Data Circle

The Mozilla team have released another update to the popular Firefox browser, promising “improvements to product stability”, though personally I take that promise with a pinch of salt – improvements to stability have been in the release notes of almost every version I can remember and yet Firefox still crashes regularly for me and leaks memory like a sieve. There’s also native support for the new Macs with Intel processors and fixes for several security bugs. Be warned however, that if you’re using a new Mac you’ll still get updated to the PPC-only build if you use the ‘check for updates’ option, and Talkback (the bug reporting tool) also apparently doesn’t work natively or under Rosetta.

If you’re interested in the details, check out the official release notes and the unofficial changelog. The latter document is more detailed and I’d recommend reading it over the official version if you want to know the specific bugs fixed by the update.

Further coverage

• Firefox update kills security bugs, adds Mac support at ZDNet