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October 22, 2007

Netscape, Camino Web Browsers Receive Updates

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They may not be Safari or Firefox, but everyone has a favorite alternate browser, a catch-all for when their usual system of choice looks at a web page and then shrugs its digital shoulders.

Recently, both Camino and Netscape X 9.0 received version updates.

Camino, developed by The Camino Project, was recently updated to version 1.5.2. The new version, a 14.9 megabyte download, adds the following changes and new features:
-Upgraded to version 1.8.1.8 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
-Large download lists and corrupt site icons will no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows.
-When viewing the source of a frame, Camino now uses cached data instead of requesting the frame again.
-When JavaScript code wants to focus a minimized window, Camino now properly restores the window from the Dock.
-Pages which perform actions when the tab or window is closed now function properly.
-Camino no longer adds site icons for local files to the site icon cache.
-Upgraded the "Block flash animations" code to use Flashblock 1.5.4.1.
-Upgraded the bundled Java Embedding Plugin to version 0.9.6.3.
-Improved ad-blocking.

Netscape X 9.0.0.1 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later to run.

Perhaps more widely used, Netscape X 9.0.0.1, a 16.9 megabyte download, incorporates the following security fixes to bring it up to par with Firefox 2.0.0.8:
-URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows.
-MFSA 2007-35 XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object.
-MFSA 2007-34 Possible file stealing through sftp protocol.
-MFSA 2007-33 XUL pages can hide the window titlebar.
-MFSA 2007-32 File input focus stealing vulnerability.
-MFSA 2007-31 Browser digest authentication request splitting.
-MFSA 2007-30 onUnload Tailgating.
-MFSA 2007-29 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8).

Netscape X 9.0.0.1 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later to run.

If you've tried the new versions and have any kind of feedback, positive or negative, let us know in the comments or forums.

Posted by chrisbarylick at October 22, 2007 11:35 AM
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