Updates browser 72 hours after finding new password bug
(Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. beat its own schedule by patching Firefox late Friday to fix a password bug it had inadvertently introduced earlier in the week.
Firefox 3.0.3, which had originally been expected to post this week, went live around 9 p.m. EDT Friday, according to a message to the mozilla.dev.planning board by Firefox Director Mike Beltzner.
Last Wednesday, just a day after Mozilla upgraded Firefox to 3.0.2 to patch 11 security vulnerabilities and address other stability issues, Beltzner announced that another update would be necessary to fix a newly introduced flaw.
After updating to Firefox 3.0.2, some users were unable to call up passwords or save any new site passwords, Beltzner said then.
Firefox 3.0.3 contained only the change to the browser's password manager.
The quick turnaround -- Mozilla said that it issued the revised 3.0.3 within 72 hours of discovering the regression error -- is among the fastest for the open-source developer................
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(Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. beat its own schedule by patching Firefox late Friday to fix a password bug it had inadvertently introduced earlier in the week.
Firefox 3.0.3, which had originally been expected to post this week, went live around 9 p.m. EDT Friday, according to a message to the mozilla.dev.planning board by Firefox Director Mike Beltzner.
Last Wednesday, just a day after Mozilla upgraded Firefox to 3.0.2 to patch 11 security vulnerabilities and address other stability issues, Beltzner announced that another update would be necessary to fix a newly introduced flaw.
After updating to Firefox 3.0.2, some users were unable to call up passwords or save any new site passwords, Beltzner said then.
Firefox 3.0.3 contained only the change to the browser's password manager.
The quick turnaround -- Mozilla said that it issued the revised 3.0.3 within 72 hours of discovering the regression error -- is among the fastest for the open-source developer................
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115783&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8