ZDNet Australia: Coding Misstep Forces New Firefox, Thunderbird Releases | Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: Coding Misstep Forces New Firefox, Thunderbird Releases

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 18, 2005

“The open source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client
will be updated for the second time in a week due to code changes
that have unintentionally stopped some third-party extensions from
functioning correctly.

“The updates will take Firefox and Thunderbird to version 1.0.6,
while the Mozilla Suite will be updated to version 1.7.10, wrote
representatives from the Mozilla Foundation–which oversees the
software’s development–on the body’s developer news blog. It
appears security fixes in last week’s 1.0.5 update caused the
problems…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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