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That’s new in Mozilla Firefox 6
In August the new version 6 of Mozilla Firefox will be released. In the current beta version you can already make a picture of what's new. First of all: For the average user, this update is not really worth to be done, because in comparison with earlier beta versions of Firefox, the changes are minimal. In the short time between new releases, this is not surprising. For the upcoming months even more sequels are planned. First, however, the focus remains on the upcoming release of Firefox 6.
Mozilla annoys Firefox users by the new release policy
Mozilla has introduced a new release policy with the release of Firefox 4. New major releases should be deployed faster in the future and so Firefox 5 is already available a few weeks after the release of the new Firefox 4. But not only the end users have their problems, also companies complain about the arrogant policies of Mozilla. But even Mozilla wants to know anything, they still believe that a user finds it great when he "should" upgrade his browser every 6 weeks with a complete new version.
Preview of Firefox 5
The last major release of Firefox is only a few weeks old and it is already time to take a look at the upcoming version of Firefox. Mozilla wants to launch new releases in shorter time intervals. On the end of June there shall be already Firefox 5. In the current release there is no greater development, there will be only security updates and fixes for stability problems. The main new features in Firefox will follow in version 5.
But we should not expect too large jumps. To the end of June there are only 2 months left and in the current Aurora trial, only a few changes are mentioned. Optically there has almost nothing changed. There have been some performance improvements. In the internet were already some mock-ups to the fitted surface of Firefox 5, but it is still not implemented.
Firefox 4: What’s new?
The new major release Firefox 4 is now available since a few days in the final version. But what's new in the Firefox Browser of the 4th Generation? First, it could be said that there are both visual and technical improvements. Let's start with the visual changes. New here is the arrangement of the tabs, menu bar, address bar and buttons.
The tabs are moved up and are now fitted over the address bar. This will have the advantage that the mouse movements to be shorter. Also, the App tab has been migrated from an add-on to default browser functionality. Using the context menu of a tab, there is a "Pin as App-Tab" function.
Changes in Firefox 3.6.13
In the current Firefox version 3.6.13 there are several changes that improve both the stability and the security of the browser. In total there were 11 security-related updates.
- Incomplete fix for CVE-2010-0179
- Integer overflow vulnerability in NewIdArray
- Use-after-free error with nsDOMAttribute MutationObserver
- Java security bypass from LiveConnect loaded via data: URL meta refresh
- Add support for OTS font sanitizer
- Crash and remote code execution using HTML tags inside a XUL tree
- Chrome privilege escalation with window.open and ISINDEX element
- Buffer overflow while line breaking after document.write with long string
- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
- Location bar SSL spoofing using network error page
- XSS hazard in multiple character encodings
Firefox 3.6.12 fixes a critical security issue
After the release of Firefox 3.6.11 Mozilla has presented the next version of the successful web browser. More or less pleasant, of course, are the reasons that led to a new update. Morten Kråkvik has found a vulnerability in Firefox, with that he could provoke a heap buffer overflow. This makes it theoretically possible that an attacker could execute malicious code on the computer.
The vulnerability can be achieved by the use of Javascript functions document.write exploit with DOM. This problem affect the versions Firefox 3.6 and 5.3, also Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are affected. It is gratifying, however, that Mozilla has reacted quickly and has now fixed the vulnerability. With the new version Firefox 3.6.12, surfing through the internet is safe again.
Security-Updates: Firefox 3.6.11 is available
Mozilla made some security updates in the new Firefox Release 3.6.11!
This is the list of the fixes, which were done:
- Insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange
- Unsafe library loading vulnerabilitie
- SSL wildcard certificate matching IP addresses
- Cross-site information disclosure via modal calls
- XSS in gopher parser when parsing hrefs
- Dangling pointer vulnerability in LookupGetterOrSetter
- Use-after-free error in nsBarProp
- Buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write
- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
The new version is available here.
Mini-Update: Firefox 3.6.8 available
A few days before Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.7 and now it is already the next update to version 3.6.8 available! Since the last update there were many changes and fixes, so you could actually expect an imminent update to 3.6.8. Due to the necessary update was that at some sites in conjunction with plug-ins it came to stability problems. This should be fixed now with the new Release.
Mozilla closes lot of security issues in Firefox 3.6.7
Mozilla has released another version of Firefox. With release 3.6.7 a lot of security issues are resolved. About 8 critical and 2 high priority problems.
A list of the fixed bugs:
- Remote code execution using malformed PNG image
- nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution vulnerability
- nsCSSValue::Array index integer overflow
- Arbitrary code execution using SJOW and fast native function
- Plugin parameter EnsureCachedAttrParamArrays remote code execution vulnerability
- Use-after-free error in NodeIterator
- DOM attribute cloning remote code execution vulnerability
- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards
Most of the bugs comes together with buffer overflow and remote code executing. Please update to Firefox 3.6.7 as soon as possible.
Firefox 3.6.6 is now available
After the previous version of Firefox was scheduled, the Mozilla team updated Firefox again and is now providing Firefox 3.6.6 for all users. Because of the new plugin crash protection which was released in version 3.6.4, some flash games with a loading time of more than 10 seconds, were killed.
In the new release this timeout is now increased to an amount of 45 seconds, so that the most long loading plugins should work again.
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