Firefox 2.0.0.7 due out tomorrow, Sept. 17

[colfer]

Quick release to fix the "Quicktime flaw abuses Firefox" vulnerability (Bug 395942). It's another one where an outside application calls Firefox with messed up params. Some discussion of having firefox.exe and a different firefox-xxx.exe with params disabled, or vice-versa, depending on which one is registered in Windows to handle http, etc. But this fix does not go that far.

Anyway, rc2 is here (rc1 was a dummy):
<edit>at the ftp address....</edit>
firefox/nightly/2.0.0.7-candidates/

More info here:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0.0.7:Test_Plan
It says the release will have only this one bug fix. Other recent branch checkins, such as 213637, did not make the release minibranch.

[Amsterdammer]

What Apple can't fix within one year, http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-qui ... ns-firefox
Mozilla's developer, QA and other can do it within less than one week,
working on weekend!

[colfer]

Firefox 2.0.0.7 is in the release folders on the ftp site. I guess they'll push it tomorrow.

[Petlydecker]

Hello,

I am trying to use the update feature within the firefox browser (version 2.0.0.6) to update to version 2.0.0.7 without success. Will I be able to update 2.0.0.6 to 2.0.0.7 from the firefox update feature or will I have to completely remove the 2.0.0.6 installation and re-install 2.0.0.7? Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

[Petlydecker]

I apologize for the thread or question. The browser prompted me to update to 2.0.0.7.

Thanks

[jdhore]

The update is up on mozilla.com now

[Societal Eclipse]

Updating to 2.0.0.8pre.

[James]

Updating to 2.0.0.8pre.

Which is a BoneEcho nightly and is no real different from 2.0.0.7 at the moment.

[colfer]

Actually, 2.0.0.8pre nightlies have a list of bug fixes not in 2.0.0.7 release, including ones that seem to touch Firefox. Search Bugzilla on Keyword "fixed1.8.1.8" and "verified1.8.1.8"

For example, in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386918#c19 Smokey Ardisson says:

2.0.0.7 is coming off of the Gecko 1.8.1.6 relbranch and not picking up any
general changes since then.

[Amsterdammer]

now it seems 2.0.0.7 is again a firewalled version, more firewall-issues than normal here on MZ and in German Fx Supportforum
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... postdays=0
http://www.firefox-browser.de/forum/vie ... highlight=

This peak on firewall issues we had with 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1 and now 2.0.0.7
Please vote for bug#335289

[colfer]

So some Firewall vendors have a whitelist, and if they see a Firefox release coming, they publish the release candidate firefox.exe to the whitelist, but on an emergency release, they don't have time? Is that really the problem?

[Amsterdammer]

^
perhaps!
RC1 was dummy
RC2 was only a very short time live
Mozilla Devs and QA worked on weekend
Firewall vendors not..

[Ted Mielczarek]

So some Firewall vendors have a whitelist, and if they see a Firefox release coming, they publish the release candidate firefox.exe to the whitelist, but on an emergency release, they don't have time? Is that really the problem?

AFAIK we notify firewall/antivirus vendors ahead of time, but I don't know how to verify that they all got the notification in time.

[colfer]

Yeah, I was just trying to understand Amsterdammer's links, some of which were in German and I guessed at from skimming & the little Deutsch I know.

[Amsterdammer]

AFAIK we notify firewall/antivirus vendors ahead of time, but I don't know how to verify that they all got the notification in time.

why not working on

The key difference here is the idea of "after update". Immediately after
update, the most common reason for Firefox being unable to access the web is an
overenthusiastic firewall application. In that particular (and detectable!)
context, we shouldn't throw up the same error message that a user might see
when their network is timing out ... we should provide tailored assistance
geared at completing the update.

The resulting message might say something helpful like:

---
Your update was successfully applied, but Firefox can't access the Internet

Some firewall programs may require you to give the updated version
of Firefox permission to access the Internet. Are you using:

* _Norton Internet Protect_
* _ZoneAlarm_
* _etc_

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335289#c4