The first release candidate Firefox 3 is out. It’s mainly targeted at developers, bug testers and superusers.
Installed it yesterday and only managed to get 3 of my add-ons working but the performance improvement on the other hand was noticeable as promised.
Take it for a spin.

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Firefox 2.0.0.13 has just been released. It fixes a few security issues.
XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect 2008-17
Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution
If the auto update does not work for [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena.
As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. Currently [...]

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Mozilla has released it’s latest beta release of Firefox 3. Firefox 3 Beta 3.
Some of the new features include improved security through better user tracking, malware detection, stricter SSL rules and also anti virus support for the built in download manager. The download manager also benefits from some  changes, resume is now supported, a new [...]

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Mozilla has release a new version of the popular Firefox web browser. Version 2.0.0.12.
This release fixes some important security vulnerabilities that were discovered in 2.0.0.11.
MFSA 2008-11  Web forgery overwrite with div overlay
MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering
MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history [...]

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