Friday, October 7, 2011

Firefox and Chrome users, get your security updates

Bad security problems in both Firefox and Chrome.

Firefox seems to do a great job of downloading the updates automagically.  You can tell if you need the update, but going to the "Help -> About Firefox" menu.  If you have a version before 7.0, 6.0, or 3.6.23 (Linux), then you should restart the browser.  If it's still an older version, go to Mozilla for a new version ("Download now").

Chrome also updates itself pretty automagically.  The tool icon (looks like a wrench) has an "About Chrome" option.  If you're before 14.9.835.202, you need to update.  The Tools -> Update Google Chrome" menu will take care of it - and will tell you if it's already downloaded the update.  Nice.

Quite frankly, this is a big reason that I don't like Internet Explorer.  IE waits for Patch Tuesday to update, instead of updating on the fly.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the notice. I'm in my Windoze 7 partition for now and was running Firefox 5

    Thinking about ditching Ubuntu and just going back to Windoze. Everything is written for Windoze because every thing is written for Windoze. I know, oldest story there is.

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  2. I believe that Chrome version is 14.0, not 14.9, but other than that, what you said. Normally I wouldn't bother to say anything, but I don't want people looking for something that isn't there.

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