According to “Why Silent Updates Boost Security” (download PDF), 97% of Chrome users were running the latest version of the browser within 21 days of the last update’s release. By comparison, 85% of Firefox users were up-to-date in the same span, while only 53% Safari users could say the same.
Security Advisories Fixed in Firefox 3.6.8: MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix From http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html
Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.
Firefox 3.6.4 has been released with crash protection for Adobe’s Flash Player, Apple ‘s QuickTime and Microsoft ‘s Silverlight plug-ins, and is available only in Firefox for Windows and Linux . Mozilla is still working on the “out of process plug-ins,” or OOPP feature, for the Mac version. The version also patches nine vulnerabilities, six [...]
Firefox 3.5.10 has been released – it patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.
Mozilla yesterday released a beta version of the Firefox 3.6 browser to fix several stability and security issues. Firefox 3.6.2 has been released to Mozilla’s beta tester community, and includes several bug fixes such as crashes when using Adobe’s ClickMap add-on. Other problems reported by some users, such as there being no prompt to update [...]
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers’ Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced scripting functionality that lets site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread to reduce the performance hit on Firefox’s user interface. The fixes are already in the 3.6 [...]
Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows [...]
What’s New in Firefox 3.0.17 Firefox 3.0.17 fixes the following issue: Fixed a problem with how updates were being presented to users. See the Firefox 3.0.16 release notes for changes in previous releases. See the complete list of bugs fixed.
What’s New in Firefox 3.5.7 Firefox 3.5.7 fixes the following issues: Fixed a common stability issue. Fixed a problem with how updates were being presented to users. Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.6 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.
Beta 5 of Firefox 3.6 has now been released. Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run [...]
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