Just Released October 10th Thunderbird ESR 10.0.8 Thunderbird 16 October 9th Thunderbird 16.0.1 Thunderbird 17 Beta (17.0b1)* Coming Soon Thunderbird 18 Earlybird (18.0a2)* Future Releases November 20th Thunderbird ESR 10.0.9 Thunderbird ESR 17.0 Thunderbird 17 Thunderbird 18 Beta (18.0b1)* Thunderbird 19 Earlybird (19.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.
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Just Released October 9th Firefox 16.0 Firefox for Android 16 Firefox 10.0.8 ESR October 10th Firefox for Android 16.0.1 October 11th Firefox 16.0 Firefox 17 Beta (17.0b1)* Coming Soon Firefox 18 Aurora (18.0a2)* Future Releases November 20th Firefox 17.0 Firefox for Android 17 Firefox 10.0.9 ESR Firefox 17.0 ESR Firefox 18 Beta (17.0b1)* Firefox 19 Aurora (18.0a2)* * 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 several days. See the Wiki for more details.
Mozilla has pushed out an update to Thunderbird 16 to address some security issues associated with the most Firefox 16 release earlier this week. Existing Thunderbird 16 users can update via Help > About Thunderbird or downloading and manually installing via the getthunderbird.com site.
Mozilla identified some security vulnerabilities with Firefox 16, released earlier this week. The 16.0.1 update addresses said vulnerabilities. Firefox 15 users are not affected by these vulnerabilities. Another update, Firefox 16.0.2 is still being evaluated as Mozilla is still determining the full scope of the window load handler failure issue which causes some add-ons not to load when a new window (not tab) is opened. Existing Firefox 16 users can updated to 16.0.1 via Help > About Firefox or download and install Firefox 16.0.1 manually via the getfirefox.com site.An update for Firefox 16.0.1 for Android has already been pushed out to Google Play Store.
On October 10th, 2012, Mozilla released Thunderbird 16. New in this release: Added box.com to the list of online storage services that are available for use with Thunderbird Filelink Silent, background updates Various updates and secuirty fixes Existing Thunderbird users should be offered the update shortly or can do so manually either by going to Help > About Thunderbird and following the prompts or downloading and installing Thunderbird 16 via the getthunderbird.com site. Lighting Users: Since Lightning add-on is tied to each specific version of Thunderbird, you will be prompted to update Lightning when Thunderbird restarts after the update. Thunderbird 10.08esr…
” … The update is rated ‘Critical’ by Adobe, and was given the highest deployment priority rating for Windows users. Adobe is not aware of any exploits targeting the vulnerabilities, which impact Adobe Flash Player 11.4.402.278 and earlier for Windows, version 11.4.402.265 and earlier for Macs and version 11.2.202.238 and earlier for Linux. The update also impacts Flash Player 11.1.115.17 and earlier on Android 4.x versions and 11.1.111.16 and earlier on Android 3.x and 2.x. …” Source: eweek.com/security More Adobe Patches Flash Player in Massive Security Update
” …Firefox 16 for Android features a new Reader Mode which works a lot like Reader mode in Apple’s Safari web browser. Once a web page is loaded, you should see a little book icon in the location bar. Tap it and Firefox will reload the web page with black text, a white background, and not much else…” Source: Liliputing More Firefox 16 brings Reader mode to mobile, web apps to desktop Go get it.
Don’t know much at this time other than Mozilla did not push out the expected Thunderbird 16 release today. I hopefully will get some more info later tonight or tomorrow.
From the Firefox Add-ons Blog comes this alert: The problem is that the window load event handler that many add-ons depend on isn’t fired under some circumstances. So far it appears that this only happens when a popup window is opened, and only in cases where the domain in the new window is different from the one that opened the window. Since most add-on scripts rely on the load handler being called, many of them will not work in the newly opened popup window. There’s more information about this in bug 799348. Depending on the scale of this issue (how many…
Mozilla has released an update for Firefox on October 9, 2012 with Firefox 16 for desktop and Android users. There are several fixes and updates in this version. However, most notable for desktop users is improvements to JAVA Script related to incremental garbage collection. This should hep reduce (and possibly eliminate) the dreaded ‘unrepresentative script’ warning.Bill McCloskey wrote about this feature: The basic purpose of the garbage collector is to collect memory that JavaScript programs are no longer using. The space that is reclaimed can then be reused for new JavaScript objects. Garbage collections usually happen every five seconds or so. Prior to incremental GC landing,…