Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release. It’s strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7
- Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
- Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
- Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
- Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
- Other stability and security fixes