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Slackware 14.1 SSA: 2016-117-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Patch

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2016
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Latest Mozilla Firefox updates for Slackware address important security vulnerabilities and enhance overall browser performance.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-38.8.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ (* Security fix *)

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Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating 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 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.1 package: 9f7b7df2a9ac8b23392191299a32745c mozilla-firefox-38.8.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: c1053b7c8d00779811a210b9747715be mozilla-firefox-38.8.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: cc1e4185a3a43c0f93de584f070fa2d9 xap/mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: c2aa5d65ff35417b631b5b7834edbbe1 xap/mozilla-firefox-45.1.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-38.8.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz