Firefox 20 arrives - new version, some security improvements, no known vices

JMH · Apr 2, 2013

Firefox 20.0 was released today. The buglist page enumerates 3054 official changes.

Despite the title buglist, these aren't all flaws that needed fixing.

The updates run from the benign-sounding bug #819202 ("attempting to open a new public window when a private window is focused opens a new private window") to enhancement #800085 ("complete gecko testing for identity SignInToWebsiteController").

Amongst this month's changes, however, are eleven patched vulnerabilities.

All of them, at least at the time of writing, are shown on the official vulnerabilities page with their Security Advisory links coloured in red, denoting a Critical impact:

Firefox 20 arrives ? new version, some security improvements, no known vices |

AceInfinity · Apr 3, 2013

I posted about this as well as soon as it came out. To be honest I've been waiting for v20 ever since I first tested it on the development channels. The downloads manager was improved to my likings, and the speed as well from since I upgraded 19.0.2 on the release channel by a noticeable amount.

LilBambi · Apr 3, 2013

I hope they finally fixed the memory hole/memory runaway issue on the Mac. I would love to be able to use Firefox as my default for general purpose surfing again on the Mac. But ever since Lion, I have not been able to do so.

Thankfully, Google Chrome has my extensions so it wasn't a great loss. But there are some things I really like better in Firefox. Printing is one of them.

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Firefox 20 arrives - new version, some security improvements, no known vices

JMH

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