I remember reading before that when you visited Google's home page on Internet Explorer there was a link pointing you to Firefox stating, "Firefox with Google Toolbar, Tabbed Browsing, Safer Surfing." With Google getting mega-million hits per day, I'd say that little link ad easily netted millions of loyal Firefox users and Firefox doesn't have to worry about Microsoft getting ahead in this game, even with the new Internet Explorer 7. Now with that said and done, it's time to talk about Firefox's newest update.
It seems like only a few days since Firefox was updated to version 2.0.0.5 but the ever busy development team had to release the new version earlier because of a recently discovered bug in the Windows version of Firefox. The new version is already available on the Mozilla homepage and the automatic update routine is also reporting version 2.0.0.6 as the latest version already.
The new version is fixing one critical and one moderate security vulnerability that I listed below for your convenience. Make sure you update to Firefox 2.0.0.6 as soon as possible.
MFSA 2007-27 Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
MFSA 2007-26 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
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