Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 security updates now available

[Posted March 23, 2011 by corbet]

From:		Christian Legnitto <clegnitto-AT-mozilla.com>
To:		announce-AT-lists.mozilla.org
Subject:		Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 security updates now available
Date:		Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:48:12 -0700
Message-ID:		<3B340DBE-69D8-4EA9-9D26-EFAB55CB5961@mozilla.com>

Firefox 3.6.16 and Firefox 3.5.18 are now available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux
from http://firefox.com. As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the latest
stability and support versions of Firefox, and encourage all our users to upgrade to the very
latest version, Firefox 4.

Firefox 4: http://firefox.com
Firefox 3.6.16: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html

We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to these latest releases. If you already have
Firefox, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This updates can
also be applied manually by selecting "Check for Updates?" from the Help menu.

Firefox 3.6.16 and Firefox 3.5.18 blacklist a few invalid HTTPS certificates. For additional
details, see http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/03/22/firefox-block...

Note: All Firefox 3, 3.5, and 3.6 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 4 by
downloading it from http://firefox.com or by selecting "Check for Updates?" from the Help menu and
clicking on "Get the New Version", then checking for updates again once Firefox 3.6.16 or 3.5.18 is
installed.
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Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 security updates now available

Posted Mar 25, 2011 15:31 UTC (Fri) by blackbelt_jones (guest, #62623) [Link]

WTF? Is there really noplace to put the flashplayer module in Firefox 4?

As far as I'm concerned, this is a disaster. You used to be able to download the tarball from adobe, extract the library file, and simply copy it to the "plugins" subdirectory in the Firefox directory. That's all. It was the only SINGLE method I knew of installing flashplayer that worked for EVERY version of Linux. Having one method that worked for everything was important. I once read a blog from a college professor who gave up on Linux when he couldn't install flash. I now have no idea how to run flashplayer in Slackware, for example. I'm sure there's a way, but now I have to find it, and it'll probably be something different for every other distro I might want to try.

Yeah, I know, HTML5 is the wave of the future blah blah blah. Thanks to HTML5, I can watch videos about how to use "personas" to customize my useless browser to suit my mood. (Do they have an ANGRY persona?) But when I go to youtube with it tells me to install a flashplayer. Along with the future, I need a browser that is equipped to handle THE PRESENT!