For people deploying Firefox in an organization or enterprise, there is a new Extended Support Release that will only receive security updates and really major bug fixes, allowing you to avoid the disruptions that the new agile development schedule has caused.

While not intended for use by individuals, there is nothing that prevents an end-user who finds themselves confused or frustrated by the new release process from using it instead of regular Firefox. Just remember that this version will not be getting any feature updates.

Read about it here:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

Download it from here:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html

Version 2.0 Release Candidate 1, is available for testing:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-2.0.0-rc1/macosx/

I have a stupid question:

Aside from the interface advantages that most feel the earlier version had, in comparing 5.5 to 2.8, have their been any SECURITY changes that would make it wiser to use the newer version?

In other words, is it SAFE to continue using the older 2.8 version? No exploits or security holes have been discovered?

I use both ClamXav and Norton AntiVirus 11 for manual scanning under Leopard. I got NAV for free from my cable internet provider (it was part of Norton Internet Security 4).

One thing I notice is that ClamXav seems to detect email viruses that NAV completely misses. Can someone clarify whether the signatures in NAV for Mac are OS X specific, and do not include Windows viruses? Do you need to purchase the "dual protection" version of NAV in order to get Windows virus signatures included in your scanning?

Is it possible that ClamXav is giving me false positives, or have a missed a configuration setting for NAV?