” … Add-on signing impacts users and developers to varying degrees. Add-on developers for instance need to submit their add-ons to Mozilla regardless of whether they plan to release it on Mozilla AMO or not.“While it is theoretically possible to skip the submission, it would mean that only Dev and Nightly users can install the add-on as those are the two only channels for which signing is not mandatory. … “ Source: gHacks Tech News Details
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Mozilla released an update to the Firefox 37 branch on Monday, April 20th with the Firefox 37.0.2 release. This update addressed these issues: Google Maps may render incorrectly in some cases Stability fixes for select graphics hardware and feature sets Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory (MFSA) 2015-45: Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization Depending on their update settings, users will be prompted to update within the next 24-48 hours. Users can also manually update by going to the Firefox Help Menu and selecting About Firefox and follow the prompts to update. Alternatively users can also down and manually install the update…
Back in February we mentioned Extension Signing Coming Later in 2015. Recently the Mozilla Add-ons Blog posted a follow up The Case for Extension Signing. There is a lot of interesting information in this article, including this very shocking statistic which puts into prospective just how badly broken the current Mozilla Firefox add-on system is: The Web experienced by tech-savvy developers, however, is not the Web experienced by most people. While only fourteen add-ons hosted on our addons.mozilla.org site have more than a million users, and only two of those have more than 3 million, many tens of millions of users have non-hosted…
“Remember Greasefire? It was an add-on for the Firefox browser that would alert you whenever userscripts were available for sites that you visited in the browser.“The extension used userscripts-org as its source, a site that is no longer available. Since it has not been updated since 2012, it is not working either anymore because of this.“Enter Greasy Scripts, a brand new add-on for Firefox that brings the functionality back to life, albeit in a slightly different form. … “ Source: gHacks Tech News
This seems to be a common error some people encounter with Firefox. First, XPCOM has nothing to do with Windows XP, rather it is Cross Platform Component Object Model. It is a cross-platform component model from Mozilla (more info at Wikipedia). Not sure what causes this error other than a file or files for XPCOM in the main Firefox uninstall some how get removed or corrupted. However, the fix is fairly simple and painless: re-install Firefox. Uninstalling Firefox will NOT remove your profile folder or settings, it simply removes the Firefox browser from your computer. Once you have removed Firefox, (using another browser)…
“… While memory usage has improved significantly in recent years, complaints about it have not stopped. If you browse sites like Reddit for example, you still find user’s complaining about the memory hog Firefox today.“Here are tips to analyze the issue in Firefox“The first thing you should do is run Firefox without add-ons and customizations. Each add-on or extension you install may add to the browser’s memory usage. Some add-ons, like Adblock Plus for example, may use more memory than the browser itself. …” Source: gHacks Tech News
I thought I had done a post earlier in regards to Mozilla Revoking Trust in one CNNIC Intermediate Certificate. Turns out I had not. Also had planned on posting more about this earlier this weekend as Mozilla took further actions against the CNNIC certificate authority on Thursday, April 2nd. I did mention this briefly in the Firefox 37.0.1 Released post, but wanted to take a moment and explain about this in a little more detail. About 2-weeks ago on March 23rd, from the Mozilla Security Blog: China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non-profit organization administrated by Cyberspace Administration of China…
Mozilla released an emergency update to Firefox 37 on April 3, 2015 with Firefox 37.0.1. This update did address start-up crashes due to graphics hardware and third party software. However, there were two security fixes to address a couple recently released Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories (MFSA): MFSA 2015-44 Critical: Certificate verification bypass through the HTTP/2 Alt-Svc header [Firefox 37 Desktop] MFSA 2015-43 High: Loading privileged content through Reader mode [Firefox 37 Android/Firefox 38 Beta (Desktop)] The now disabled HTTP/2 Alt-Svc header aka Opportunistic Encryption For Firefox was introduced in the Firefox 37 from earlier in the week. There has been several security issues/breaches…
Mozilla released the final scheduled update for the Thunderbird 31 branch on Tuesday, March 31 with Thunderbird 31.6.0. Release notes. Users may be prompted to update to the newest release of Thunderbird or can do so manually within Thunderbird by going to Help > About Thunderbird and following the update prompts. Users may also manually download and install the Thunderbird update via the getthunderbird.com site. The next scheduled update for the Thunderbird will be May 12, 2015 with Thunderbird 38.0.