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Thread Author: R.P.	Replies: 10

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Wed 24 Mar 10 10:03

Firefox Security Patch - R.P.

The German Government has identified a security issue with Firefox 3.6.1 and a patch has been released to day.....I had to "request" and update to get it i.e. it didn't download automatically...

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Wed 24 Mar 10 10:09

Firefox Security Patch - Statistical Outlier

Interesting, 3.6.2 updated automatically as I ran Firefox today. Worth doing manually if not though.

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Wed 24 Mar 10 12:00

Firefox Security Patch - Telb

Yep, 3.6.2 updated automatically here yesterday.

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Wed 24 Mar 10 20:04

Firefox Security Patch - Bellboy

just updated here automatically
maybe it wont if you use internet explorer as your first user

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Wed 24 Mar 10 20:38

Firefox Security Patch - ....

>> The German Government has identified a security issue with Firefox 3.6.1 and a patch has
>> been released to day.....
>>

It must be nice to have completed all their work and have time to lend resource to the IT industry to test web browsers. IE last month, Firefox this, Opera next ?

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Wed 24 Mar 10 22:25

Firefox Security Patch - bathtub tom

I wouldn't have known about this if it wasn't for this site.

I went to check which version of Firefox I've got and saw the 'apply downloaded update now' message. I'm surprised there isn't a flag to let me know, I could go for ages without re-starting my browser.

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Wed 24 Mar 10 22:27

Firefox Security Patch - R.P.

Same here Tom - I just hibernate my computers generally//

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Wed 24 Mar 10 22:29

Firefox Security Patch - rtj70

And the Mac will cleverly sleep and then write content to disk (hibernate). Default is this way on Mac laptops. My iMac does this now too but is not the default config.

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Wed 24 Mar 10 22:31

Firefox Security Patch - R.P.

Mine does that.

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Wed 24 Mar 10 22:58

Firefox Security Patch - rtj70

Yours is an Apple laptop and should do this. Mine is an Apple iMac desktop and doesn't by default. I changed the shutdown/sleep config.

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Sat 27 Mar 10 09:59

Firefox Security Patch - Stuartli

If you have Belarc Advisor installed on your system, you will note that all Microsoft security standards for IE, OE and the operating system have to match US Government requirements to receive the full 10 out of 10 mark..:-)

But the Americans have always been paranoid about security...

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