keropsupport.blogg.se

1. FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 UPDATE
2. FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 PATCH
3. FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 SOFTWARE
4. FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 MAC

Follow Gregg on Twitter at on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. The next version of Firefox is scheduled to ship April 24.

FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 UPDATE

Users running Firefox 4 or later will be offered the upgrade through the browser's own update mechanism.

FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 MAC

Windows, Mac and Linux editions of Firefox 11 can be downloaded manually from Mozilla's site.

To replace Firefox 3.6 - which many enterprises retained when they balked at upgrading every six weeks - the company has rolled out Firefox ESR, or Extended Support Release, a version that receives only security updates during its 54-week lifespan. we encourage our remaining Firefox 3.6 users to upgrade to a modern Firefox," said Nightingale. "We don't plan to make further updates to the Firefox 3.6 product. Mozilla calls such unexpected updates of critical bugs "chemspills." Yesterday, in notes from a Wednesday planning meeting, Mozilla said, "Firefox 3.6.28 is our last planned 3.6 update (emphasis in original)."īetween now and April 24 - the scheduled ship date for Firefox 12 - Mozilla will only release fixes to 3.6 if it uncovers critical issues, said Johnathan Nightingale, senior director of Firefox engineering, in an email reply to questions. Mozilla's advisories were unclear on the exact number.įirefox 3.6 is on the verge of support retirement.

FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 PATCH

Mozilla also released Firefox 3.6.28, the latest security update for the two-year-old browser, to patch five or six vulnerabilities. Mozilla classified the bug as a "memory safety problem" in JavaScript's "array.join" function.

FIREFOX FIREFOX 3.6.28 SOFTWARE

Iozzo and Pinckaers rode that exploit to take Pwn2Own's $30,000 second-place prize.Īccording to Mozilla's security advisory, the Iozzo/Pnickaers vulnerability had been discovered earlier by Firefox software engineer Jeff Walden. It turned out that Mozilla already knew of the vulnerability exploited by researchers Vincenzo Iozzo and Willem Pinckaers on Pwn2Own's last day, March 9. The delay, which Mozilla announced last Monday morning and nixed later the same day, was necessary, said Mozilla, to patch a Firefox bug unveiled at the Pwn2Own hacking contest. Before the scheme's January debut, Microsoft had asked users for their permission before upgrading IE from one version to the next, even if Windows' automatic update service was enabled.Īlso this week, Mozilla released Firefox 11 with patches for 12 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated "critical."įor a short time, Firefox 11 faced a launch delay that would have broken Mozilla's perfect record of meeting release deadlines since it switched to an every-six-week pace last year. Microsoft has also jumped on the silent update bandwagon: In December 2011, it announced it would automatically upgrade Internet Explorer (IE) to the newest browser suitable for each version of Windows. Firefox silent updating would let Mozilla deploy emergency security fixes - it calls those "chem spills" - without bothering users, and potentially push more users to each new version.