Mozilla Firefox Version 37.0 Released

[Corrine]

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 37.0 to the release channel. The update does not include any security fixes. See post 2 below.

A major addition included in the browser is called Heartbeat, described as User Voice in Firefox. Essentially, it is a user rating system. Heartbeat will appear randomly requesting a rating:

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which may be followed by an "Engagement" request:

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Personally, this seems like a whole lot of nonsense to me and a wasted effort on the part of Mozilla.org to increase its following. It is nonsense like that that convinces me further that I made the right decision to switch to Pale Moon.

If you do not wish to allow Heartbeat, it can be disabled as follows:

1. Open about:config
2. Click "I'll be careful, I promise!" when presented with the warning.
3. Type selfsupport in the search box
4. Set browser.selfsupport.url to ""

Additional information about the update is available in the Mozilla Firefox Release Notes

 

[Corrine]

Mozilla Firefox Versoin 37.0 Released with Critical Security Updates

Correction: Although not listed in the Release Notes, it appears that Version 37.0 does indeed include security fixes: four (4) critical, two (2) high, five (5) moderate and one (1) low.

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories — Mozilla

 

[x BlueRobot]

Re: Mozilla Firefox Versoin 37.0 Released

It seems they've thrown in more marketing fluff, I thought they were so proud to be apparently independent and for the user?

 

[Patrick]

Re: Mozilla Firefox Versoin 37.0 Released

Edit: Hopefully I'll learn to read.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Re: Mozilla Firefox Versoin 37.0 Released

Patrick, have you checked the second post?

 

[Patrick]

Re: Mozilla Firefox Versoin 37.0 Released

Evidently not.

 

[Corrine]

Curiously, since it has been a while, I launched Firefox on two different computers today to install the update. Going to Help > About Firefox, neither version even provided the link to check for updates, both reporting that Firefox is up to date. Problem is, neither version is up to date. Both are at 36.0.1 and there were two security updates from the pwn2own contest.

Edit Note: I edited the first post in this thread to point to post #2 about the security updates.

 

[Corrine]

Mozilla Firefox Version 37.0.1 Released

Version 37.0 was withdrawn from the release channel due to users experiencing start-up crashes with certain graphics hardware and third party software. Version 37.0.1 has been released to fix that issue as well as disabling HTTP/2 AltSvc and including one (1) critical and one (1) high security update.

Release Notes