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Mozilla releases Firefox 9.0

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Mozilla FirefoxKeeping with its rapid release program, Mozilla has posted Firefox 9.0 of its popular web browser for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android platforms.

Key additions are:

  • Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
  • Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
  • Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS3
  • Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
  • Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
  • Added support for font-stretch
  • Improved support for text-overflow

UPDATE: Within 24 hours, version 9.0.1 was released to address “several stability and security issues”.

Apple patches Safari web browser

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Apple has posted Safari 5.1.2 – its web browser for Mac and Windows operating systems.

The update plugs various security holes, plus:

  • Improves stability
  • Addresses issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
  • Addresses issues that could cause webpages to flash white
  • Allows PDFs to be displayed within web content

Apple Safari 5.1.2 requires Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 or Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and can be applied via Software Update.

Safari 5.0.4 for Windows requires Windows 7, Vista, or XP SP2; a minimum of 256 Mb of memory; and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor (using Top Sites and Cover Flow features require a compatible DirectX 9.0 video card with 64MB of video RAM).

Adobe patches Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader

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Adobe has patched a number of potentially dangerous security holes with the company’s release of it’s free PDF reader Adobe Reader 9.3.4 (for Mac, Windows, and Linux) and the commercial PDF creation application Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.4 (Mac/Win). The updates resolve a number of undisclosed security holes plus one revealed at the Black Hat USA 2010 security conference on July 28.

Adobe Security Item CVE-2010-2862 addresses the way Adobe Acrobat and Abobe Reader handles fonts, particularly an “integer overflow” whereby remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via a TrueType font.

It’s recommended that all users of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat 9 upgrade as soon as possible.

Apple posts Tiger security update

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Apple has posted Security Update “2008-008″ for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11).

According to the docs, this latest update (separate downloads for Intel, PPC, and Server) corrects issues relating to a number of maliciously crafted ISO archives, images, ISO files, PDFs, and websites as well as addresses vulnerabilities in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, and others. For detailed information on this update, click here.

The update is available either through the Software Update utility or on Apple’s support web site.