by certifiedbug on October 5, 2011
in Browser
http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/10/03/rapid-release-follow-up/
Update Fatigue. In the past we have been very careful to make sure people know something is changing with their web browser before it changes. We did this to make sure people are aware and in control of what’s happening to their environment. Our position was to err on the side of user notification. Today people are telling us — loudly — that the notifications are irritating and that a silent update process is important. This work is underway. The first set of improvements should appear in the next Firefox release, with more improvements appearing in the next few months. Also, one main reason people are notified of updates is due to incompatible add-ons which will be addressed by the work on add-on compatibility. More details can be found in this blog post: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/mozilla-firefox-and-silent-updates
by certifiedbug on August 15, 2011
in Browser
Tuesday will see the release of Firefox 6.0 eight weeks after the release of 5.0 and less than 5 months after the release of 4.0.
It’s all Google’s fault. Version 1 of Chrome released on December 11, 2008. Here we are, less than 1,000 days later, with version 13 as the stable release. Of course Mozilla is the descendant of Netscape which invented the idea of releasing products formally designated as beta, which Google extended to having some products never leave beta. Together the two have taken any meaning out of version numbers.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Network-admins-stunned-and-reeling-from-repeated-Firefox-upgrades/1313384777?
by certifiedbug on March 1, 2011
in Software
Thunderbird 3.1.8 provides several fixes to improve performance, stability and security.
MFSA 2011-09 Crash caused by corrupted JPEG image
MFSA 2011-08 ParanoidFragmentSink allows javascript: URLs in chrome documents
MFSA 2011-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.14/ 1.9.1.17)
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.8/releasenotes/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird31.html#thunderbird3.1.8
Update from within Thunderbird or download
