Firefox 3.5.2 was released by the Mozilla Project today. This release is mainly a security fix and all users are advised to download the new update as soon as possible. Please take the time to download this important security update today.
A list of security fixes is available after the jump.

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Only two weeks after the release of Firefox 3.0.12, the Mozilla Project has issued another release of Firefox 3. Firefox 3.0.13 includes several security fixes.
Rather than updating to this release, I recommend updating to the latest version of Firefox 3.5. Firefox 3.5 includes several performance updates that make it much faster than Firefox 3. [...]

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ISC is urging BIND users to upgrade their production DNS servers immediately. ISC recently announced a patch to fix an exploit in BIND. This exploit is in the wild and has been used to crash BIND servers resulting in a denial of service. Using a specially crafted dynamic update packet, a remote attacker can create [...]

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I use VirtualBox to run a Microsoft Windows guest on my iMac. For some reason, VirtualBox did not notify me that version 3.0 had been released. This new version includes symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for guest systems, Direct3D 8 and 9 for Windows guests, and OpenGL support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guests. The change log [...]

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The Mozilla Project released Firefox 3.0.12 today. In addition to several critical security fixes, this update includes a couple of fixes that improve performance in Mac OS X. Specifically, these fixes address storage problems in AFP mounted directories and AppleScripts failing to return proper data.
Take the time to update now.

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