The Browser World

Mozilla recently released an update for Firefox to fix a potential security threat. This update is available through auto-update for people running Firefox 2.

The update only fixes one flaw in Firefox related to the Javascript “garbage collector” which may cause crashes in Firefox.
While this problem has not been exploited for any purposes, Firefox isn’t going to wait till it is. This is not a feature release, so no new features are added.

An interesting note is that this update fixes only one issue, unlike other updates that normally patches several issues at once. In addition, the security flaw was fixed as soon as it was announced (i.e. on the same day). A pretty impressing feat, considering most other browser makers (notably Microsoft) prefer the all-in-one approach, compared to the bit-by-bit approach used by Mozilla.