The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox. Despite not being featured on the Firefox homepage the files have all been uploaded to the Mozilla FTP site. English versions of Linux, Macintosh and Windows versions are available. For those of you that just can't wait until something official is announced, grab the Windows version here and the Linux version here.

Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.4:
- MFSA 2007-17 XUL Popup Spoofing
- MFSA 2007-16 XSS using addEventListener
- MFSA 2007-14 Path Abuse in Cookies
- MFSA 2007-13 Persistent Autocomplete Denial of Service
- MFSA 2007-12 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.12/1.8.1.4)

In related news, this article explains some of the most useful Firefox settings that you can change on your own, and that aren't normally available through the program's graphical interface:

The closest analogy to how Firefox manages its internal settings is the Windows Registry. Each setting, or preference, is given a name and stored as a string (text), integer (number) or Boolean (true/false) value. However, Firefox doesn't keep its settings in the registry, but in a file called prefs.js. You can edit prefs.js directly, but it's often easier to change the settings through the browser window.

Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter, and you'll see all the settings currently enumerated in prefs.js, listed in alphabetical order. To narrow down the hundreds of configuration preferences to just the few you need, type a search term into the Filter: bar. (Click the Show All button or just clear the Filter: bar to get the full list back again.)