Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0.1

On 16th July 2008, SillyDog701 member J-M informed us that Mozilla had released version 3.0.1 of the Firefox web browser.

This new version addresses several issues found with the initial release of Firefox 3.0 since its June 17th release, including the remote code execution vulnerability mentioned earlier last month along with two other security vulnerabilities marked with "Critical" importance.

Firefox 3.0.1 can be downloaded from Mozilla's download page.

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The complete list of changes as per the Firefox 3.0.1 Release Notes are as follows:

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
• Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly save the SSL certificate exceptions list.
• Updated the internal Public Suffix
  list.


• In certain cases, installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which
  Firefox 3 has been installed resulted in Firefox 2 being unstable. This
  issue was fixed as part of Firefox 2.0.0.15.


• Fixed an issue where, when printing a selected region of content from the
  middle of a page, some of the output was missing (bug 433373).


• Fixed a Linux issues where, for users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL)
  Firefox always started in "Offline" mode (bug 424626).