Firefox update causes a crashing browser with certain extensions installed!

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Hi malware fighters and users of the Fx browser,

Once again Mozilla launched a security update for the open-source browser. This time a vulnerability of the highest category is involved, which was caused by a former patch. One of the Fx 3.0.9 security fixes introduced a so-called “regression”, because of this regression a lot of users experienced crashes of the browser… http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-23.html

Especially those with the HTML Validator add-on installed were victims of this patching policy. During analysis Mozilla developers found this was due to memory corruption, identical to security issues that had been identified in the past. I did not update to Fx 3.0.10 but use this nightly test version with Nightly Tester Tools installed: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090428 Shiretoko/3.5b5pre ID:20090428041652

Some users that want to change to a browser with a much smaller platform may consider flock:
http://flock.com/download/

polonus

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No problems here with 3.0.10 update or any of my add-ons, I don’t use the html validator

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I had no problems doing the update however it did inform me that some of my add-ons weren’t compatible. :cry:

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Mine too. keyconfig, repagination, and replayanimation if I recall correctly. All three work just fine in 3.0.x, even though their developers haven’t marked them as compatible. I always set extensions.checkCompatibility to false before I update a version of 3.0.x to 3.0.(x+1). I then use the “Make Compatible” function provided by the MR Tech Toolkit extension.

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@polonus:
I am using 3.0.10, and here is my add-ons:

*Adblock Plus 1.0.2
*Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5
*AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.9.93
*Cooliris 1.10
*DownloadHelper 4.3
*Dr.Web anti-virus link checker 1.0.19
*Flagfox 3.3.11
*Flashgot 1.1.8.6
*GProxy Tool 1.51
*IDM CC 6.3
*IE Tab 1.5.20090207
*Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0
*Mozilla Archive Format 0.11.3
*NoScript 1.0.9
*WOT 20090325
*Xmarks 3.0.2

and also many plugin, but I had no problem with them

also here is list of plugins installed in my firefox, that list is a PDF created by me and uploaded in my sky-drive , it’s safe if you trust me, you can read it here :wink: