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Information Technology News Firefox updates bring 1.5 to the end of the line
Information Technology News Firefox updates bring 1.5 to the end of the line | Firefox updates bring 1.5 to the end of the line |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 31 May 2007 | |
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Less serious bugs allowed a denial of service attack via the autocomplete feature, a pair of cookie handling problems, and the ability to spoof browser chrome such as the location bar via XUL popups. A Linux-only change means the browser now follows GTK settings for textbox keybindings. Sometime in the coming weeks, Firefox 1.5.0.12 users will be offered version 2 via the automatic update feature. All users of 1.5 are already encouraged to update to 2.0. All five of the above security issues were also fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.4. Furthermore, it delivers improved support for Vista, Afrikaans and Belarusian localisation, and a raft of non-security bug fixes. Work on Firefox 3 continues, and the alpha 5 preview is expected this week.{moscomment}
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