RSSFirefox 3.0.9 is publicly available, announcement to come
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published April 21, 2009, 12:26 PM
After a weekend of stability testing, version 3.0.9 -- the latest security update to the Firefox 3.0 browser series -- can now be downloaded. As usual, Mozilla isn't making the new version's release public for at least another day, so if you select Check for Updates from the Help menu, you won't see the new version just yet, though you can download it from Fileforum and install it manually without problems.
When the company releases its list of addressed security issues -- perhaps as soon as tomorrow -- expect a larger than normal list. Among the general bugs the organization is addressing is one we've experienced ourselves, especially since many of us use Firefox for communicating with our Betanews CMS: Submitting data content in large forms can sometimes be a real bear, and we've noticed this since version 3.0.7. This issue, among others, has apparently been addressed and fixed.
Spanish version from:
http://download.mozilla....3.0.9&os=win?=es-ES
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|Wow! Excellent choice for the title of this article! ;-)
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|# Fixed several security issues.
# Fixed several stability issues.
# Many users experienced an issue where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to “lose” its stored cookies. (bug 470578)
# Fixed an issue where, starting with Firefox 3.0.7, inline attachments on popular webmail services (like AOL and AIM) would not display. (bug 482659)
# Large forms would sometimes take a long time to submit. (bug 426991)
# In certain cases, new windows would not have proper focus. (bug 446568)
full list: https://bugzilla.mozilla...1.9.0.9+verified1.9.0.9
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|This is getting insane...
Too many versions. Start patching instead of forcing a complete upgrade every time you find a vulnerability, people. I am getting so tired of installing a new version of this browser seemingly every week. Learn to patch.
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|Erm... what? They do patch if you use the 'Check for Update' feature (when it's found a new version, obviously).
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|Not...
It doesn't patch the existing install, it downloads the new version and installs it over the previous.
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|Not the whole ~7MB installer, but only the parts that have changed which is usually around 1/2MB (unless the 'patch' ****s up, in which case it does go for the whole installer).
What more do you want? I'm intrigued by what you think is a better solution.
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|Anything that doesn't make me wait a freaking minute to get into the dang thing. I work on a lot of different PC's, and getting this weekly annoyance several times over is verging on ridiculous.
Update in the background, none of this "please wait while Firefox annoys the hell out of you" BS.
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|It IS updating in the background.
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|*LAUGHING*
Since when does a background process stop you from actually *using* the program. Download the updates in the background, when the browser is closed, move the updated files to the existing installation. This isn't really rocket science, guys. No need to annoy the users to keep them up to date.
...hell, even Microsoft can do it.
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|What are you talking about? Auto-Update works silently in the background & only downloads what it needs to (i.e. NOT the whole installer).
All you have to do is restart Firefox to apply the update.
If Auto-Updates was a separate process people'd be moaning about bloatware.
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|"All you have to do is restart Firefox to apply the update."
...and then wait a minute for it to clean up, install, or whatever the hell it does while it's telling to to wait while it's updating.
Hardly seems "in the background" to me.
Give me a background updater, call it bloat, whatever...I have resources to spare for a friggin weekly update.
Hell, even do it while it's closing instead of waiting for the next time you open it... I can deal with that. Just like hibernating... Close it and do something else. No big... but waiting for it to do it just after I've tried to start it is absurd...I want to *do* something online...that's why I opened it...not sit and wait for the update to complete.
(Background: I have several virtual machines on this system. When it does this, I end up watching it do this 4 or five times before the day is up. While I am certain this poses only a minimum of annoyance to most, it drives me crazy when there are so many other ways it could be done better)
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|Eh? It downloaded only 1 MB for me. Last time, it was smaller than that.
The only time it's different for me is on Ubuntu Linux and that's because the Canonical people don't have the update function working.
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|PC_Tool, I agree with you absolutely. Heck I'm seriously considering going back to IE6, at least you know where you are with IE6.
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|Way to go Mozilla. You are putting out new versions as frequent as Microsoft releases security updates now. LOL
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|WTF? These are more like updates! They aren't new VERIONS! And it seems they actually work pretty hard to keep your FF updated all the time! Stop whining since you aren't forced to update!
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|beat letting users dry with known security threat. Of course also beat hiding the security thread and pretend its not there.
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|First again! Way to go Scott! I bet the other software news sites are envious of the quickness with which you post these releases. Heck, sometimes even Mozilla doesn't post these until 2-3 days after you!
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