![]() The Mozilla Firefox development team released version 3.05 of the popular web browser a day after the Opera team updated their browser. Fixed an issue where the IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters was covered by the "Add Bookmark" panel.In some cases, Firefox would not properly save proxy settings for protocols other than HTTP.Fixed an issue where some passwords saved using Firefox 3.0.2 did not work properly.Firefox 3.04 adds support for Thai and Icelandic as well as beta test releases for Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh. Lastly language support and language related additions seem to have been a priority. The release notes do not contain information about the stability updates but the full list of bug fixes mentions a few fixes that stop browser crashes. You can access the list of security fixes at the Security Advisories page for Firefox 3. ![]() A total of nine security vulnerabilities have been fixed in the update including four critical vulnerabilities. The release is a security and stability update. A serious problem for everyone who used the Firefox Password Manager to store passwords in the web browser. The bug made it impossible for some users to retrieve saved passwords or to save new passwords. ![]() Firefox 3.03 fixes only one bug that affected some users of the previous version. Only two days after releasing Firefox 3.02 the Mozilla Firefox team released the new version Firefox 3.03 which is usually a sign of a serious bug in the previous version. Some interesting changes are several security and stability fixes, minor layout issues and hangs & crashes when using screen readers. The release notes are still mentioning changes of the beta version of Firefox 3.02 but will surely be updated soon with the release information which should not be that different. The other two just for those who have not read the update post are a remote code execution vulnerability and the launching of multiple tabs when Firefox is not running. Two of the three vulnerabilities have been the same that were fixed in Firefox 2 while one is a Gif rendering vulnerability on Mac OS X that could crash the browser. Two of my add-ons stopped working and I had to manually edit them so that they I could continue using them. It is recommended to update Firefox 3 as soon as possible to close the security holes. The update fixes three security updates that have a critical rating making this a security update. Shortly after releasing version Firefox 2.0.0.16 the Firefox development team released another update this time for Firefox 3. Plugin management via the add-on manager.More than 1.4 million users have already pledged to download Firefox 3 today and we can expect to see a (much) higher number in the end because not everyone knows about the world record and not everyone obviously entered his email address for the pledge. We have covered earlier that Mozilla is trying to create a world-record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. ![]() As usual it is available for all supported operating systems and languages which means everyone should find his version in the ftp. Firefox 3 final has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site just a minute ago and everyone can already download the client if they do not want to wait for the official announcement on the Mozilla website and the "world-record" website.
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