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Mozilla Swats Firefox Bug With a Patch
Published December 21st, 2007 in Browser Security, Bugs and Issues, Firefox, Mozilla
Mozilla has issued a fix for a bug found in an update issued earlier this week. Officials at Mozilla said they have released an update to fix a flaw in the recently released 2.0.0.10 version of their Firefox browser. It is the first time ever Mozilla has released two versions of the open-source browser in the same week. When Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.10 Monday, it included a bug in its rendering canvas HTML elements.
Canvas elements allow for dynamic, scriptable rendering of bitmap images in HTML. "The bug affects a specific use case of the Canvas tag, which is not yet in wide use," said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla. "We used our standard process of releasing a beta to tens of thousands of users and had no reports of this issue prior to the full release of 2.0.0.10. Once we became aware of the issue, we worked overtime to address. Mozilla Swats Firefox Bug With a Patch
