Firefox

Firefox 7.0.1 released

September 30, 2011

Close on the heels of Firefox 7.0 Mozilla releases 7.0.1 There was an issue with Firefox 7 that may have caused some or all of your add-ons to be hidden. We have released an update to Firefox that fixes this issue and restores any hidden add-ons. Note: There is a separate issue where add-ons are [...]

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Firefox and Thunderbird 7.0 released

September 28, 2011

Firefox 7 brings several changes plus six critical and two moderate security fixes. MFSA 2011-45 Inferring Keystrokes from motion data MFSA 2011-44 Use after free reading OGG headers MFSA 2011-43 loadSubScript unwraps XPCNativeWrapper scope parameter MFSA 2011-42 Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library MFSA 2011-41 Potentially exploitable WebGL crashes MFSA 2011-40 Code [...]

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Firefox and Thunderbird 6.0.2 released

September 7, 2011

Additional protection against fraudulent DigiNotar certificates. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/6.0.2/releasenotes/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/6.0.2/releasenotes/ If you do not receive an update notice when using the applications, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Download Firefox 6.0.2 https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html Download Thunderbird 6.0.2 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

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Firefox and Thunderbird 6.0.1 released

August 31, 2011

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/6.0.1/releasenotes/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/6.0.1/releasenotes/ If you do not receive an update notice when using the applications, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Mozilla addons site targeted in same attack that hit Google “In the absence of a full account of mis-issued certificates from DigiNotar, the Mozilla team moved quickly to remove DigiNotar from our root [...]

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Firefox and Thunderbird 6 are out

August 17, 2011

https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/6.0/releasenotes/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/6.0/releasenotes/ If you do not receive an update notice when using the applications, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Download Firefox 6.0 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html Download Thunderbird 6.0 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/17/firefox-6-out-several-critical-security-fixes/?

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Firefox 6.0 on its way

August 15, 2011

Tuesday will see the release of Firefox 6.0 eight weeks after the release of 5.0 and less than 5 months after the release of 4.0. It’s all Google’s fault. Version 1 of Chrome released on December 11, 2008. Here we are, less than 1,000 days later, with version 13 as the stable release. Of course [...]

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Firefox 4.0.1 released

April 29, 2011

Firefox 4.0.1 fixes several security and stability issues. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0/releasenotes/ MFSA 2011-18 XSLT generate-id() function heap address leak MFSA 2011-17 WebGLES vulnerabilities MFSA 2011-12 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:2.0.1/ 1.9.2.17/ 1.9.1.19) http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox40.html#firefox4.0.1 If you do not receive an update notice when using the application, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Firefox 4.0.1 Manual Download

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Mozilla outs lethargic add-ons

April 6, 2011

One I’d already disabled is listed in the top two, 74% slowdown. Add-ons provide many useful features and functions, but they can also cause Firefox to become slower. Some add-ons can even slow Firefox to a crawl and make it difficult to use for regular web browsing. If you think add-ons might be the reason [...]

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Firefox 4 released

March 22, 2011

If you do not receive an update notice when using the application, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Firefox 4.0 Manual Download Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast, Sleek and Customizable Browsing Experience to More Than 400 Million Users Worldwide http://blog.mozilla.com/ What’s New And Awesome In Firefox 4 One of the [...]

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Firefox 3.6.15 Released

March 4, 2011

Firefox 3.6.15 fixes an issue where some Java applets would fail to load in Firefox 3.6.14 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.15/releasenotes/ If you do not receive an update notice when using the application, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Firefox Manual Download

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