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Firefox 3.0.4 patches security flaws

by Michael Rose Nov 13th 2008 at 5:13PM

If your needle doesn't swing towards the compass when it comes to browsing the Web, there's an update out for you too: Firefox 3.0.4 dropped yesterday, patching four critical security vulnerabilities and several less-serious holes while improving stability and addressing other bugs. Localization is coming along too: the new version features official builds for Icelandic and Thai, and beta takes for the Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, Welsh and (tre bona!) Esperanto.

You can get the 17.2MB download from Mozilla or via the automatic Software Update checker in Firefox.



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Dustin Schriffert

Hopefully this release fixes the random crashing FF3 does for me at least 3-4 times a day. But I still love Firefox more than any browser. Mozilla, oh how you just keep pulling me back.

November 14 2008 at 3:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Barker

Hope you don't mean Esperanto Theo!

Congratulations to Firefox for being ahead of the field in introducing Esperanto.

Only now is it being generally understood that the use of this planned language is widespread.

Esperanto is in the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide, according to the CIA factbook. It is the 17th most used language in Wikipedia, and in use by Skype, and Facebook, as well as Firefox. Yet these facts are little known.

Thankyou again Mozilla!

November 14 2008 at 2:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Theo

It's for all those languages that you'll never use.

November 14 2008 at 12:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TuxToaster

17.2MB? Anyone else remember the good ol' days when Firefox was just a few megabytes?

November 13 2008 at 10:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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waiownsyou

Safari's update is 40 MB.

November 14 2008 at 12:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
danielj.paull

Still nothing on Minefield. With Nightly tester tools nothing touches it. Stunning browser.

November 13 2008 at 7:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
alfriede

@ grull27 [in the words of borat]........NOT! they both have their advantages, but for me, safari is much smoother than firefox. with safari 3 came much improvements, including my #1 gripe - no way to save your last open session - which was thankfully fixed.

also, has anyone else had any issue with the ffox 3.0.4 update? my gf ran it today and after two reboots, still can't get ffox 3.0.4 to open.

November 13 2008 at 6:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Adam

Working fine here. Seems a little quicker too, though I am sure that effect will wear off after a day LOL

November 13 2008 at 6:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
grull27

I think we can all agree when I say:

Firefox > Safari

November 13 2008 at 5:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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SaNcTuS

I strongly concur.

November 13 2008 at 6:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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