{"id":1889,"date":"2010-06-23T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:57:55","slug":"firefox-update-security-fixes-and-plug-in-crash-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/firefox-update-security-fixes-and-plug-in-crash-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Update: Security Fixes and Plug-In Crash Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Foundation has released an update to its Firefox web browser, which includes a number of security fixes as well as a feature called &#8220;Crash Protection&#8221;, which claims to ensure that when plug-ins crash, the web browser will keep on working, once users refresh the page they are viewing. Since Firefox relies on many third-party plug-ins &#8211; optional, but widely used &#8211; this feature, which is described on the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2010\/06\/22\/firefox-3-6-4-with-crash-protection-now-available\/\">Mozilla Developer Central blog<\/a>, should &#8220;significantly reduce the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games.&#8221; However, this crash protection feature is not yet available for the Mac OS X version of Firefox, and there&#8217;s no information as to when it will be.<\/p>\n<p>As for security fixes, the Mozilla Foundation discusses them in two security advisories (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2010\/mfsa2010-29.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2010\/mfsa2010-26.html\">here<\/a>), calling them critical.<\/p>\n<p>As always, users can update their copy of Firefox by using the program&#8217;s built-in update function, or download a fresh copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Foundation has released an update to its Firefox web browser, which includes a number of security fixes as well as a feature called &#8220;Crash Protection&#8221;, which claims to ensure that when plug-ins crash, the web browser will keep on working, once users refresh the page they are viewing. 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