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Firefox 27 Released

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Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by mda »

ris wrote: post #179
mda wrote: post #173

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Oh sure, they are not magic smoke indeed. Still, how do you explain that Use after free bugs are marked Critical in Firefox but High on Chrome? Seems like Chrome is doing a little bit better in security department. https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef... http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ch/search/label/Stable%...

Because they have different classification systems/schemes? Are you really asking me this?

Security flaws browser vendors use do not have different classification schemes. They all use CVSS Severity scores, go ahead and check.

Also definitions:

Firefox Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing. High: Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions

Chrome Critical:Allows an attacker run arbitrary code with the user's privileges in the normal course of browsing. High: Allows an attacker to read or modify confidential data belonging to other web sites.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by elclanrs »

pekk wrote: post #60
iamjustin wrote: post #45

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Oh my god, that's ridiculous. Nobody spends half an hour a day waiting on auto updates. The update downloads in the background and takes just a few seconds to install after restarting the browser.

Then Flash prompts for an update, then Acrobat Reader, then Java...

Then Windows Update: "Your computer will restart in 10 minutes". Postpone 4 hours. Glad I'm on Ubuntu 99% of the time nowadays.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by ZoFreX »

ndesaulniers wrote: post #178
ZoFreX wrote: post #169

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I don't even want process per tab, I'd be happy with something much simpler: Tell me which tab is causing Firefox to use 100% CPU! This happens fairly frequently with lots of tabs open (I guess I use a lot of websites with really bad javascript) and the only recourse is to either quit Firefox entirely and re-open it, or play a guessing game.

Firefox will stop any client side JavaScript after 5-6s and ask whether you want to keep running the slow running script or not. If will even change to that tab before prompting you. Isn't that what you just described?

Only if it totally locks up the browser though, not if the browser remains responsive but eats a lot of cycles.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by JetSpiegel »

duggelz wrote: post #156
JetSpiegel wrote: post #132

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Like some kind of package manager? On Windows? Good luck with that!

If you run windows and don't use Ninite yet, let me make your day: https://ninite.com/updater/

Ninite has an updater?

You made my day right now.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by dangayle »

jlgaddis wrote: post #175
dangayle wrote: post #75

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How did that work for the TOR browser? It didn't.

I assume you're referring to the Firefox vulnerability that was exploited to attempt to identify users of the Tor Browser Bundle? FWIW, that had also been fixed by the Tor Project and a newer version of TBB was available. The users who had upgraded were not vulnerable.

Yes, that's what I was referring to. I was unaware that a newer version had been available that had addressed that issue. It's hard sometimes to plow through the FUD to know exactly what happened. Thanks.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by paulirish »

dflt wrote: post #166
paulirish wrote: post #99

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(Chrome DevTools team here). We cleaned up the filtering as it was totally inconsistent across all panels. So now it introduces one more click, but felt like generally that extra click was OK. I think we can still improve the UX, however. Which panels do you most use filters on (and for what?) Console, Network?

Hey Paul, I'm trapped on Chromium-30.0.1599.101 (same goes for similar Chrome version) because DevTools freeze for ~3 minutes after GWT's SuperDevMode recompilation on newer Chrome/Chromium. There is huge regression in performance after Chromium 32.x.xxxx.xxx. Chromium-30.0.1599.101 is the latest version without this problem on my distro. I've tried to report this but you guys don't have proper bug tracker only form…

http://crbug.com/ is the place to file tickets for us. File something and we can take a look!

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by sethish »

davexunit wrote: post #174
sethish wrote: post #124

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Chromium, the open-source-only version of Chrome is also a viable option.

Chromium is mostly free software, but it's sketchy enough territory that afaik no fully free GNU/Linux distribution packages it.

Chromium is packaged in Ubuntu and Debian. It's not packaged in Fedora because Chromium forked a half-dozen libraries [instead of pushing changes upstream](http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-wh...). Of course, none of these are 'fully free' distros.
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