Firefox 39 Released

[TheGardener]

Update Firefox now! Fix rushed out for an exploit that steals files off your hard drive

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2960...it-that-steals-files-off-your-hard-drive.html

I'd like to, but I've run into a problem.

Firefox seems to want to make life difficult for me. When selecting Options/Help/About, I have an option to update FF from 38.0.5 EME Free to 39.0.3 [unclear if this is the EME Free version]. But as happened last time I tried to update, I receive a pop-up indicating an error that FFis still running. I think this is a false error message. Checking the Window Start Manager reveals that my W7 OS was not running FF.

So it looks like every time I want to update, FF will not recognize the EME Free version. I have to first search for the correct version that I need. I tried to manually download it for installation. 3 times the download failed.

 

[TheGardener]

After trying another 6 times to download the file from Mozilla, I noticed that I had the FF Library open. Closed the Library and the download worked. Install went smoothly.

 

[TechWiz365]

Just found out there was a recently patch for Firefox due to a vulnerability.

Just updated now, thanks for the alert!

 

[postmortemIA]

or use Pale Moon... 😉

 

[Berryracer]

or use Pale Moon... 😉

that's a crappy browser that's incompatible with 10s of popular addons and sites don't display right on it sometimes

 

[Red Squirrel]

Update Firefox now! Fix rushed out for an exploit that steals files off your hard drive

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2960...it-that-steals-files-off-your-hard-drive.html

Holy crap that's a brutally horrible exploit, how does code like that even make it to production in the first place? Doing an apt-get upgrade right now hopefully I get the latest version. Repos are sometimes behind.

 

[ninaholic37]

that's a crappy browser that's incompatible with 10s of popular addons and sites don't display right on it sometimes

I'm using Pale Moon v25.6 for Linux right now and it fixed a lot of "useragent issues" I remember from v25.0. I tried the public beta for v26 with "Goanna" or whatever and the only page I noticed goes back to olden Firefox-3.6-style so far is Google. The two addons I use uBlock Origin and Stylish work in both v25.6 and v26, though I imagine some of yours like IE tab might not (I think it has it's own fork of Adblock called Latitude). It does have the internal PDF viewer disabled by default though, which is think is what postmortemIA was referring to. 😉

 

[Hugh Jass]

or use Pale Moon... 😉

Used to be sound advice...now...not so much.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Update Firefox now! Fix rushed out for an exploit that steals files off your hard drive

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2960...it-that-steals-files-off-your-hard-drive.html

Now if only Waterfox would release a patched update...