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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.6. Download it or update from within the program (Help > Check for Updates).

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 email client has lots of new features and fixes. Download from the previous link or updates from within the program. See the Release Notes for more info.

Download CCleaner (slim)

CCleaner v2.33.1184
* Added support for Flock 3.0.
* Improved database compacting to only run when needed.
* Improved Index.dat files cleaning for IE8 to include IECompatCache, IETldCache, PrivacIE folders.
* Improved accuracy of cleaning status messages.
* Improved localization and language support.
* Improved UI text formatting for Cleaner screen.
* Fixed Startup Tool double-clicking behavior on Win9x.
* Minor improvements to Registry Cleaner on Windows 7.
* Added Kurdish translation.

RAMMap v1.1: This update to RAMMap, a memory analysis utility for Windows Vista and Windows 7, adds the ability to purge working sets and memory manager paging lists. This can be useful for measuring the memory usage of applications after they’ve started or when specific features are exercised.

Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Download it or update from within the program (Help > Check for Updates).

Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.
Firefox 3.6.4 also fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:
* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.

Download Thunderbird 3.0.5 or update from within the program (Help > Check for updates).

What’s New in Thunderbird 3.0.5
* This release improves the performance of indexing messages and accessing profiles stored on a network.
* This release also improves the unread email notification on Mac OS X.
* Several fixes to the user interface.

Autoruns v10.01: This fixes a bug in the Registry jump-to function for HKCU registry paths.

Microsoft (Sysinternals) freeware apps updated including Autoruns v10, Process Explorer v12.04, and Sigcheck v1.7.
See this Sysinternals blog post for download and info.