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April 17, 2008 11:14 AM PDT

Patches for Firefox and Flock

by Seth Rosenblatt
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The past 24 hours have seen Mozilla Firefox (download from CNET Download.com for Windows and Mac) getting another security hole plugged, while its social-networking derivative Flock (also at CNET Download.com for Windows and Mac) earns a minor behavioral bug fix.

Firefox's most recent safety snafu is another JavaScript engine security problem that was causing the browser to crash during JavaScript garbage collection. Although there was no indication that this error was exploitable, says Mozilla, other similar errors in the past were. Not to mention the benefit of not having your browser randomly going kablooey.

Flock's fix involves repairing the People sidebar. For many users, Facebook friends weren't populating in the sidebar and now they should be. Of course, if you're like me and you lack not only Facebook friends but a Facebook account, too, then this was never an issue.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by jamal6666 April 17, 2008 9:18 PM PDT
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by preetlover22 May 26, 2008 1:04 AM PDT
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