Firefox 3.5.7 released
The folks at Mozilla released a new version of their main web browser, Firefox 3.5. In this seventh update the usual stuff is included to make this a recommended update for all users.
According to the release notes the two major changes are related to: a fix for a common stability issue and a fix to how updates are presented to users.
These rather vague descriptions are however backed by a bug list with three highly technical fixes: DNS resolution in MakeSN of nsAuthSSPI causing issues for proxy servers that support NTLM auth, [Win] Topcrasher for Firefox 3.5.1 [@ memmove | nsTArray_base::ShiftData(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)][@ nsObserverList::FillObserverArray, and do not use background notification for major updates (was PMU 3.0->3.5 major update has been really poor).
As always the update should happen automatically for Firefox 3.5 users (or can be triggered through Help > Check for Updates). If you don't have Firefox or want the full binary, you can download it from the official Mozilla site.
3.5.7 and 3.0.17 fix a serious bug which the devs didn't know about until mid December.
Previously, 3.0 users haven't been shown the large "update to 3.5" window unless they left their browser running for 12 hours, IIRC. Only the small notification would be shown in the corner of the screen.
So this update should give 3.5 numbers a noticable boost.
Should note that the crasher is a Windows only bug.
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