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Google recently adopted an accelerated release cycle for its Chrome browser, pushing out a new stable release every six weeks. Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 for Windows, Mac, and Linux introduces the majority of Chrome users to features that have been available to beta and developer’s build users for several months, as well as fixing hundreds of [...]

Google updated the stable and beta builds of its Chrome browser on Tuesday evening, making a fix marked as critical to the Mac version and numerous repairs marked as high-priority across all platforms. Chrome 6.0.472.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux also repaired a Linux-specific memory corruption bug. At the time of writing, the critical Mac [...]

The stable version of Google Chrome received multiple security fixes today, including four rated as “high”, while the developer’s version adopted an interface tweak to create more room for extension icons. Google Chrome dev 6.0.453.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux consolidates the former page control menu into the customization menu that’s accessible from the wrench [...]

Mozilla on Tuesday patched nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5. But rather than highlighting the security fixes in Firefox 3.6.4, the company instead emphasized the addition of crash protection, a move meant to keep the browser alive when popular plug-ins drop dead. [ Learn how to secure your systems [...]

Google issued a course correction for the stable version of Chrome on Wednesday. In addition to JavaScript sluggishness and Java plug-in issues introduced in the previous version, Google also made three critical security patches to its browser. The last version of Google Chrome stable, version 4.1.249.1059, was using an incorrect path for version 6 update [...]

Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.3 Thursday to close a critical security hole. The hole, a memory corruption flaw, could have let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on a person’s computer. The problem doesn’t affect Firefox 3.5 or other earlier versions, Mozilla said. Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.2 just over a week earlier, also for security reasons.

Opera Software will soon patch a vulnerability in its Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on a Windows computer. The problem affects Opera browser version 10.50 running on Windows and possibly others, according to an advisory from Danish security company Secunia said. [ Discover what's new in business applications with [...]

Mozilla on Wednesday patched five vulnerabilities, three of them critical, in older editions of Firefox and in the process extended the support life of Firefox 3.0 by at least one more month. The newest Mozilla browser, Firefox 3.6, already contains the patches. [ Also in InfoWorld: A beta of Opera 10.5 leapfrogged every rival to [...]

Mozilla has updated its Firefox browser to patch three critical security holes. Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 both suffered from memory corruption issues. “We presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code,” the security advisory said. In addition, Firefox 3.5.6 had two critical vulnerabilities in its technology [...]

Mozilla yesterday patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser’s rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and other components. Firefox 3.5.6, the browser’s first security update since late October , fixed five flaws rated critical by Mozilla, one tagged as high, three pegged as moderate, and one labeled as [...]