Mozilla has issued eight patches for its Firefox Web browser, three of which fix problems classified as critical.The patches come after security experts have recommended using a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and older versions of IE due to a dangerous vulnerability. Microsoft is due to release an emergency patch for that problem Wednesday. Have you upgraded your Firefox install to the latest version yet? This article looks at the security issues that are handled by theses patches. Also this is the last release of updates to Firefox 2.0.

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