Firefox 11 release postponed due to security issues

ronjor · Mar 13, 2012

The Firefox team has announced that they are postponing the release of Firefox 11, originally planned for today, because of a security report which the team wants to evaluate to make sure the issue will not impact on their code. Jonathan Nightingale, Mozilla's Senior Director of Firefox Engineering, also Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday security update, also scheduled for today, as a reason to hold back on releasing the new Firefox version.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/ne...postponed-due-to-security-issues-1470624.html

malexous · Mar 13, 2012

http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2012/03/12/update-on-firefox-release-timing/

The security bug reported by ZDI is one we had already identified and fixed through our internal processes. This eliminates the need for us to delay this week’s releases, and we will be shipping them later today. However, in order to understand the impacts of Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” fixes, we will initially release Firefox for manual updates only. Once those impacts are understood, we’ll push automatic updates out to all of our users.
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