Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Firefox 3.6.4 Released

Mozilla has released new updates for Firefox 3.6.x and older 3.5.x versions. 3.6.4 version fixes seven vulnerabilities of which four are categorized as critical, two as moderate and one as low. Update 3.5.10, meant for older 3.5.x series, fixes nine vulnerabilities of which six are categorized as critical, two as moderate and one as low. 3.6.4 contains also some stability functionality to prevent Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins crash from crashing whole browser process. If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. One will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.

Update can be obtained by using inbuilt updater of Firefox or by downloading it manually.

Download links and related extra information:
Release notes for 3.6.4 version
Release notes for 3.5.10 version

Mozilla recommends 3.5.x series users to switch to 3.6.x series version. Security and stability updates for 3.5.x versions will be released until August 2010.

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