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02-25-2005, 10:04 AM
Mozilla Foundation's browser fix covers "moderately-critical" and other security vulnerabilities, and addresses dozens of performance issues.
It's time to update the millions of Firefox 1.0 browsers that have been downloaded over the past 11 weeks. The Mozilla Foundation on Thursday released its first security update to Firefox, comprising a series of patches intended to prevent spoofing and phishing attacks and fix glitches that cause the browser to crash.
The security update, Firefox 1.0.1, can be downloaded immediately at www.mozilla.org, and it will be available within a few days via Firefox's automatic update feature. "I'd encourage users to get this release, especially if they've been prone to phishing attacks or spoofing," says Chris Hofmann, director of engineering with Mozilla, a nonprofit software-development organization. "A lot of work in this release focuses on those areas." Read more at InformationWeek (http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BZQCYOJRMYVLMQSNDBGCK HSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=60403364)
It's time to update the millions of Firefox 1.0 browsers that have been downloaded over the past 11 weeks. The Mozilla Foundation on Thursday released its first security update to Firefox, comprising a series of patches intended to prevent spoofing and phishing attacks and fix glitches that cause the browser to crash.
The security update, Firefox 1.0.1, can be downloaded immediately at www.mozilla.org, and it will be available within a few days via Firefox's automatic update feature. "I'd encourage users to get this release, especially if they've been prone to phishing attacks or spoofing," says Chris Hofmann, director of engineering with Mozilla, a nonprofit software-development organization. "A lot of work in this release focuses on those areas." Read more at InformationWeek (http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BZQCYOJRMYVLMQSNDBGCK HSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=60403364)