Firefox 7 reaches beta, promises faster browsing

Mozilla released yesterday a beta of Firefox 7, putting the lighter-weight browser in front of a large number of users for the first time.

According to Mozilla, Firefox 7 uses significantly less memory than Firefox 4 through Firefox 6, cutting consumption by as much as 50 percent .

You can download the beta version here

Rails 2.3.14, 3.0.10 and 3.1.0-rc6 Released

The Rails developers have pushed out three new releases in tandem to fix the same security vulnerabilities. All three major branches have been covered. The vulnerabilities include:

• SQL injection vulnerability
• A way for attackers to render a view without first calling the corresponding action
• A XSS vulnerability in the strip_tags helper
• Another XSS vulnerability, this time having to do with the UTF8 parsing code

It's recommended that everyone upgrade, as the SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities can be particularly damaging.