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Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released

Posted by simoniker on from the guard-dogs-at-the-ready dept.

petabyte writes "As mentioned in this Mozillazine article, there are new versions of the Mozilla Suite (1.7.2), Mozilla Firefox (0.9.3) and Mozilla Thunderbird (0.7.3) available. They address 4 security bugs (linked from the Mozillazine article). Unlike Firefox 0.9.2, these can't be fixed with just a XPI upgrade, so you'll have to download a new binary and install."

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  1. Re:Does this mean that . . . by red+floyd · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you FTFL (follow the f'ing links), you'd see that the Moz download is 12 MB (win32).

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  2. How about... by Bun · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...they make an installer that will upgrade the older versions and keep all your plugins/settings? I've got a multiple list of Mozilla versions in my Add/Remove Programs box...very annoying...

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  3. Anyone managed to build 1.7.2 from source? by jbuhler · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I grabbed the 1.7.2 source tarball and configured as usual (Linux/gtk2, disabled everything but the browser), but there appear to be some files missing. The build first bombs when trying to create nsBuildID.h (missing the Perl module Moz/Milestone.pm, which I assume is part of the developers' environment). If I hand-copy nsBuildID.h.in to nsBuildID.h, it then bombs later because a variety of the needed Makefile.in files are missing (there are a bunch of warnings about this during configure).

    I tried grabbing the 1.7.2 release directly from CVS, but the same problems occur. Anyone have any better luck? Was there an FM that I forgot to R? I had no problems building 1.7 from source by the same procedure.

  4. "you'll have to download a new binary and install" by Stonent1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But I use Gentoo you insensitive clod!