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A new security update for Firefox 2 is available for download.

The Mozilla Foundation has put online a new security update for Firefox 2, the older version of its Internet browser open, multi-platform (Windows, Macintosh and Linux). Serialized 2.0.0.16, this sixteenth revision since October 2006 announced the correction of two vulnerabilities described as critical.

The first of these allows the opening of several tabs calling URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) command line while Firefox is not already executed, while the second allows the execution of arbitrary code remotely via overflow at an object CSS.

Note that these two vulnerabilities also affect Firefox 3.0 and will be corrected in the version 3.01 out very quickly.

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A new version of Opera Software has just been made available to users.

Opera, Internet browser multi platforms that we owe to the eponymous Norwegian publisher, we brought in a new version. Marked 9.51, this update brings small batch of improvements and corrections.

Notable among these is as follows:

* Improving the function of drag and drop into tabs
* Improving the reconnection of IRC client
* Improving the display of chat rooms
* The correction of a stability problem when printing or preview before printing
* The correction of a stability problem with the Yahoo! Mail
* The correction of a security hole discovered to execute arbitrary code
* The elimination of unwanted line breaks in text editors advanced
* The security mode is activated correctly when navigating on secure sites (HTTPS)
* The saving images is no longer registered in the transfer of files

Some improvements and corrections that would have perhaps been integrated into version 9.5 published a few weeks ago, then had he not been discussed ahead of the release of Firefox competitor in its version 3.0.

Expected hard by the open-source community, the new major revision of Firefox, the browser fetish of the Mozilla Foundation, should be available shortly.

Indeed, on its website, the Mozilla Foundation has announced the availability of the third version of RC (Release Candidate) Firefox 3.0, code-named Gran Paradiso.

The ratings upgrade associated indicate that this new version provides only preliminary correction of a critical bug in Mac OS X 10.5.3 (Leopard) compared to RC2. In case, a change made by Apple on the plugin called “VerifiedDownloadPlugin.” RC3 versions for Windows and Linux versions are identical to RC2.

The final version 3.0 is therefore increasingly close. The developers indicate that they intend to deliver on June 17 next. Even a little patience then. This is to recall the occasion to give developers the world record they seek and which he must admit, is well deserved given the work done.

As the version 3.0 RC3, it may be retrieved from the section the download website of Mozilla.

You not the maybe did step notice on account of the fact that the option is not put forward in the principal page of software, but ad-aware, a famous anti-spyware, has access to a cleaning unit for the customers of navigation Web. If you use the navigators Firefox, Internet explorer or Opera, it allows doing the cleaning in a single time.

For that, close first of all your navigators Web. Launch next software ad-aware using the placed icon on the office or while going through the unit of advanced research of the menu To Start up.

For that, close first of all your navigators Web. Launch next software ad-aware using the placed icon on the office or while going through the unit of advanced research of the menu To Start up.

Once in software, unfold the category “Tools and plug-ins” in the left party and click on “TrackSweep”.

Select next what it is necessary to clean for each of the three navigators (the mask, the cookies, the historic one, etc.) and click on the button “To Clean”.

Sometimes a small video is better than long lines, which is one of the leaders of Mozilla has decided to publish a screencast showing some key features to wait for Firefox 3.

To some encablures of his exit, the operation promotion “Firefox 3, come to see as it is well our navigator”, not some finishes on the Web with the evangelists of broken Mozilla to the exercise that itself give some to heart choice. After the announcement of an attempt of record of the world, Mike Beltzner decided to come back to the basic ones in enticing the netsurfer with the new functionalities that will bring the inquisitive one to the red panda. A reminder especially bound for all those that did not follow in our columns for example, the evolution of Firefox 3 with the passing of the publication of its various versions of development. Rather than a énième ticket on blog with text to the support, Beltzner chose for a video support through a screencast where are presented functionalities the more “sexy” of third Firefox of name.

In his video capture of the screen, Beltzner returns thus on the case of the bar of intelligent become addresses in Firefox 3 and that was the object of a special attention while being henceforth in direct liaison with the historic one of navigation. Thus, this bar is not far to improvise itself in search engine with seized words keys that not only can be part of the address itself, but equally body of a page. The bookmark organization has besides big facilitated summer and still in the address bar, a small star allows placing quickly a judged interesting page in a provisional file.

If the sites have decided to play the game, it is possible to learn more about their identity by clicking on the favicon. Various information is then delivered and we know who is really directed. This information is included in the panel Security with some statistical data as to whether the site has already been visited, or information relating to privacy.

The download manager has also been entitled to its share of significant improvements with opportunities to pause, resume and cancel the repatriation of a file. With a research module integrated to sort among downloads, the manager can also simply return to the page from which a download was made.

In his screencast, Beltzner also insists on seeking extensions and adding them directly from the Firefox user interface, and leaves no stress the security aspect of Firefox 3 with an anti-malware protection from the anti-supplement phishing. A well for the whole Internet according to its contention.

The release of Firefox 3 is scheduled for two weeks. We will publish in the next few days a complete dossier reflecting the additions to this third version. In the meantime, you can view the screencast Mike Beltzner.