James Delahunty
13 Jul 2005 8:35
Following the discovery lately of several security vulnerabilities, Mozilla's next generation open source web browser, Firefox, has been updated to v1.0.5 and all Firefox users are being urged to update now. Along with the security fixes, the update also promises better stability. According to Mozilla, nine security bugs in total were targeted in this update. Secunia, a security notification service has rated the update as "highly critical".
Firefox has been the receiver of a lot of praise since it was released. It quickly became a challenger to the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, even managing to take a big portion of IE's users. It has been recommended by experts as a replacement for IE as it falls victim to much less spyware problems and is just as easy to use. Firefox's features include a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, better security and privacy options, hassle-free download manager and much, much more.
The Mozilla Foundation has also promised it will release a related set of patches for its email client, Thunderbird.
You can download Firefox v1.0.5 from: http://www.filepedia.com/network_software/web_browsers/firefox.cfm
Sources:
Mozilla
The Register