The company plans to make one final offer early next month. Mozilla estimated Wednesday that approximately two million users accepted the second upgrade. Launched last June, and since then has twice offered Firefox 2.0 users an update, Mozilla has been aggressively urging users to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 since that edition Of the four in the two less-severeĬategories, the most serious could be used by attackers to steal information from a user while browsing.Īs per its policy, Mozilla was to officially retire the older browser Tuesday, but must now delay that until Version 2.0.0.20 is available. "That means Firefox 2.0.0.19 is not identical across platforms."įirefox 2.0.0.19 was supposed to include five patches labeled "critical," one "high," two "moderate" and two "low" in Mozilla's four-step scoring system. "Due to a clerical error, and this is embarrassing, we forgot to include one of the patches," said Beltzner. Only the Windows version was affected by the mistake the Mac and Linux editions contain all 10 fixes. Instead, Mozilla plans to call it quits with Firefox 2.0.0.20.
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Tuesday's update was supposed to be the last for Firefox 2.0, which is slated for retirement.
Mozilla will release Firefox 2.0.0.20, which will include the omitted patch, as early as Friday and no later than Monday. It's not one of the severe vulnerabilities and there are no known exploits for it," he said.
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Beltzner declined to pinpoint the missing patch - one of 10 that were to be included in the update - to make it more difficult for attackers to take advantage of the snafu. "We don't believe users are at risk right now," said Mike Beltzner,ĭirector of Firefox. Release, a company executive said Wednesday. The security patches that was supposed to be included in the Windows version of Tuesday's Firefox 2.0.0.19
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