Mozilla updates it Firefox 2.0

Slashdot It! Mozilla Org release FireFox 2.0.0.1

What's New in Firefox 2.0.0.1

• Security Update: The following list of security issues have been fixed.

MFSA 2006-76 XSS using outer window's Function object MFSA 2006-75 RSS Feed-preview referrer leak MFSA 2006-73 Mozilla SVG Processing Remote Code Execution MFSA 2006-72 XSS by setting img.src to javascript: URI MFSA 2006-71 LiveConnect crash finalizing JS objects MFSA 2006-70 Privilege escallation using watch point MFSA 2006-69 CSS cursor image buffer overflow (Windows only) MFSA 2006-68 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1)

• Windows Vista Support: Windows Vista is generally supported with the following caveats.

• Firefox 2 What's New: For an overview of new features in Firefox 2, see the Firefox 2 Release Notes.

Downloading and Installing

System Requirements

Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system requirements.

Windows

Minimum System Requirements

• 233 Mhz processor
• 64 MB of RAM
• 50 MB of free disk space
• Microsoft Windows 98

Mozilla Recommends

• 500 Mhz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 100 MB of free disk space
• Microsoft Windows XP

Mac

Minimum System Requirements

• PowerPC G3 processor
• 128 MB of RAM
• 75 MB of free disk space
• Mac OS X 10.2.x

Mozilla Recommends

• PowerPC G4 or Intel processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 150 MB of free disk space

Linux

Minimum System Requirements

• 233 Mhz processor
• 64 MB of RAM
• 50 MB of free disk space
• Linux kernel 2.2.14 (with glibc 2.3.2, XFree86-3.3.6, gtk+2.0, fontconfig/xft and libstdc++5)

Mozilla Recommends

• 500 Mhz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 100 MB of free disk space
• a modern Linux distribution

Downloading Firefox 2

Mozilla.org provides Firefox 2 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. You can get the latest version of Firefox 2 here. For builds for other systems and languages not provided by Mozilla.org, see the Contributed Builds section at the end of this document.

Installing Firefox 2

Please note that installing Firefox 2 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won't lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.

Removing Firefox 2

You can remove Firefox 2 through the Control Panel in the Start Menu on Windows, by removing the Firefox application on OS X, or by removing the firefox folder on Linux.

Removing Firefox 2 won't remove your bookmarks, web browsing history, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in your profile folder, which is located in one of the following locations depending on your operating system:

Windows 2000, XP	Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Windows NT	WINNT\Profiles\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Windows 98, ME	Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Mac OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
Linux and Unix systems	~/.mozilla/firefox

Any version of Firefox that you install after removing Firefox 2 will continue to use the data from this profile folder.