Just Released January 8th Firefox 18 Firefox for Android 18 Firefox 17.0.2esr January 10th Firefox 19 Beta (19.0b1) January 11th Firefox 20 Aurora (20.0a2) Coming Soon February 19th Firefox 19 Firefox for Android 19 Firefox 17.0.3 ESR Firefox 20 Beta (20.0b1)* Firefox 21 Aurora (21.0a2)* Future Releases April 2nd Firefox 20 Firefox for Android 20 Firefox 17.0.4 ESR Firefox 21 Beta (21.0b1)* Firefox 22 Aurora (22.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by…
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*Developmental Build* Firefox 19 Beta (desktop only) was made available for testing on Thursday, January 10th. A new feature introduced with Firefox 19 is a native PDF viewer which eliminates the need for third-party plugins for a smoother and more secure browsing experience. The timing of this perfect with the news about vulnerabilities in the Foxit PDF Plugin earlier on Thursday. For more detailed information about Firefox 19 Beta, please see the release notes. Users can download and test Firefox 19 Beta from here. Firefox 19 will be released on Tuesday, February 19th. *Developmental Build*
Java Release 7 Update 11 (released January 13, 2013) fixes this issue. More info here. In response to the recent news about the major vulnerability found in Java 7 Update 10, Mozilla has enabled click to play for recent versions of Java on all platforms (Java 7u9, 7u10, 6u37, 6u38). This is being done automatically for users who are using Firefox 17 or newer. The Click To Play feature ensures that the Java plugin will not load unless a user specifically clicks to enable the plugin. This protects users against drive-by exploitation, one of the most common exploit techniques used to compromise vulnerable users….
Starting with Firefox 20, the ‘Esc’ key will no longer stop a page from loading or stop animated GIFs from animating. This change goes back to November of 2010 with Bug 614304 (ESC key aborts XMLHttpRequest and WebSocket). Without getting into too much technical details, pressing the Esc key can cause major problems for sites that use Web Apps that are coded in Ajax or use jQuerry. With the growing popularity and number of web apps came a great number of users accidentally hitting the escape key. So effective with Firefox 20 the Esc key will no longer stop anything, it simply won’t…
Due to Mozilla skipping the 17.0.1esr branch for Thunderbird, automatic updates to this version will not work at this time. Users have two options, download and manually install Thunderbird 17.0.2esr over 17.0.0esr or wait until February 19th when Thunderbird 17.0.3esr will be released with a patch to address this update issue. Note: This does not affect the regular (non-organization) version of Thunderbird. User can auto-update from Thunderbird 17.0.0 to 17.0.2 via Help > About Thunderbird and clicking the Check for updates button.
Note: Yes, the post title is suppose to be that way. This is a ‘fix’ to fix the ‘fix’ in Firefox 18 which wasn’t fixed. Back in September we first talked about Close Other Tabs Warning being displayed even if the user had ‘turned off’ the warning in the options. In late October we posted an update that a ‘fix’ was suppose to land with Firefox 18. I had pretty much forgotten about this issue as I don’t use the ‘Close other tabs’ option in Firefox. Firefox 18 came out earlier this week and on the release post Cheryl commented “The…
Java Release 7 Update 11 (released January 13, 2013) fixes this issue. More info here. ” The latest Java version, Java 7 Update 10 contains a critical security vulnerability which is reportedly already being used for large scale cyberattacks. Users who have Java installed on their computers should deactivate the Java plugin in their browsers without delay. …” Source: The H Security: News and Features More Dangerous vulnerability in latest Java version
10 January 2013 ” Foxit Reader installs the browser plugins for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari by default. “ Source: The H Security: News and Features More Current Foxit Reader can execute malicious code
Although I do not use Trend Micro my Cisco router blacklist evidently does as I was one of notifiers.Since I refer/link to his site all the time I thought I should put this up. “I received a couple of emails in the past five days that informed me that this site’s newsletter and later on the site were blocked by Trend Micro. The message that site visitors received was troubling. Trend Micro claimed that every page of the site was a “dangerous page” and that the company has confirmed that the website can “transmit malicious software or has been involved…
Due to the changes in the development plans for Thunderbird announced last year, Mozilla has changed the numbering scheme of future Thunderbird releases. Most of us were expecting to see Thunderbird 18 (built off of Gecko 18) released on January 8th, but instead were updated to 17.0.2 version. Future Thunderbird releases for the most part are going to be maintenance updates and not actually being built off a new version of Gecko has been the case since the introduction of RapidRelease back in May 2011. The numbering is now going to follow that of The Thunderbird ESR (extended support release) aka Thunderbird for Organizations which…