Firefox 3.0.2 Update and Google Chrome Note
Category: Social Media News
Tags: firefox, google, web browser
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
With the buzz this month all about Google’s Chrome, the latest Firefox update probably won’t get much attention. This Firefox update is critical and fixes some security issues.
Fixed in Firefox 3.0.2 - Get Firefox Update
MFSA 2008-44 resource: traversal vulnerabilities
MFSA 2008-43 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17)
MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
MFSA 2008-40 Forced mouse drag
Firefox probably had a bit of a “fire” under their rear ends this month in looking at the enthusiasm of Google Chrome. I see the lesson learned is that the techie crowd wants speed and also doesn’t mind some usability improvements.
At the end of its third week of availability, Google Inc.’s Chrome accounted for 0.77% of the browsers that visited the 40,000 sites tracked by Net Applications, down from a 0.85% share the week before.
“The trend line on Chrome still has a slight downward angle, and these weekly numbers reflect that,” said Vince Vizzaccaro, Net Applications’ executive vice president of marketing. - Computerworld
As social media becomes more integrated into everyday browser functions, the browser leaders will be in a very powerful position.
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