Yesterday Mozilla rolled out a security and stability update for Firefox 3, including fixes for two Critical bugs and they also fixed “several stability issues.” Firefox 3.0.2 is compatible with the JAWS 7.10 screen reader (Windows only), which is good for people with vision difficulties, and is now available in even more languages.
Updated 7:39a Saturday, 27 September: Late yesterday Mozilla did a whiplash-causing quick turnaround and pushed out Firefox 3.0.3. It seems this new version is solely to fix bug 454708 – storage-Legacy can throw when calling ConvertToUnicode, which is geek-speak for being unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords, according to the release notes. I’m curious to hear how this slipped past the tester’s notice, especially since the update came less than 48 hours after 3.0.2 came out. I’ve already gotten the notice that the update was available from Mozilla. (Remember, I use their code rather than Ubuntu’s package, although the Update Manager told me they have the update as well.)
Full details on the update are available in the release notes, as well as on Marco Zehe’s blog. Users of Firefox 3 should have already been notified of the update through the Automatic Update mechanism, and if not you can force an update check via Help > Check for updates… Ubuntu users should also be receiving the update via the Update Manager soon if you haven’t gotten it already.
For users of Firefox 2 remember that Mozilla will no longer support Firefox 2 with security and stability updates after 12 December, so if you’re among the minority that hates the changes in Firefox 3 with the heat of a thousand nuns you only have a few months left of updates before you’ll be using an obsolete program.
