[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: firefox-5.0-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8627
2011-06-24 02:47:06
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Name        : firefox
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 5.0
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Summary     : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

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Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 5.0, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories:

* http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html#firefox5

See upstream release notes for more information about this new version:

* http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/

This update ALSO contains a change to the GNOME 3 shell's gjs library, to make it use the standalone js package, to reduce risk of regression.

It also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against the new version of Firefox / XULRunner.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 21 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 5.0-1
- Update to 5.0
* Tue May 10 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 4.0.1-2
- Fixed rhbz#676183 - "firefox -g" is broken
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #676437 - Build gjs against the standalone SpiderMonkey package 'js', not XULRunner's copy
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676437
  [ 2 ] Bug #715188 - Update to Firefox 5.0
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715188
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update firefox' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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