Upgrade To Latest Firefox 3.0.5 - Protect Yourself From Major Security Issues

Firefox recently released Firefox 3.0.5 . Its latest version . This time firefox has fixed a lot of MAJOR security issues . So it is important for you to upgrade to the latest firefox which is firefox 3.0.5 . A list of the major fixes and the major security fixes are shown below :

Major Issues Fixed are :

- Fixed several security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.
- Official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages are now available.
- Replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new "Know Your Rights" info bar on initial install.
- When installing multiple signed XPIs simultaneously, previous versions of Firefox would fail.
- Fixed several issues found in the accessibility implementation.
- Added the ability to send OS-specific system notes in the crash reporter.

The major security issues fixed are :

MFSA 2008-69 XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore
MFSA 2008-68 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation
MFSA 2008-67 Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser
MFSA 2008-66 Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters
MFSA 2008-65 Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message
MFSA 2008-64 XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure
MFSA 2008-63 User tracking via XUL persist attribute
MFSA 2008-60 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.5/1.8.1.19)

So ensure that you have the latest firefox installed . You can do this by going to Help->About Mozilla Firefox . Check your Version there. Ensure that it has the latest verion i.e. 3.0.5 .
It should have automatically updated . If it hasnt then , manually check for updates. Linux users can use THIS TUTORIAL to install the latest mozilla firefox manually.