News Firefox 72 Released

[Chiefcrowe]

Release notes:

Firefox 72.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

www.mozilla.org

Looks like a relatively minor update, but it does seem a bit faster which is always nice.

 

[balloonshark]

Thanks Chiefcrowe. Looks like a safe update. I'll update a little later today.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

They just released a quick new security update in 72.0.1 -

Firefox 72.0.1, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

www.mozilla.org

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Looks like the security issue is more major than I thought:

===CVE-2019-17026: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox===
On 1/8, Mozilla released a security advisory about a vulnerability in the IonMonkey Just-In-Time JavaScript compiler. Although the CVE does not yet have a CVSS score, Mozilla is categorizing this vulnerability as critical. Specially-crafted code could exploit this vulnerability to read otherwise inaccessible locations in memory and code execution. Given that this vulnerability is in the JavaScript engine, this vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious webpage. Mozilla reports that attacks exploiting this vulnerability have been observed in the wild, so this is a 0-day.

 

[balloonshark]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll update when I log out.

 

[PowerEngineer]

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/firefox-security-bug-zero-day/

Already updated when I checked mine.

 

[KiseJing]

Finally, a new security update in 72.0.1

 

[ultimatebob]

It's amazing how difficult it is to change web browsers nowadays. I'm trying to migrate from Chrome to Firefox, and so far I've ran into about a dozen web sites that think I'm an evil hacker and are challenging me with two factor authentication prompts when I log into their sites.

I don't understand the paranoia... it's not like I'm suddenly logging in from a different geographic location or even a different IP address.

 

[balloonshark]

You should also update any firefox forked browsers you have installed. I updated palemoon on both of my computers last night.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Mine just updated to 72.0.2.

 

[balloonshark]

Thanks. Just looks like a few bug fixes.

Firefox 72.0.2, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

www.mozilla.org