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Mozilla Fixes Several Critical Bugs in Firefox v1.5.0.2

Mozilla has unveiled an upgraded version of its browser Mozilla Firefox v1.5.0.2. All users are strongly recommended to upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.2, a stability and security update to Firefox 1.5. Users should get an automatic update notification, but if this is turned off they can download Firefox from the download page.

According to a report on Techweb News, the new release "included 7 patches, 5 of them critical. It also unveiled 11 new patches for the older Firefox 1.5, 15 for the even older Firefox 1.0x line in an update numbered 1.0.8, and 19 in the Sea Monkey browser suite, the replacement for the now-defunct Mozilla suite. (Note: Tallies exceed the total of 18 patches because some were applied to more than one version.)"

The report also noted that "Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia tagged the overall updates -- to Firefox 1.5.0.2 and 1.08, and Sea Monkey 1.0.1 -- as "Highly critical," its second-from-the-top ranking. That ranking was the same as Secunia awarded Tuesday's 10-bug patch for IE."


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