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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Firefox 15 improves memory management and security

The Mozilla Foundation today launched Firefox 15. The browser version should greatly improve the user experience, including correcting the perennial problem of memory management long criticized Mozilla. This version also fixes several security vulnerabilities.

Mozilla has released version 15 of its Firefox browser, ensuring that users would see dramatic improvements in performance, particularly because the new code that prevents memory leaks from add-ons. The Open Source developer also corrected 31 vulnerabilities, 23 of them were described as "critical" threat level of the highest operating system Mozilla. Five for their part were labeled "high" and three were declared "moderate." Nearly half of these vulnerabilities have been reported by Abhishek Arya aka "Inferno", a member of the security team of Google Chrome, Mozilla said.

Four others were reported by two contributors long bug bounty program Google. One of the most sensitive vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to hijack a PC after installing Firefox, assuming he can locate a file in the Windows root directory in advance. Changes in Firefox 15 features also include new support for v3 standard SPDY, Google protocol designed for safer loading pages.

Memory problems in Firefox corrected

The main advantage of Firefox from Mozilla touted 15 remains the work to fight against memory leaks, including addressing leaks created when the code was not properly cleaned from memory after a task is completed. The navigator had a tendency to slow down as you hours of use ... "We believe that Firefox 15 corrects the vast majority of memory leaks related to add-ons and many users will see drastic improvements in the performance of Firefox and stability," said Mozilla.

According to Net Applications, Firefox users have represented no less than 20.2% of Internet users last month. Editions Windows, Mac and Linux can be downloaded Firefox 15 manually from the Mozilla site. Copies will be installed for their updates automatically. The next version of Firefox is scheduled for October 9.


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