Mozilla slates Firefox 5 update to fix Lion crash bug

10.07.2011

Mozilla has already changed to the new font APIs in the Mac versions of both Firefox 6 and Firefox 7, the next two versions of the browser. Firefox 6, which reached beta status last week, is slated for an Aug. 16 release, while Firefox 7, now currently in what Mozilla calls its "Aurora" channel, is to ship Sept. 27.

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