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Slackware 12.2: SSA:2009-069-03 Critical Update for Mozilla-Thunderbird

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2009
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Enhance security and browsing on Slackware by updating Mozilla Firefox. Outdated versions are vulnerable to attacks, so follow these steps to upgrade.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.0.7-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to firefox-3.0.7. This fixes some security issues: For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ (* Security fix *)

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Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

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Slackware 12.2 package: e7a2c72ea8200b98203c7b9612391273 mozilla-firefox-3.0.7-i686-1.tgz
Slackware -current package: e7a2c72ea8200b98203c7b9612391273 mozilla-firefox-3.0.7-i686-1.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-3.0.7-i686-1.tgz