As mentioned in today’s Weekly Update, a serious regression involving Firefox 2.0.0.8 and JAVA (JRE 1.6 update 3)on Windows Vista ONLY has been identified. Bug 400467: Java broken on Vista after Firefox 2.0.0.8 upgrade (says Java Not Found, Or Not Working). Reviewing the bug report, the bug filer had upgraded to Fx 2.0.0.8 earlier that morning and attempted to launch/play a JAVA based game at Pogo.com and was told that they could access the site with IE7. There is a possible work-around for this: Right click Firefox icon and choose “Run as administrator” Accept UAC prompt Enter any site which…
October 22, 2007
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Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.8/Fx 2.0.0.9 Fx 2.0.0.8 Released: Thursday, October 18th Over the weekend there were reports of some serious regressions, for which we are considering a Fx 2009 firedrill We will have an FF 2009 triage meeting today at 2:30 PDT, #2009, x204 We will triage the nominations list here Known Regressions: 391412/400406 – layout regression 400421 – dynamically removing an <area> makes the whole map disappear 400467 – After upgrading to FF 2.0.0.8 Java applets stop working on Vista [Fx 2.0.0.8/JAVA/Vista Issues] 400714 – Flash crashes on Mac have skyrocketed in FF…