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[Mozilla] Firefox 18.0 / 17.0.2 ESR/ 10.0.12 ESR release

Available the morning of Jan 8 approx. 8 a.m. PST or shortly thereafter @ Mozilla

Re: [Mozilla] Firefox 18.0 release

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In order to accommodate various screen resolutions and header heights, themes (formerly Personas) require very large image files. Header images need to be 3000 x 200 px and footer images 3000 x 100 px. As a result, loading them slows down Firefox. Animated themes pose an even more persistent problem for performance, because animated images are much larger in size, and the browser needs to redraw them continuously.

Bug 650968 was filed to address this issue, and the solution was to crop the images to your screen size when you start Firefox. Because smaller images are loaded when the browser starts, load times are much improved. However, a side-effect of the cropping is that animated images are not taken into account. For this reason, animated themes will no longer animate starting in Firefox 18. Since this was a unintended consequence, there are some edge cases where the image will animate normally until Firefox is restarted.

We understand that animated themes are very popular with some users, and people will be upset with this difficult decision. However, to keep Firefox performing optimally for the even greater number of users who care about speed, the decision was necessary. We would love to find a way to preserve animated themes, and are currently looking into alternative solutions.

In the meantime, a workaround would be to install the Personas Shuffler, which will refresh your animated themes every time Firefox loads, keeping them animating continuously.

There are still many beautiful and creative themes available to personalize your Firefox, with more added every day, and we hope you continue to enjoy them.

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reply to chachazz
Thanks, just got via the internal updater

reply to chachazz
Thanks, I've updated

reply to chachazz
Thanks for the update!

reply to chachazz
got it thank you

reply to chachazz
Thanks. I have Fx set to auto update but it never has. I have downloads back to Fx 3.6.

reply to chachazz
Update went w/o incident. All add-ons working.

You're welcome, folks

Fixed in Firefox 18
MFSA 2013-20 Mis-issued TURKTRUST certificates
MFSA 2013-19 Use-after-free in Javascript Proxy objects
MFSA 2013-18 Use-after-free in Vibrate
MFSA 2013-17 Use-after-free in ListenerManager
MFSA 2013-16 Use-after-free in serializeToStream
MFSA 2013-15 Privilege escalation through plugin objects
MFSA 2013-14 Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) bypass through changing prototype
MFSA 2013-13 Memory corruption in XBL with XML bindings containing SVG
MFSA 2013-12 Buffer overflow in Javascript string concatenation
MFSA 2013-11 Address space layout leaked in XBL objects
MFSA 2013-10 Event manipulation in plugin handler to bypass same-origin policy
MFSA 2013-09 Compartment mismatch with quickstubs returned values
MFSA 2013-08 AutoWrapperChanger fails to keep objects alive during garbage collection
MFSA 2013-07 Crash due to handling of SSL on threads
MFSA 2013-06 Touch events are shared across iframes
MFSA 2013-05 Use-after-free when displaying table with many columns and column groups
MFSA 2013-04 URL spoofing in addressbar during page loads
MFSA 2013-03 Buffer Overflow in Canvas
MFSA 2013-02 Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2013-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:18.0/ rv:10.0.12 / rv:17.0.2)
MFSA 2012-98 Firefox installer DLL hijacking

reply to chachazz

Re: [Mozilla] Firefox 18.0 / 17.0.2 ESR/ 10.0.12 ESR release

The internal updater was correct since you had a beta version installed. Beta 7 was the most recent version. You were on the beta release channel... There are two separate channels a Beta Release Channel and a Release channel. Now with the 18.0 final you are on the Release channel.

Considering I had changed app.update.channel to release and have it coded into my user.js the updater should have known there was a new release available.

It is possible an extension conflict caused the issue which is not really an issue as I just dump new builds into the old folder after deleting the old files. Same as I have been doing is since 0.6
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reply to chachazz
Thanks chazzy.

You're all welcome

reply to Grail Knight
Firefox 18.0 will be unthrottled Thursday morning PT

reply to chachazz
Looking forward to my favorite theme being V18 friendly.

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reply to chachazz
Thanks, got it via internal update from 17.01

reply to chachazz
Does Firefox now update to the next version automatically ?