Une vulnérabilité spécifique à Windows, qui permettait d'exécuter des programmes malveillants à partir d'URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) malformés, a aussi été colmatée. Mise à jour recommandée.

What's New in Firefox 2.0.0.8

Release Date:
October 18, 2007

Security Update:
The following security issues were fixed.
MFSA 2007-36 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)

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Support:
Firefox 2.0.0.8 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins.
New Languages:
Official releases for Georgian (ka) and Romanian (ro) are now available. Beta release for Kurdish (ku) is also available for testing.