It has been just
over a month since the Mozilla development team released Firefox 3.5.5, and now
the time has come again to implement additional security issues and stability
enhancements.
As we patiently wait in anticipation for the big Firefox 3.60
build to arrive in Spring 2010, it is important that we show our respect and
encouragement to the individuals within the Mozilla development team who have
provided us with open source browsing for over five years in a row.
A few hours ago, Firefox 3.5.6 was released as a minor update
that addresses a total of 62 bugs found in 3.5.5, all of which can be found here.
At the same time, the team has released Firefox 3.0.16 which boasts five
security updates. However, it is important for Firefox 3.0.x users to keep in
mind that this release will be maintained with security and stability updates
until January 2010, which is less than a few weeks away at this point.
In particular, Firefox 3.5.6 tackles three
critical-rated issues including location bar spoofing vulnerabilities, an NTLM
reflection vulnerability, memory safety fixes in the liboggplay video library,
and crashes with evidence of memory corruption, among others.
Firefox 3.5.6 can be downloaded here.