Mozilla Foundation Unleashes Firefox 1.0.5

The Mozilla Foundation Tuesday updated its Firefox stand-alone browser to version 1.0.5, fixing several vulnerabilities that have popped up since the last minor upgrade two months ago.

Firefox 1.0.5, which has been in testing for several weeks, can be downloaded from the Mozilla Web site free of charge.

“This is a collection of security bug fixes and stability improvements,” said Chris Hofmann, Mozilla’s director of engineering. “We’re also trying to anticipate some potential security problems with this update by patching vulnerabilities that alone aren’t that significant, but might be used together to create an exploit. Most of them involve quite a bit of user interaction.”