Mozilla Corp., publisher of the popular Firefox browser, has issued an update for the browser. It patches 10 flaws, of which about 5 were rated critical. We are now up to version 2.0.0.13, as we await the general release of .

Among the flaws fixed by Mozilla are some that could be used to crash , or even run “arbitrary code”. That is geekspeak for seizing control of your computer. The Thunderbird email program, which shares the browser engine with , was not patched, and could therefore be vulnerable.

has five of the bugs that were repaired. Mozilla says they were not able to fix Thunderbird and Firefox simultaneously, so the Thunderbird update will have to wait a few weeks. In the meantime, do not enable JavaScript in .

To update Firefox, launch the browser and click Help, Check for Updates. If you do not have Firefox and would like to try it, go to http://www.mozilla.com/ You can have as many browsers as you want, installed on your computer. They will not conflict with each other.

Business users of Apple’s Leopard operating system seem to be much more satisfied with their computers than users of Windows-based machines, according to a recent survey from ChangeWave Research. Done in February, it found 53% of those using Macs were very satisfied, while only 40% of XP users said the same. A dismal 8% of Vista users allowed that they were very satisfied.

Nevertheless, Apple’s numbers are small. It appears to have only about 7% of the market. Among computers that companies plan to buy in the next three months, 53% will have , 20% will have , and only 8% will have , according to the survey.

Syd Tash is a noted computer security consultant and author of How to Protect Your Computer Online. He has been keeping Internet surfers safe and secure since the last century. Find out how he does it; protect your own computer with five layers of protection right here:
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