As I hinted earlier, I am in the process of putting together another Firefox Year in Review as well as The Blog Year in Review. Just like last year, The Firefox Year In Review will be released on Christmas (December 25th) Day. However, last year I posted the Blog Year in Review over a couple days. This year I will be publishing these articles throughout the month of December. The first post should be out sometime this weekend and the final post on New Years Day. Each Blog Year in Review post will have a link (where applicable) to the…
November 27, 2007
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As am I preparing to start the Firefox Year in Review along with the Blog Year in Review posts, I came across an interesting prediction I made in my Open-Source Predictions For 2007 post: (Ryan Wagner, CyberNet News) “I don’t think most people are going to switch to Windows Vista until it comes pre-installed on their PC’s.” I have to agree with Ryan here, the only way I will ever get Vista is if I buy a new PC with Vista pre-installed or if Mozilla were to stop support for WinXP (could happen with Firefox 4 in late 2008), but…
Firefox 2.0.0.10 was released on Monday, November 26th. The following HIGH (Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.) impact security issues were fixed in this build: MFSA 2007-39 Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition MFSA 2007-38 Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10) MFSA 2007-37 jar: URI scheme XSS hazard Users should get automatic notification of the new version within the next 48-hours. Alternatively users can upgrade sooner by either going to the Help Menu and selecting Check For Updates…or downloading Firefox 2.0.0.10…
Reminder: Due to Day Light Savings time ending and my work schedule, I am not be able to get the meeting notes posted until the following Tuesday. Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.10 : Target Ship Date: Monday – November 26th Fixes the jar: protocol bugs Fx3.0 m9/b1 – Released: Tuesday, November 20th Fx 3.0/Gecko 1.9 Beta 2- Code Freeze: December 7th This date will make or break planned Beta 2 release by the end of the year Places Organizer updates landed, history/tags/unfiled bookmarks Endcaps are dead, long live minimal UI Gathering feedback from B1 Autocomplete…