Firefox 62.0 For Mac
Mozilla released to the Stable channel of the web browser on October 2, 2018. The new version of the Firefox web browser is a security update first and foremost; it does include playback and freeze fixes for Mac OS X Mojave next to that.
The update is already in distribution which means that most Firefox installations should pick it up automatically. Firefox's automatic update system checks for updates frequently and if it finds a new update, installs it automatically. Firefox users who have blocked automatic updates need to run a manual check for updates or to install it on their devices.
Select Menu Help About Firefox to run a manual check for updates in the browser. The popup that opens displays the installed version as well. We suggest you use the offline installer for that but the stub installer may work as well. The main differences between the two are that the offline installer includes everything that is required to install or update Firefox, and that it will always install a specific version of the browser. Firefox 62.0.3 Firefox 62.0.3 is a security update for Firefox that fixes two critical security vulnerabilities in Firefox that affect Stable and ESR versions of the browser. Are two critical security issues that affect the sandboxed content process and may be exploited to execute code remotely. A vulnerability in register allocation in JavaScript can lead to type confusion, allowing for an arbitrary read and write.
This leads to remote code execution inside the sandboxed content process when triggered. A vulnerability where the JavaScript JIT compiler inlines Array.prototype.push with multiple arguments that results in the stack pointer being off by 8 bytes after a bailout. This leaks a memory address to the calling function which can be used as part of an exploit inside the sandboxed content process. The vulnerability affects Firefox 62.0.2 and earlier versions of the browser and Firefox 60.2.1 ESR and earlier. Firefox 62.0.3 fixes two Mac OS X related issues next to that. Users who upgraded their Mac devices to the new operating system version Mojave may have experienced hangs and freezes in Firefox when certain dialogs such as download, upload, or print are activated in the browser UI.
The second issue fixes playback of certain encrypted video streams on Mac OS X. For all supported operating systems as well which addressed a large number of issues and a security issue. And I have seen in the course of three days, less actually, two different extensions installed without my consent and hidden within Firefox’s UI which were sending my data to some mozilla owned server.
No, I don’t think this is an exageration on my part, this is an exageration on mozilla’s end forcing telemetry on me, despite the fact that I explicitely opted out of any telemetry and tests. I could not remove those two addons, they were coming back with every browser restart. It has happened at least three times in a row, until I decided to block Firefox’s access from the “feaures” folder inside my profile. And it happened on two different instances, both on a Windows 7 PC and a LTSB1607 VM.
This is not acceptable behaviour. I was not announced or even aware of this happening. I spotted them in CCleaner.
In-browser configuration SHOULD NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BE TRUSTED, when it comes to Firefox. The Telemetry plugin that was installed along with the FX Monitor plugin was sent to 1% of English speaking users in the United States. Or at least that’s what I heard. My Firefox “Test” profile was actually selected in that 1%. To be clear, I don’t like that they installed the telemetry plugin but I can understand it.
And I don’t see the plugin as ever being malicious but instead as being a stupid thing to do that pissed off the user base. Their need to know the extent of users with disabled telemetry was more important to them than all of us not wanting to participate, not that I agree or condone it. But 1% of US users, ONE percent.
I’m not seeing any unwanted telemetry going to Mozilla from profiles I don’t want sending telemetry. I still don’t know what your malfunction was with uninstalling the plugins because unlike you I uninstalled FX Monitor and the Telemetry plugin TWO different times without it ever mysteriously reinstalling itself. The first time I uninstalled them I had to reinstall a backup of my profile to get the plugins back because I wasn’t done experimenting with them. And since then, I’ve now had FX Monitor and the Telemetry plugin removed from my “Test” profile for about two weeks now without it ever once reappearing. Mozilla was mining cryptocurrency? LMAO Whatever. No, I haven’t heard wrong but I did round it up to 1%.
Are you using a VPN? If you are it might explain why you got those addons. FX Monitor: “Mozilla plans to roll out the feature to EN-US users of Firefox only during initial launch. The organization plans to enable the feature for 0.5% of EN-US users initially on September 5, 2018.” “Telemetry-off: “Mozilla created the Telemetry Coverage system add-on and distributed it to 1% of the Firefox population.” ““I have no other explanation for two Broadwell-E cores at 3,5GHz almost fully used only by firefox.exe with no tabs open and supposedly idling. Do you?” Seriously? If you fall victim to malware you don’t really expect to see it using notepad.exe do you.
Same thing with cryptominers. Hey, you asked!:)l I keep track of my system resource usage more than anyone I know, not 24 hrs a day but pretty much everyday. And I would hear at least one of my 6 fans inside my tower ramp up if cpu usage was high, the damn thing is right next to me and stays quiet until my Data (E:) hard drive starts up.
And I also very often check my hardware temps. OCD!;) I would absolutely notice if usage was ever high and I Never Ever, ever see anything abnormal when it’s supposed to be idling.
