Firefox 16.0.2 released to address critical security vulnerabilities

Mozilla has released Firefox 16.0.2 to address critical security vulnerabilities in Firefox’s location object which identified as "CVE-2012-4194". These vulnerabilities can be combined with some plugins to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on users.

Firefox 16.0 contains a number of performance improvements and many new features. Firefox 16 makes developing for the Web faster and easier with a new Developer Command Line. This new tool provides easy keyboard control over Firefox Developer Tools and is intuitive, completing commands and parameters for you.

In addition, Firefox 16.0 unprefixes a number of stable features including: CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms, Image Values, IndexedDB and Values and Units. Firefox 16.0 also unprefixes Battery API and Vibration API, two Web APIs that Mozilla helped create.

Download Firefox 16.0.2:
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you:

• Download Firefox 16.0.2 (All Systems & Languages)
• Download Firefox 16.0.2 for Windows (32-bit)

Firefox 16.0.2 running on Windows 8

What's new in Firefox 16.0.2?
Firefox 16.0.2 fixes the following issue:

Fixed:

• MFSA 2012-90 Fixes for Location object issues. [Critical]

Source:

• Firefox 16.0.2 Release Notes.
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