Small Firefox update — 2.0.0.14

by multippt on April 18, 2008

 Firefox 2.0.0.14

Mozilla recently released an update for Fire­fox to fix a poten­tial secu­rity threat. This update is avail­able through auto-update.

The update only fixes one flaw in Fire­fox related to the Javascript “garbage col­lec­tor” which may cause crashes in Fire­fox. While this prob­lem has not been exploited for any pur­poses, Fire­fox isn’t going to wait till it is. This is not a fea­ture release, so no new fea­tures are added.

An inter­est­ing note is that this update fixes only one issue, unlike other updates that nor­mally patches sev­eral issues at once. In addi­tion, the secu­rity flaw was fixed as soon as it was announced (i.e. on the same day). A pretty impress­ing feat, con­sid­er­ing most other browser mak­ers (notably Microsoft) pre­fer the all-in-one approach, com­pared to the bit-by-bit approach used by Mozilla.

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david May 17, 2009 at 6:07 pm

not sure

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