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Mozilla slates Firefox 5 update to fix Lion crash bug

'Out-of-band' update only for Mac users

By Gregg Keizer
July 10, 2011 03:49 PM ET
Computerworld - Mozilla on Friday said it would update Firefox for the Mac to deal with a bug in Apple's impending Lion operating system.

Firefox 5.0.1 is "coming soon," Mozilla announced in a blog post, but did not set a release date. Users running Microsoft Windows or Linux will not see the update.

According to Mozilla, Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, contains a bug that causes Firefox 5 to crash when displaying websites that use downloadable fonts.

"We alerted Apple to the problem before the release of 10.7 but they did not fix the problem before 10.7 went to final release," Christopher Blizzard, Mozilla's Web platform director, said on the company's blog. "We've changed the font APIs that we're using to newer versions which appear to fix the problem."

The bug in Lion will cause "severe crash problems" for Firefox 5 users if it's not fixed, added Blizzard.

Apple has slated Lion for release this month, and released a "gold master," the final that Blizzard referred to, on July 1. Apple has not announced the ship date for Lion, however.

Some websites reported last week that Apple will deliver Lion this week, most likely on Thursday, July 14.

Although Mozilla moved earlier this year to a rapid-release schedule that precludes most security or crash-fix updates -- those are instead rolled into the next version of the browser -- it has repeatedly said in its developer mailing lists and meetings that it will issue an emergency fix if necessary. Lion's imminent release fits that bill, Blizzard said.

At the same time Mozilla releases Firefox 5.0.1 for the Mac, the company will also update the older Firefox 3.6 to disable downloadable Web fonts when the browser runs on Lion.

But Blizzard warned Firefox 3.6 users running Lion that they may notice another problem. "[They] may also see scrollbar rendering issues," he noted, then urged them to upgrade to Firefox 5.

Mozilla is planning to retire Firefox 3.6 soon, perhaps as early as mid-August after it ships a final security update for the 18-month-old browser.

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Firefox 5 minor update for Mac coming soon
Posted on July 8, 2011 by blizzard
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We will be making an update available to Firefox 5 before the scheduled release of Firefox 6. This update will affect Macintosh users only. This update will fix two specific problems:

• There is a bug present in the upcoming release of OSX 10.7 that causes Firefox to crash when using downloadable fonts. Downloadable fonts are used widely on the web, so users would have suffered severe crash problems. We alerted Apple to the problem before the release of 10.7 but they did not fix the problem before 10.7 went to final release. We’ve changed the font APIs that we’re using to newer versions which appear to fix the problem. Users on 10.6 and before will continue to use the old APIs to reduce risk. Later versions of Firefox will move all 10.6 and later users to the new APIs.

• Apple recently updated Java on OSX 10.5 and it broke the Java plugin in Firefox. Although the number of people using Firefox on 10.5 is quite small, this update fixes Firefox so that it can load the Java plugin on 10.5.


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said by Name Game:

...Mozilla is planning to retire Firefox 3.6 soon, perhaps as early as mid-August after it ships a final security update for the 18-month-old browser...

Already?

Name Game
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Name Game

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said by antdude:

said by Name Game:

...Mozilla is planning to retire Firefox 3.6 soon, perhaps as early as mid-August after it ships a final security update for the 18-month-old browser...

Already?

Yup..Google Chrome is out pacing them...Chrome just updated again today

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