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released- July 19, 2008 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 was released this week. The stability and security update to Firefox 2 fixes two security bugs, which are detailed in the Firefox 2.0.0.16 section of the Security Advisories for Firefox 2.0 page. Both are rated Critical, the highest of the four ratings. One flaw is related to how Firefox handles command-line URLs to open multiple tabs and allows an attacker to open potentially malicious URLs in Firefox from another application. One variant of this attack...http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24602 Mozilla Firefox 3 Download Day Sets Official Guinness World Record- July 19, 2008 The official Mozilla Blog has confirmation that Mozilla Firefox 3 now holds the official Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in twenty-four hours. On Download Day, there were 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3 between 6:16pm UTCGMT on Tuesday 17th June 2008 and 6:16pm UTCGMT on Wednesday 17th June 2008. Gareth Deaves, Records Manager for Internet and Technology at Guinness World Records, presented the official Guinness World Record certificate to Mozilla...http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24601 |