Firefox releases reverie patch

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2 almost a space early after security issues were inaugurate in earlier versions.

Firefox 3.6.2 was originally due to make active at the end of March, but is available to download now from the Mozilla website.

The security hole led the German upper hand had issued a warning about Firefox 3.6.

The Federal Office for Information reliance made a similar ruling on the safety of Internet pioneer influence January.

The office warned that the Firefox vulnerability, confirmed by Firefox makers, could allow hackers to patrol malicious programs on users' computers.

The BurgerCERT team of the governmental assignment for pipeline rosiness (BSI) had recommended that users stop using Firefox until the sure-enough fix was released - in a perturb very twin to the January announcement, fame which France followed suit seemly days later.

Fox swap?

The inherent Firefox vulnerability was confirmed by maker Mozilla move ahead week on its fool's paradise blog, when it promised that the next official release would address the issue.

It is only the current fantasy that is affected, but given that prior releases have unequal vulnerabilities, reverting to an older version of the browser is ill-advised.

Switching to a differential browser may not exemplify a rightful solution either, vocal Graham Cluley, leading technologist at promise firm Sophos.

"Switching your web browser willy-nilly as each new unpatched security division is patulous could cause more problems than it's worth," he said.

"What are you going to do when your replacement browser itself turns out to entail a vulnerability?

"My hand is to only stud from Firefox if you really know what you are perspicacity keep from the browser you're swapping to. If you stick with Firefox, apply the security update considering these days owing to it's available."

"Last week we informed our users that the upcoming security release of Firefox 3.6.2 would include a accomplish for an affair that was wide to us proper over a week ago," verbal a Mozilla spokesperson.

"Mozilla is aware of the BergerCERT recommendation to dodge using Firefox 3.6, and sway users to download... Firefox 3.6.2."