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ByTeWrangler will love this..................FireFox just updated itself.............
Announcing the fact by crashing and displaying a crash report form.............. it then updated itself and restarted!!!!! (I couldn't make this up if I tried):D
Looks like Microsoft have found an away training ground for their team? :lildevil:
And a quick snippet from the What's New Blurb
Quote:
What’s New in Firefox 3.6.2
Firefox 3.6.2 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:
- Fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 552216).
- Fixed several additional security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.
Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.6 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.
Byte carn't say much really because opera release there 10.50 version and straight away there was a security hole. They denied it straight off the bat, even after researches showed them in person...
after awhile they finally stopped back pedalling and admitted there may be a vuln in there girly browser and have finally released a update patch... mehehehe
Also i just opened mine brushed of the cob-webs and ran the updater and it grabbed the 2.8mb patch updated, re-started without a hitch..
no crash for me. :drink:
Ah! I didn't run the updater, it did it itself and probably clashed with something else I was running. Or maybe it just needed to shut itself down to do the update.
I never have the auto-update feature enabled on any APP. that way i get a chance to make a manual backup, for this i get to use mozbackup and backup the profile and anything else that way when i do use the update feature if anything plays up i can revert to the previous version re-apply my backed up data and either stay with the old version or try downloading from the relevant site and doing a fresh install.
curious did you have any java intense pages open while doing the update?
Hi Hybr|d,
I had the AO frontpage and the Firefox start page open. I suspect that it just wanted itself shut down whilst it updated, as it restored the tabs when it restarted. I wasn't running anything else using Java.
Several apps I run want to shut themselves down or me to close them before they will update so I am not that surprised.
I reckon it was a bit of lazy programming, and they just used the standard error message to let me know they were shutting it down. Unfortunately, this automatically generates an error report pop-up, which doesn't look very professional :D I guess they didn't ask if I wanted to update because it was a major security fix?
Of course I didn't send it :halo::D