Brief Hands-On Report--Firefox 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.12 are Out

and available for download. Here is Firefox 1.0.7 and here is Mozilla Suite 1.7.12. The fixes included are for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw. Other security and stability changes are also inside, including a Proxy Auto-Config script crash fix. The are other fixes including several regressions caused by previous security updates. Here are the Firefox release notes and the Mozilla Suite Release Notes.

We downloaded both applications and browsed the internet, downloaded files and forwarded web pages with no problems encountered in either. [Dana Baggett and Bill Fox]



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