Mozilla Firefox Security Updates

Saturday, January 10, 2009

To keep Firefox secure, the folks at Mozilla have assembled a new update for the browser that patches a batch of security holes, several of them critical. One bug dwells in the browser's session-restore feature. Others could let an attacker take advantage of holes in Firefox's JavaScript (a popular Web programming language) engine to let an attacker take over your PC.

This release--Firefox 2.0.0.20--will be the final security update for the Firefox 2 line, Mozilla officials announced in a blog post. Why? It makes sense to support a single code base, so Mozilla is urging users to move to Firefox 3 (currently at version 3.0.5). Eight of the new patches are apply to both version 2 and version 3.