And I absolutely never saw any abnormal resource usage when I had the FX Monitor and the Telemetry addons installed. The fact that you are seeing that proves to me you got more going on than just Firefox. Deny it at your own peril.;). “Don’t need a plugin I can’t get rid of” What plugin is that? I’ve been using Firefox for over 10 years and have Never ever seen a plugin that I couldn’t remove.
If you’re talking about the telemetry plugin, I actually saw it in one of my profiles over a month ago and had zero problems removing it once I decided I was done with it. What was your malfunction? I honest to God don’t care what browser anyone uses.
You can use Safari on Windows for all I care, and I won’t say anything about it. Hell, I have six different browsers (8 profiles) installed so I’m not exactly closed minded about it. But since you feel the need to troll a Firefox article about security updates praising the virtue of WF let’s talk about Waterfox! I think it’s more than just a little ironic that you’re whining about FF in an article about security updates while you praise Waterfox and completely ignore it’s security update failures. How many security updates does Waterfox have to fall behind in comparison to FF before the average user should be concerned? How many security updates is Waterfox now missing?
And I’m never surprised when Waterfox “enthusiasts” rarely if ever want to talk about how far behind in performance WF actually is when compared to FF. These will be the same people who swear that webrender is making a huge difference in WF v56 for them. Go ahead and tell me about it! I actually have WF installed, with two different profiles and can see how they compare side by side with FF so go ahead and make your claims. I’m not going to mention the Always slower browser startup. The Always slower page load times. The Always slower graphics rendering.
The Always higher memory usage when using the same number of web content processes. I also won’t mention that Legacy addons will rarely if ever be updated, ever again.
Which reminds me of the uBlock Origin Legacy version which is arguably the most important extension for many people, is it Ever going to see the new “Per-site JavaScript master switch” that the webext version has now? But goat head, keep praising the virtues of WF. There is not a single thing that WF does that a FF user is unable to do themselves by unchecking a couple boxes and deleting a folder.
The uninformed claiming that WF is a “privacy hardened fork of FF” is just that, uninformed ignorance. Was that redundant? I had the same two addons and managed not to have any problems in any way with both of them. I wasn’t looking over your shoulder so I can’t explain what your particular malfunction was but maybe I was somehow less incompetent? I only know that I had zero problems. You and Yuliya can both keep repeating your malware fairy tale and based on my experience on my hardware that’s exactly what it looks like to Me, a fairy tale, and I’ll keep responding with my observations and experiences using FF. If you leave a comment why would you ever be surprised to see a reply from someone with a completely different experience than yours?
Get over it, it’s not like we’re going to be singing Kumbayah what with all your “hidden shit” and repeated “fucking idiots”, not interested in any explanations. Within 12 hours or so of being updated to 62.0.3 I experienced some hanging with FF. It happened when selecting “Clear History” in settings.
Then very shortly after the entire program froze, so I tried in safe mode and the clear history problem was still there, so I did a clean uninstall and reinstall of the full program, and then another one after that. There haven’t been any program freezes since then (24 hours or so), but FF still hangs when clearing history.
What used to take a few seconds now takes close to a full minute! In researching the hanging problem I saw on another tech site–might have been techdows or something similar–that FF 62.0.3 (or 62.0.2?) contained “improvements to clearing local storage” or something like that. Of course seeing this makes me think that if something has been done by Mozilla to the “clear history” process then that is what is now likely causing it to suddenly function so much differently. As I said, “clear history” used to take a few seconds and now takes close to a full minute!
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Oh, and during that time I think the program briefly shows “not responding.” Posting here in case anyone else experiences this. Update: the first uninstall-reinstall I did was with the full version of 62.0.3. When the hanging problem persisted, I did a second clean uninstall-reinstall, and used the full version of 62.0 I had. The hang when clearing history persisted, which I couldn’t understand. Today FF automatically updated itself to 62.0.3, and now clear history is working correctly again!
What’s happened with this these last few days doesn’t make sense to me but at least “clear history” is working correctly again. But one thing I noticed after today’s auto-update to 62.0.3: it changed a number of my settings in the process! It changed some of my about:config modifications back to their default, re-enabling Pocket, and disabling security.OCSP.require, for example. Under Settings, Home, Firefox Home Content it had checked and selected all of the boxes there, when I had had them all unchecked previously. And under Privacy and Security it had checked “Autofill addresses,” which I had unchecked.
I don’t recall an FF update changing my preferences like this before. So after updating to FF 62.0.3 it’s worth having a look in your settings and in about:config and making sure everything is set up and configured the way you had it prior to the update! Note to Martin: today my earlier post above took well over 12 hours to appear! Hello there, I need some help: since this update, I cannot manage to access some websites, including Facebook and Gmail.
I have tried deleting the cookies and the cache, but it won’t change anything. The firewall is ok, nothing weird here, and Kaspersky Internet Security has not done anything either. No matter what I have tried so far, I always end up with the following message: Secure Connection Failed The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Does anyone have a clue of how to help me out please? Thank you for your time.