Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support

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."

Comments

"Fixes some security issues"?

[YU Nicks NE Way]

Sweet baby Jesus, it fixes 21 separate issues *all of which can be used to execute arbitrary code*! Did they have time to fix any vulnerabilities which were only "somewhat critical"?

Re:It still leaks!

[shawn(at)fsu]

if it doesn't work as well for you, something else is wrong.
Just because it works fine on one machine is no guarantee that it will work just as well on other machines.

I'm up to 80 megs used with only 4 tabs open (CNN /. Gmail, Milk&Cookies). I changed the setting in about.config weeks ago.

Firefox doesn't release memory like it should. It jumped from 50 to 75 when I opened a new window to view a QuickTime movie, when I closed it the memory wasn't release. If I watch a wmv file it will routinely jumped in to the high 90's low 100's. I opened the same pages with IE and when I close the window with the QuickTime movie the memory jumps back down.