Two New Firefox Stable Releases Are Available For Free Download: Firefox 3.0.2 and Firefox 2.0.0.17
Recently, two Firefox stable releases for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux were made available for free download by Mozilla Corporation: Firefox 3.0.2 and Firefox 2.0.0.17. Firefox 3.x users, as well as 2.x will enjoy a better browsing experience by updating their current browser version to the latest ones which comes with many security and stability issues fixes.
The security issues fixed in Firefox 3.0.2 are: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution, the browser crash that also shows memory corruption, traversal vulnerabilities, privilege escalation and forced mouse drag. In the same time, multiple stability issues discovered in Firefox 3.0.1 version were also fixed.
Regarding the localized versions, two new official releases exist for Sinhala and Slovene languages. Other beta releases are available for testing in case of Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Thai languages.
Other minor bugs that could influence the web browser stability were also corrected, like the rendering of the layout of certain web pages, missing Back and Forward buttons on customized toolbars, theme issues in case of right to left locales, web browser crashes during the usage of screen readers, password manager errors on certain IDN websites and many other.
Mozilla Corporation recommends to Firefox 2.x users to upgrade their web browser to the latest Firefox 3.x version due to its enhancements, stability and security features. Firefox 3.x and 2.x users will be automatically notified by the existence of the available updates, in this case Firefox 3.0.2 and Firefox 2.0.0.17. The manual update process can be performed by using the Help section in the main menu of the Firefox web browser.
A new installation of Firefox 3.x will overwrite any existing Firefox version. The user will still have its bookmarks and browsing history in place, but certain extensions could show incompatibilities with the updated Firefox version. In order to upgrade your Firefox web browser, the latest version is available for free download on Downloadtube website.
