Secure FireFox 3.6

dogmaryxx

Update now to FF 3.6.2 to fix known security problems.


http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Mozilla-Firefox-Final-Download-5787.html

kwikbreaks

FireFox seems to be losing its reputation for quality coding - there have been several emergency vulnerability fixes recently.

oliver45_2

dogmaryxx wrote: »

Update now to FF 3.6.2 to fix known security problems.


http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Mozilla-Firefox-Final-Download-5787.html

Is it a stable release?

turbobob

Are the German government going to warn people to change browser each time a new vulnerability is found? Its going to cause more problems than it'll fix if people listen to their advice IMO.

fermi

oliver45 wrote: »

Is it a stable release?

Stable 3.6.2 is available from:

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Why do people post download links that are not official mozilla ones?

The now stable 3.6.2 is just the 3.6.2 RC build 3 that has been in QA for a while. Just released early that's all.

fermi

Presumably this release has also been pushed to the update channel, so....

Help >> Check for updates

should work for an upgrade on Windows.

jacktyler

fermi wrote: »

Presumably this release has also been pushed to the update channel, so....

Help >> Check for updates

should work for an upgrade on Windows.

thanks, i just updated via this method.

kwikbreaks

fermi wrote: »

Why do people post download links that are not official mozilla ones?

There's no real need for any if you've set up FF to automatically download updates - they get applied when you restart it anyway.

I did find the post handy though - it told me that the fix had been made available so I restarted FF.

oliver45_2

fermi wrote: »

Stable 3.6.2 is available from:

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Why do people post download links that are not official mozilla ones?

The now stable 3.6.2 is just the 3.6.2 RC build 3 that has been in QA for a while. Just released early that's all.

Thanks for the updates. 3.5 version is crashing often. Let me try 3.6.

daedana

Firefox is getting into the same place where IE has been for a long time. It become just too popular and too large to maintain and to keep it at the edge of the techtide. This is my opinion.

I prefer Google Chrome right now, but we will see just how this goes. It could be the next browser that's broken.

kwikbreaks

FireFox has a number of faults -

• memory usage
• problems restarting with same tags open

are the ones I see most often.

I haven't had it crash or hang recently but have seen strange behaviour - yesterday it started opening all links in a popup window for no know reason - a restart of FireFox fixed it.

The last release they annoyed me by changing the default behaviour for where newly opened tabs appear - only way to fix it is by using a rather arcane tweak in about:config

There is a lot not to like of late but the ability to use add-ons means I'll almost certainly stick with it for a while yet.