Software Update: Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 RC1

Switch pointed out to us that a new release candidate of Mozilla Firefox could be found on the MozillaZine weblogs. The following downloads have been made available: Windows setup (4.7MB), Windows zip file (6.0MB), MacOS X (8.6MB) and Linux (7.8MB). The release notes for Firefox 0.9.1 look like this:

The 0.9 release has highlighted a few issues related to the Extension Manager, one of which was fixed for Thunderbird 0.7, but there were a few others including a top crash. As a result we will do a quickie 0.9.1 in the next few days that features fixes to the following bugs:

• bug 248071
• bug 246687
• bug 246014
• bug 245335
• bug 247322
• and the wacky infinite restart loop
• … and some updates to Winstripe.

Updates:

• the visual display version number will read “0.9.1” but since the update system works poorly at present (the generic web service is not yet deployed on update.mozilla.org) the extension app version will remain 0.9.0. This should not be a problem as there are not major changes that would cause extensions to break.
• We are taking only the fixes above plus a few other critical issues. Other bugfixes that have taken place on the aviary branch-trunk (“brunk”) since 0.9 was released (such as the new security indication etc) will not be included to minimize QA issues. [break]