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Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.6. This release is a security release. This release fixes the following security issues:
MFSA 2007-27
Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
MFSA 2007-26
Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
You can update it through the browser or you can download it from Mozilla.
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iBloglines team has added the following features to iBloglines and they say it’s still free. I think they might change that to paid subscription later. If you don’t know what iBloglines is, then read here.
New feature

Pin - Save the story for when you get back to your Mac or PC.
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I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 on my laptop on Saturday. It has ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card. I had problem with the Live CD as usual. The X server didn’t work. I had to use the safe graphics mode in Live CD to get it to work. [...]

The CEO of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker has written in her blog about the future of Thunderbird (Check the blog of Scott too). We all knew that Mozilla neglected Thunderbird for a long time and the updates were slow to come. Mozilla is now thinking of spinning Thunderbird as a new non profit organization or a [...]

Digg sucks!!! Digg has entered an agreement with Microsoft that allows Microsoft to be the exclusive provider of display
and contextual advertising on Digg.com. 
The three-year agreement between Microsoft and Digg, provides a boost to
the world’s largest software maker’s efforts to gain a foothold
in the rapidly growing online advertising market.
Microsoft has a similar advertising agreement with [...]

Digg has released Digg Widget, which gives you more choices of what to show and how it’s displayed, when you add it to your website. When news is updated on Digg, it will automatically be displayed on your site, in the format that you choose.
You can get the javascript code by going here and [...]

Acer president Gianfranco Lanci openly attacked Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating(?) system. Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and businesses no reason to buy a new PC.
“The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista,” Lanci said.Despite the long wait between Windows XP and Vista, the latest operating system [...]

Bloglines team has completed the project iBloglines, which lets you access your Bloglines blog from your iPhone (if you have one). More information here.

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I was reading an article in PC World about the security hole in Fox News’s website, when this line struck me.
The Fox News site runs on the Apache Web server software on Ubuntu Linux.
It’s interesting to know that Fox uses Ubuntu Linux.
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The alpha version of the Firefox knowledge base (support) site is online now. The site currently has few articles available under reference, tutorials, How-to, Addons and troubleshooting. You can create an account if you are willing to contribute.
Technorati Tags: Firefox, Knowledge Base, Support, Articles, Tutorials