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Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released

Posted by simoniker on from the guard-dogs-at-the-ready dept.

petabyte writes "As mentioned in this Mozillazine article, there are new versions of the Mozilla Suite (1.7.2), Mozilla Firefox (0.9.3) and Mozilla Thunderbird (0.7.3) available. They address 4 security bugs (linked from the Mozillazine article). Unlike Firefox 0.9.2, these can't be fixed with just a XPI upgrade, so you'll have to download a new binary and install."

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  1. Re:Does this mean that . . . by irokitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trying to download a 4.0 MB file after it's linked to on the front page of Slashdot is never an easy thing, dude.

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  2. Re:slashdot still refuses to render in firefox by Valtor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I don't know about you, but the 503 errors are gone for me.

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  3. Re:Does this mean that . . . by red+floyd · · Score: 4, Funny

    got a nice hefty 1500KB/s sustained over a 768bps connection

    I'm impressed! How'd you get the 15,000x speedup?

    [
    for the math impaired:
    1500KB/s = 12000Kb/s
    12000Kb/s / 768bps = 15625.
    ]

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  4. Re:Does this mean that . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He used the Windows accelerators listed here.

    (They really do work!)

  5. Re:Does this mean that . . . by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's teh new compression.

    LK

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  6. Gentoo by mroch · · Score: 4, Funny
    "...so you'll have to download a new binary and install."

    Not on Gentoo, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Mod parent up. by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny
    t is constantly telling me that I have to upgrade to version 0.9.1 (which I'm running).

    Mine does the same, I however, am running 0.9.2 :D

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  8. Re:Mod parent up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's "hear, hear." Think of the children. Please.

  9. Re:Why does Thunderbird use IE??? by YetAnotherDave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you should browse to bugzilla.microsoft.com and enter a bug report against XP.

    If you tell them about the problem they'll hurry to solve it, I'm sure...

  10. Re:Does this mean that . . . by russint · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I guess bigger download speeds = bigger penis. I got it at 1120KB/S..

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  11. Re:UI Spoof Not Fixed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I noticed 0.9.3 doesn't fix the UI Spoof using XUL mentioned a few days ago... Could this mean what I think it means....

    Yes.... FireFox is your father.

  12. Re:For $500... by MikeCapone · · Score: 3, Funny

    A few random security flaws found. Imagine if it was worth thousands of dollars to you to find and exploit these flaws so you searched and found them months ago as part of your full-time work...

    I don't have to imagine it; we can see how well it works with microsoft products.

    They have paid programmers so there is no exploits and flaws in their software, right?

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