Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10 ReleasedTuesday November 27th, 2007The Mozilla Corporation has released Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10, patching three security holes in the world's second most-popular browser. All three flaws, which are detailed in the Firefox 2.0.0.10 section of the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page, are rated as high impact by Mozilla, which is the second most serious of the four vulnerability levels. The first bug is a cross-site scripting flaw in the jar: URI scheme, which may allow an attacker to steal private information (a proof of concept has been published demonstrating how the contacts of logged-in Gmail users can be stolen). Firefox 2.0.0.10 also fixes three stability bugs, which could be exploited to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code. The final issue relates to a race condition when setting the Most existing Firefox users will receive 2.0.0.10 through the browser's built-in software update system or their operating system's upgrade mechanism. The release can also be downloaded from the Mozilla Firefox product page. More information about the new version can be found in the Firefox 2.0.0.10 Release Notes. All the vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.10 are also present in the latest SeaMonkey 1.1.6 release. An equivalent 1.1.7 update for the community-driven browser is expected shortly. Just after the update, no none of my links work. I cannot get to any webpage through the firefox browser. IE still works just fine (shudders), and everything else says I am connected. Restart and a reinstall didn't fix this... ideas? Do you have a firewall or other security software installed on your computer? It's possible that it no longer recognises Firefox as safe because the executable has changed. You may need to re-whitelist it. Alex My 2.0.0.10 auto update from within FF went smoothly, no problem. for me now no ad on works... its only blanko! horrible After the 2.0.0.10 update some webpages now display like PDA versions with limited graphic displays. "New Firefox 2.0.0.11 update on its way" according to: <http://mozillalinks.org/w…-20011-update-on-its-way/> And also according to: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.…rg/show_bug.cgi?id=405584> Where one poster says: "The release of 2.0.0.11 is _tentatively_ scheduled for Friday 30th Nov. If that comes off it'll be the fastest turnaround between Firefox releases to date (ie, it relies on everything in the release process going without a hitch)." Guess something broke in the 2.0.0.10 revision (canvass/drawimage or some such).
FF-2.0.0.11 "stability" update is available now (from the usual places). See: <http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22741> Firefox-2.0.0.11 Just downloaded 2.0.0.11 and don't see any change.................... When opening Home Page in place of Ads I get Quick Time Logo with ? in the center. Some movie clips will not play, get same thing. Also Browser is slower in responding. IE all works well. Have Windows XP SP2 w/ 2.8G RWL When opening Home Page in place of Ads I get Quick Time Logo with ? in the center. Some movie clips will not play, get same thing. Also Browser is slower in responding. IE all works well. What is re-whitelist it ??? RWL I am having a problem with the auto-updater and 2.0.0.10. A couple of days ago when the auto updater tried to install 2.0.0.10 it crashed. Then Windows no longer recognized Firefox as a Win32 program and would not start it. To work around this, I had to manually download 2.0.0.10 again, then manually install it. After that everything worked fine for a couple of days, until the updater downloaded 2.0.0.10 again! Next time I started Firefox the updater tried to install 2.0.0.10 all over, and again crashed with the same results. Fortunately I still had Firefox Setup 2.0.0.10 so the workaround was to rerun the setup. My system is running Windows XP Pro, SP2, on a Compaq SR1650NX with 1 GB of RAM. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 3500+. The system works well with everything else, so I really do not think the problem is with my computer. #13 The Security Center doesn't present a good imageby bjherbison <bj@herbison.com> Sunday December 2nd, 2007 2:39 PM The Mozilla Security Center at <<http://www.mozilla.org/security/>> makes it look like Mozilla doesn't care about security. It currently lists Firefox 2.0.0.8 as the latest security update. (And this isn't the first time that security patch information hasn't been placed there.) To give people confidence in the security of Mozilla products a change needs to be made in the release process to put explicit consideration the Security Center on the list of actions taken. B.J. I don't know what's going on at Mozilla, but what was a fine browser once, is not much more than a pain in the um, neck now. I just have time to put everything back the way it was every time my browser decides it was working too well ( which hasn't been for a while). Opera? It's fast, and Firefox has been bogging down the whole computer. Fire fox, hate to do it, but you gotta go. Any chance that we can get an updated version of FF Image Toolbar that will work with this release? Any chance that we can get an updated version of FF Image Toolbar that will work with this release? |
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