Browser bonanza: all five major browsers updated or patched

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 18 December 2008 04:03

IT Industry - Development

Every major web browser has been updated this week, mostly to deliver security patches.

It isn't every week that sees the delivery of an update for or affecting each of the major browsers. Those of us who like or need to use multiple browsers have plenty of downloading and installing to do, so thank goodness the process is largely automated.

Let's start with Firefox.

In addition to fixing several stability issues, Firefox 3.0.5 includes fixes for eight security issues, three of them critical.

The critical issues include cross site scripting and JavaScript privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

Other changes include official release of Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian language support; a new "Know Your Rights" info bar; and improvements to accessibility features.

Firefox 3.0.5 is available for Windows (2000 through Vista), Mac OS X (10.4 or later) and Linux.

Please read on for news of Internet Explorer, Safari, Camino and Opera.