If you must, then make what you consider an informed decision not to use it. Don’t shoot the messenger – but if you do switch to Linux, don’t forget about anti-virus. (I’m trying to say just switch to some sort of Linux without using the L-word.) ![]() If you’ve still got Leopard systems to worry about – at least, if you look after systems that are stuck on 10.5 because Apple itself disowned them, meaning you can’t upgrade OS X, let alone your applications – then you might as well jump ship.Ĭonsider migrating to an operating system distro that still makes technical and security sense on your hardware. In the words of Alex Keybl, Release Management Team Lead, “After a five year run, it’s time for a big cat nap.” Unless you’re on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).įrom today, as originally announced back in February, Firefox on the Mac is available only for OS X 10.6 and later. Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruptionĪs usual these days, browser updates are one of those actions for which we generally recommend that you “just do it”. Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues ![]() Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (19 listed bugs)īuffer overflow while rendering GIF imagesĬrash when combining SVG text on path with CSSĬSS and HTML injection through Style Inspector Six of these are considered critical because they patch vulnerabilities that the development team are treating as remotely exploitable: Advisory This time there are 16 bundles of fixes that get their own Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory (MFSA) pages. Before that you need to go back to version 10 for a routine update that itself needed an update.) ![]() (The previous version, 16, was the exception that proves the rule, of course, with three critical patches emitted in two post-dot-zero updates, 16.0.1 and 16.0.2. This ought, in theory, to be faster, safer and much more efficient. Bugs can be fixed and new features introduced without the need for two flavours of release process. With Firefox on a rapid release cycle, like Chrome and many other modern software projects, x.0.1 and x.0.2 updates are increasingly rare. The new version fixes an officially-listed 2365 bugs, from 770056 (tab bar background does not change when window goes inactive) to 636245 (Device Manager window size is hardcoded in XUL).
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