In their ever-continuing quest against security flaws in Firefox, the Mozilla Corporation has just updated Firefox to the awkwardly numbered version 2.0.0.5. Eight flaws are fixed in this release - three of which are marked as critical. Those of you wanting to know exactly which vulnerabilities have been fixed might want to check out the Vulnerabilities page at the Mozilla homepage.

If you're already running Firefox 2.0.0.x, then the auto-update mechanism will inform you of the update "within 24-48 hours" and Mozilla folks are also reminding folks that they have ceased support for Firefox 1.5.0.x, stating "you are highly encouraged to upgrade to the Firefox 2 series". For those of us using specialised builds (such as the Intel or PowerPC Mac OS X-optimised Bon Echo versions), we'd hazard a guess that updated versions of those are also on their way in due course from the respective third parties who build them.

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