Firefox 17 Released, Includes Critical Security Updates

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References

• Common questions after updating Firefox
• Security Updates
• Mozilla Firefox Release Notes
• Version 17 Bug Fixes

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Firefox 17.0.1 Released

Mozilla released what appears to be a minor update to version 17.0.1. I'm not seeing any security updates. From the Release Notes:

17.0.1: Font rendering issue in Firefox 17.0 (bug 814101)

17.0.1: Reverted user agent change causing some website incompatibilities

Edit Note: I guess I didn't look far enough down the page. There were a few other fixes in version 17.0.1 as well as two new items. I'm not sure why the additional fixed items were listed at the bottom.

• 17.0.1: Leaving Private Browsing with Social API enabled should reset social components (814554)
• Pointer lock doesn't work in web apps (769150)
• Page scrolling on sites with fixed headers (780345)
  New:
• First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
• Click-to-play blocklisting implemented to prevent vulnerable plugin versions from running without the user's permission (see blog post)