Brief Hands-On Report--Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.2, a Security Update

Firefox 2.0.0.2 is available via 'Check for updates' under the Help menu or via this MacUpdate.com Web page. The security fixes according to Mozilla are:

• MFSA 2007-07 Embedded nulls in location.hostname confuse same-domain checks
  
• MFSA 2007-06 Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) SSLv2 buffer overflow
  
• MFSA 2007-05 XSS and local file access by opening blocked popups
  
• MFSA 2007-04 Spoofing using custom cursor and CSS3 hotspot
  
• MFSA 2007-03 Information disclosure through cache collisions
  
• MFSA 2007-02 Improvements to help protect against Cross-Site Scripting attacks
  
• MFSA 2007-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.10/1.8.1.2)

We downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0.0.2 with no problems. There is an update (v1.7.0.7) for our favorite theme Nautipolis so we downloaded and installed it too. After several hours of Web browsing we noted no new issues. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]