The Mozilla Firefox development team had to react quickly after a working vulnerability was discovered affecting all the latest versions of the Firefox web browser. (read Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit). After news about the vulnerability spread like wildfire on the Internet a first official statement was released that was suggesting an early release of Firefox 3.0.8 on March 30, 2009. Many users felt that the Mozilla team should release the new version earlier than that after fixes for the vulnerabilities had been confirmed to close the security hole for every Firefox user.
The good news is that Firefox 3.0.8 has already been uploaded to the official Mozilla ftp site. It can be downloaded from there by everyone. The problem is that some users and the Mozilla team discouraged users to post links to those new releases to avoid disturbing the mirror distribution process and to avoid complications if that release will receive a last minute fix.
That’s a catch-22 situation as you can imagine. Interested users should perform a search for the Mozilla ftp site on Google or another search engine to locate it. They will find a Firefox directory there and another subdirectory called 3.0.8 which contains downloads for all languages and operating systems supported.
If you want to be safe download it right away. If you want to wait for the official announcement install and use the No Script add-on to increase Firefox security and avoid falling prey to the vulnerability.
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[...] trovata dal giorno della release della precedente versione, in accordo con quanto sostiene il blog gHacks. La patch è già disponibile sui server FTP di Mozilla, anche se la maggior parte delle persone [...]
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[...] The folks at Mozilla are pushing out a quick release of Firefox 3.0.8 next week to address a zero-day exploit found in the latest version, according to weblog gHacks. The fix is already on Mozilla’s FTP servers, but folks are generally discouraged from hitting their their FTP server; luckily it looks like 3.0.8 has already been pushed to their release server, so if you can’t wait for a more official security release next week, you should be able to grab the latest from there. [gHacks] [...]
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[...] The folks at Mozilla are pushing out a quick release of Firefox 3.0.8 next week to address a zero-day exploit found in the latest version, according to weblog gHacks. The fix is already on Mozilla’s FTP servers, but folks are generally discouraged from hitting their their FTP server; luckily it looks like 3.0.8 has already been pushed to their release server, so if you can’t wait for a more official security release next week, you should be able to grab the latest from there. Update: Asa Dotzler from Mozilla still says updating from the release servers causes problems for them, despite what their FTP page says. Our apologies, Mozilla folks. [gHacks] [...]
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[...] The folks at Mozilla are pushing out a quick release of Firefox 3.0.8 next week to address a zero-day exploit found in the latest version, according to weblog gHacks. The fix is already on Mozilla’s FTP servers, but folks are generally discouraged from hitting their their FTP server; luckily it looks like 3.0.8 has already been pushed to their release server, so if you can’t wait for a more official security release next week, you should be able to grab the latest from there. Update: Asa Dotzler from Mozilla still says updating from the release servers causes problems for them, despite what their FTP page says. Our apologies, Mozilla folks. [gHacks] [...]
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No link?!
If you are running Windows; http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.8/win32/
Open the folder containing the language of your choice and download the .exe
Very good announce, thanks for it.
Bloggliv – allt om datorer och IT » Blog Archive » Dagens intressanta #7
stop posting BS!
Just click “Help -> Check for Updates” and you’ll get an install dialog. Please don’t point people to a specific server, it causes all kinds of problems and results in more users waiting longer to get updated. Thanks.
Firefox automatically got updated to 3.0.8 today morning.