As announced, and earlier than expected, a quick Firefox update has been released to fix  a single bug that prevented some users accessing their saved passwords.

As usual, you should be prompted to updated in the next 48 hours, or you can select Check for Updates… in the Help menu for immediate service.

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.2, the second update to latest major Firefox release.

As usual, it comes with a number of stability fixes, and patches for five security vulnerabilites, two of them critical.

There are two new locales Sinhala and Slovene, raising to 48 the number of available Firefox locales, with eight more in beta status.

Also, this update bundles Gmail as a web mail provider, so you can use it to compose emails when clicking on mailto: links or for sharing web pages selecting File/Send Link… from the main menu. To use it, open the Options window (or Preferences on Linux and Mac), switch to the Applications page, look for mailto: in the Content Type column, and select Gmail.

To update, select Check for Updates… in the Help menu, or wait for the automatic prompt in the next 48 hours.

More details in Firefox 3.0.2 release notes.

Last night Mozilla started offering a major update for Firefox 2.0.0.16 users to Firefox 3.0.1, the current version.

Firefox 2 users will have the option to postpone the update for 24 hours (clicking on Later), or start the update right away (clicking on Get the new version). Pressing Never however doesn’t really mean never but “much later” (several weeks) which is what the label should read.

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