Firefox 2.0.0.13 update now available
Posted by Percy Cabello on March 25th, 2008 • Tags:
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As expected, Mozilla has released a new update for Firefox. According to the release notes it basically consists of a number of security patches but no detail is currently available on Mozilla Security Advisories page.

Anyway, you can get it right now selecting Check for Updates… from the Help menu.

Firefox updates usually make firewalls suspicious, and you may need to update your settings to let Firefox work properly.

As a side note, I’ve been running Firefox 3 betas and nightlies for so long now that  Firefox 2 looks surprisingly unfamiliar and … old, these days. Despite recent claims, Firefox 3 is not ready yet and you should stick to Firefox 2 unless you don’t mind one or two mishaps.

But who am I kidding? According to latest stats, about 40% of Mozilla Links’ visitors are already using some Firefox 3 version!

Updated: Firefox 2.0.0.13 security advisories are now available: six vulnerabilities addressed, two of them, related to JavaScript labeled as critical.

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Michael Lefevre said on March 25, 2008, 8:57 pm:

I guess the lack of an update to the advisory page is because other programs with the same problems aren’t updated yet. I don’t know about Seamonkey, but David Ascher blogged about the update to Thunderbird – http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/03/16/progress-update/ – sounds like it will be some time behind in getting, I guess, the same vulnerabilities fixed.

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Percy Cabello said on March 25, 2008, 9:14 pm:

@Michael, I’m not sure about that as in the past Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, not to mention Camino have updated several days (or months) afterward but the advisories always come with the release. Perhaps there is some “particularly critical” bug there.

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Sprocket999 said on March 26, 2008, 9:14 am:

(OT) Funny you should mention that. I too have been using FF3v3b/3v4b for such a while the notion of FF2.x.x.x absolutely seems foreign.

For the record, I find the Mac (PPC) version on Tiger to be absolutely superb!!!
(/OT)

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Michael Lefevre said on March 26, 2008, 9:17 am:

@Percy: Looks like you’re entirely right :)

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SeaMonkey 1.1.9 update available now : Mozilla Links said on March 26, 2008, 10:15 am:

[...] update to its namesake Internet applications suite, SeaMonkey 1.1.9. Similar to yesterday’s Firefox 2.0.0.13, this update fixes six security vulnerabilities, two of them labeled as [...]