Firefox users are urged to update their web browser software following the discovery of a slew (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox) of security vulnerabilities. Version 1.0.5 (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.5.html) of the popular web browser addresses nine security bugs while also incorporating stability improvements.

Security notification service Secunia rates (http://secunia.com/advisories/16059) the cross-platform update as "highly critical". The Mozilla Foundation promises (http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,103159,00.html) to release a related sub-set of patches for its Thunderbird email client. A security update for Mozilla's internet software suite covering a seperate group (http://secunia.com/advisories/16059) of security vulns is also promised for later this week.

Along with the Firefox security update, Tuesday also brought three critical security patches from Microsoft and the release (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/apple_posts_tiger_10-4-2/) of security fixes (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/apple_posts_tiger_10-4-2/) from Apple making it an exceptionally busy day. ®

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