Firefox Flaw Leads to Upgrade Encore

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Firefox Flaw Leads to Upgrade Encore

A week after being told to update their browsers to fix security holes, Mozilla Firefox users are facing another upgrade in order to patch what the current version broke.

Over the weekend, developers released test builds of Firefox 1.0.6, an upgrade slated to replace a security release introduced last week.

Mozilla Foundation officials said Version 1.0.6 should be available for download within the next few days.

The sudden rush to update Firefox again resulted from the discovery of unintentional API flaws in Firefox 1.0.5, which have caused some incompatibility between the open-source browser and Web-based applications, Web content and software extensions, said Chris Hofmann, Mozilla's director of engineering.

"It's a very small percentage of Firefox users that are affected by this directly, but there is a growing number of people building applications, content and extensions that rely on the platform," Hofmann said.

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