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Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released
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."
What I find odd is that despite this release being focused on patching security vulnerabilities there's no noticable mention on the web site of the importance of this update. I leave my home page set to the FireFox page in hopes that there will be a clear message saying if there's a need to upgrade, but the page itself only says 0.9 -- and I'm fairly confident that the average user isn't going to figure out the difference from the front page (which now says 0.9.3, but how many users are aware of what version they're using?) It wasn't until I read slashdot that I was made aware of the release of this security update, and who knows if something could have happened since then?
While I don't expect a windowsupdate.com for Mozilla, being that a main criticism of users is their failure to keep software updated why don't the developers make it more clear that an update is even present?