October 1, 2004

If you're on Firefox, update your product now

Here's why

If you aren't running the Preview Release, you need to update to 0.10.1 right now for security reasons.

If you are, the page above offers an XPI to update your Firefox 0.10 (aka PR 1.0) build.

Posted by WeirdAl at October 1, 2004 9:24 PM
Comments

Why is Firefox (seemingly) less secure than the Mozilla suite?

http://secunia.com/product/3256/ 13 Advisories

Versus

http://secunia.com/product/3691/ 7 Advisories

(From Alex: I don't know. Ask the Mozilla Foundation's crew.)

Posted by: Anon at October 1, 2004 11:09 PM

Hm the links on the info page link to files in folder for 0.10 release. And shouldn't the red icon show in the LOWER right corner?

(From Alex: Actually, the XPI patches 0.10 up to version 0.10.1, while the full download points to 0.10.1. As for the red icon: ask the Mozilla Foundation. I'm just telling you, you need this update.)

Posted by: Jure Repinc at October 1, 2004 11:11 PM

Is it necessary to restart Firefox after letting it update itself? The update message didn't say one way or the other.

(From Alex: Honestly, I don't know that, as I didn't create the XPI used to do the update. I would suggest restarting.)

Posted by: starwed at October 1, 2004 11:23 PM

What if I use the latest nightly build?

(From Alex: The latest Firefox nightlies are protected, but I strongly recommend you make it a nightly from Oct. 1 or later.)

Posted by: elzapp at October 2, 2004 3:00 AM

Heh!
From reading the Google cache, I could see which weblog entrie you removed. I had already seen that bug before, but I hadn't the slightest idea it was a security issue.

(From Alex: You know, when I first filed it, neither did I. I'll be talking about this in detail on another weblog entry you'll see filed tomorrow.)

Posted by: Martijn at October 3, 2004 1:37 PM