Brief Hands-On Report--Mozilla updated Camino, Firefox and SeaMonkey Web Browsers

Mozilla released updates for its Web browsers:

Camino 1.5.2 -- Mac OS X native for both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs. Here are the changes:

• Upgraded to version 1.8.1.8 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
  
• Large download lists and corrupt site icons will no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows.
  
• When viewing the source of a frame, Camino now uses cached data instead of requesting the frame again.
  
• When JavaScript code wants to focus a minimized window, Camino now properly restores the window from the Dock.
  
• Pages which perform actions when the tab or window is closed now function properly.
  
• Camino no longer adds site icons for local files to the site icon cache.
  
• Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.4.1.
  
• Upgraded the bundled Java Embedding Plugin to version 0.9.6.3.
  
• Improved ad-blocking.

Firefox 2.0.0.8 -- Stand-alone cross-platform Web browser. Here are the changes:

• The following security issues were fixed:
  • MFSA 2007-36 URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows
    MFSA 2007-35 XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object
    MFSA 2007-34 Possible file stealing through sftp protocol
    MFSA 2007-33 XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
    MFSA 2007-32 File input focus stealing vulnerability
    MFSA 2007-31 Browser digest authentication request splitting
    MFSA 2007-30 onUnload Tailgating
    MFSA 2007-29 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)
• Firefox 2.0.0.8 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins.
  
• New Languages: Official releases for Georgian (ka) and Romanian (ro) are now available. Beta release for Kurdish (ku) is also available for testing.

SeaMonkey 1.1.5 -- All-in-one internet suite. Here are the changes:

• Security fixes:

MFSA 2007-36 URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows
MFSA 2007-35 XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object
MFSA 2007-34 Possible file stealing through sftp protocol
MFSA 2007-33 XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
MFSA 2007-32 File input focus stealing vulnerability
MFSA 2007-31 Browser digest authentication request splitting
MFSA 2007-30 onUnload Tailgating
MFSA 2007-29 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)
MFSA 2007-28 Code execution via QuickTime Media-link files

We downloaded and briefly used all three Web browsers. No issues were encountered. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]