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Firefox 3.0.3 required and underway
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From: Mike Beltzner
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:38:37 -0400
Local: Wed, Sep 24 2008 9:38 pm
Subject: Firefox 3.0.3 required and underway
Hey everyone,
Shortly after releasing Firefox 3.0.2 our QA and Support teams began seeing reports of problems certain users were having with the Firefox Password Manager. This was being caused by non-ASCII data (in domains, logins or passwords) saved as something other than UTF-8 failing to convert back to Unicode (see bug 454708) which was a regression from a fix to make the Password Manager work on IDN sites with characters over U+0100 (see bug 451155).
The symptom is that users who have password data stores with non-ASCII data saved as something other than UTF-8 (more common for people who have saved passwords on IDN domains or non en-US domains) will not be able to access their saved passwords or create any new saved passwords. There is no permanent dataloss, the saved data is just inaccessible. While this doesn't affect all Firefox users, it is a significant regression and has triggered a fast-release Firefox 3.0.3 which will contain a single fix for this issue. Once released, this will restore the functionality for all users.
The fix has been landed and tested, and builds are coming out and being delivered to QA today. We hope to be releasing updates on the beta channel by early next week and issuing a release soon thereafter.
cheers,
mike |
