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Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-all-worlds dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Several vulnerabilities are fixed in version Firefox 1.5.0.2, which was released on Thursday. In addition to security patches Firefox now includes some stability enhancements and, as expected, includes native support for Apple Computer's Macs with Intel processors. Secunia has a detailed advisory about vulnerabilities fixed with this release."

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  1. Some leaks fixed by EggyToast · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's the big ones, IMO, from a mac user's perspective:
    • Memory leaks
    • 321283 - Using Find causes documents to leak.
    • 323532 - Leak when using history autocomplete.
    • 323377 - Lots of leaks in nsInternetSearchService.
    Numerous times would I come home to see Firefox using over a gig of memory and eating up about 40% of my proc cycles. A quick quit/restart of the app would fix it, but still -- I regularly close tabs and don't develop long histories on multiple open tabs, so it didn't make any sense.

    I just hope that those leaks are the ones I was actually experiencing...