FireFox 3.5.1 was released on July 16th 2009 to fix several security and stability issues. One of the major bug fixes was for a security issue with the software's browser's TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. Mozilla is one of its comments had stated "Just-In-Time" (JIT) compiler used for JavaScript. A crash could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem that could, under certain cases, be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code, like malware”. This release also speeds up launch time on some Windows systems.
Here are some important links for this release
Security Issues fixed in FireFox 3.5.1
List of changes in FireFox 3.5.1
The latest version of FireFox can be downloaded over here
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