Software Update: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12

Version 3.5 of the web browser Mozilla Firefox has been out for a while, but the Mozilla Foundation has not yet turned its back on the 3.0 series. That won’t happen until January of next year, and updates will continue to be released until then. Mozilla Firefox is available in many languages ​​and available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The main downloads can be found at the bottom of this posting. Six security issues have been fixed in this release, five of which have been identified as critical marked, stability has been improved and some bugs have been fixed. Below is the full changelog for this release:

Firefox 3.0.12 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.11:

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Fixed an issue introduced in Firefox 3.0.11, where Firefox would occasionally freeze when accessing the Java plug-in on Windows XP. (bug 498132)
• Fixed an issue introduced in Firefox 3.0.11, where Firefox would not save data properly when a user stored their home directory on a remote location using AFP. (bug 497792)
• On Mac OS X, fixed an issue where certain AppleScripts failed to return the proper information. (bug 427448)
• see the Firefox 3.0.11 release notes for changes in previous releases.

see the complete list of bugs fixed.

The following downloads are available:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Windows (Frisian)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Linux (Frisian)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Mac OS X (English)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Mac OS X (English)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 for Mac OS X (Frisian)