SillyDog701 • Firefox 2.0.0.10 Released

by **Antony** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 12:16 am

Mozilla Corporation has issued an update to Firefox, making the latest shipping version of Firefox to version 2.0.0.10. This release is a maintenance update addressing three security issues. The fix include referrer-spoofing via window.location race condition, memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv 1.8.1.10), and jar: URI scheme XSS.

Firefox 2.0.0.10 can be downloaded from http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

by **Antony** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 12:31 am

Screenshot of Firefox 2.0.0.10:

According to UserAgent string, Firefox 2.0.0.10 uses Gecko rendering engine 1.8.1.10.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10

by **J-M** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 6:39 am

Vulnerabilities included to this release has been assigned to Secunia advisory 'SA27725'
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

The severity rating of this advisory is 3/5.

The JAR: protocol vulnerability was covered at a separate Mozilla Firefox "jar:" Protocol Handling Cross-Site Scripting Security Issue advisory #27605.

The severity rating of this JAR: advisory is 2/5, in turn.

Mozilla's Release Notes document link here.

'Security issues fixed in 2.0.0.10' link here.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

by **Fulvio** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 11:35 am

Any problem, anyone?
I uninstalled 2.0.0.9, which never failed, and installed 2.0.0.10. It verified add-ons, and died. I sent QF, and tried again. QF came up again. This is not going to be fun!
I tried another download, and, again it did not start downloading. They may be busy.
I Cancelled the second QF, but it is still in queue! Will try one more time.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9pre) Gecko/20071102 Firefox/2.0.0.9 Navigator/9.0.0.3

by **James** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 11:44 am

Since NN is my default, I don't use FF that often. But I updated by simply running the update. No uninstall. In fact, I've never uninstalled and never had an issue with an update. Maybe I'm just lucky????

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9pre) Gecko/20071102 Firefox/2.0.0.9 Navigator/9.0.0.3

by **Fulvio** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 11:58 am

James wrote:Since NN is my default, I don't use FF that often. But I updated by simply running the update. No uninstall. In fact, I've never uninstalled and never had an issue with an update. Maybe I'm just lucky????

I had been told that incremental updates were of questionable quality, so I did the uninstall. Why should that have been a problem.
I had forgotten that I had a QF in queue, so after uninstalling/ reinstalling 2.0.0.10, QF came up. I went to uninstall 2.0.0.10, but I found only a 2.0.0.9 entry. I did the uninstall, and it messed up again. I had 3.0b1 installed in a different folder, and used, with no problem until this. Then, I realized that the latest version would have been uninstalled first. There was no entry for 3.0b1 in the Add/Remove. Finally, I selected to uninstall this phantom 2.0.0.9, but checked the mozilla firefox directory. I had a lot, but not all files. I deleted all files and folders, except for the plugins. Then, I uninstalled and reinstalled. QF came up just as FF2.0.0.10 also came up. I deleted the entry in queue for QF, and here I am, without 3.0b1, of course.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10

by **Mandrake** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 12:03 pm

James wrote:Since NN is my default, I don't use FF that often. But I updated by simply running the update. No uninstall. In fact, I've never uninstalled and never had an issue with an update. Maybe I'm just lucky????

It's not just you. I never uninstall before I update Firefox and have never had any issues.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10

by **Fulvio** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 1:06 pm

This is the last time that I will uninstall. It is easy to fix things if the incremental does not work.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 SeaMonkey/1.1.6

by **jjssparkle** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 4:44 pm

Yes, my confidence in these auto-updates is quite high, especially in the last year or so, no problems; quite the Mozilla fan around here. Actually, on another machine I also have Netscape 9 installed just to have a look see as to what goes on with that and have Foxscape theme installed on NN 9 as I do with Firefox ... but the question: why even bother with Netscape? Firefox is the leading edge of any Netscape builds anyway so ... I just prefer to go with Firefox, sort of more straight to the source.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10

by **Fulvio** » Tue 27 Nov, 2007 6:00 pm

why even bother with Netscape?

Today, after the installation debacle only Navigator9 worked. It is an excellent backup to Firefox, and, I use different Tabs in each.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1

by **iJohnE** » Fri 30 Nov, 2007 6:57 pm

Actually the now released 2.0.0.11 here is a screenshot

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

by **J-M** » Fri 30 Nov, 2007 8:48 pm

According to browser's User Agent string this new Gecko revision 1.8.1.11 was pulled out on Tuesday 27th Nov:

[tt]rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11[/tt]

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10

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