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Firefox 3.5.1 update coming this month From the 'but I just downloaded a new version...' files:
Firefox 3.5 has been out for barely two days - but an update is already being planned for later this month. The Firefox 3.5.1 update will fix at least three key bugs that didn't get fixed in time for the official Firefox 3.5 release. According to a Mozilla meeting wiki post : "The goal of this release (3.5.1)should be a quick-turnaround that: fixes topcrashes and bugs we almost held ship for...can be shipped to 3.5 users in mid-to-late july, so narrow scope, small change."Some of the top crash bugs in the upcoming update include one to fix for a bug where Arabic letters are disconnected in edit fields. At present, I personally don't see any major security items that are tagged for the 3.5.1 update, but that is likely to change for a few reasons. One reason is that on July 10th, Mozilla has scheduled a Firefox 3.5 Security Testday. No doubt Mozilla has already tested Firefox 3.5 heavily, but the simple fact of the matter is that you can never do enough testing. "What we're really looking for is people to run through our security test case suite in Litmus,"Anthony Hughes of Mozilla QA wrote in a posting. "These tests have recently been updated and new tests have been created for Firefox 3.5."Another thing that always tends to happen is - though Firefox 3.5 has been in active development for a year, security researchers tend to come out of the woodwork once the release is out. I do not see any 'smoking guns' though - as I did with Microsoft's IE 8 release. At PWN2OWN, a security researcher found a flaw in a pre-release version of IE 8. At the time of the official IE 8 release Microsoft stated that the released browser was not at risk. Yet several months later, IE 8 was patched for the flaw. 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Firefox 3.5.1 update coming this month. TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/8400 |
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