Few days ago, a new security vulnerability was posted in Tor's mailing list and it contains a PoC which affects Firefox and Thunderbird and it's currently being used to exploit TorBrowser users. Mozilla quickly being notified and they released an update to their products followed by others. After analyzing it, turns out it's a SVG Animation remote code execution. It targets for Windows users, but the underlying bug is also available on other platforms as well.

Slackware include the latest Firefox and Thunderbird products in their latest update. Stable release still receive an ESR version, which is still at 45.x branch. TorBrowser is also using ESR as their baseline. They also release a new version: 6.0.7.

Another update was a request by me to include a patch to fix a problem i found while testing MATE 1.17. During creating the tarball by using make distcheck, it failed to build properly. One of MATE's developer (monsta) pointed to a bug report in LP and there was a patch to fix this issue, but somehow upstream no longer update the repository and the development seems to be stalled. Last commit was in January 2016. I send a request to Patrick and he agreed to include it on stable and current.

Two security updates for Slackware 14.1 and current has been released and that are Firefox and Thunderbird. This is a regular security update that has been regularly pushed by Pat for Slackware 14.1. Firefox in 14.1 still follows the ESR release, while Thunderbird is following latest release.

Meanwhile, in -current there are several updates:

• vim and vim-gvim: upgraded to 7.4.640
• gdb: Upgraded to 7.9
• nmap: Upgraded to 6.47
• glew: Rebuilt to include libGLEWmx
• Fluxbox: Upgraded to 1.3.7
• xChat: Don't force to use SSLv3

Step 1 :



Go to the Apple Apps Store to install the current version of XCode if you do not have it installed.



Step 2 :



Install Homebrew if you do not have it installed.



sudo ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"



To test the install if it is success or not :



brew doctor



Step 3 :



Install git if you do not have it installed.



brew install git



Step 4 :



cd /Users/Shared/



sudo git clone https://github.com/pansen/macos-sandbox-profiles.git



Step 5 :



cd /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/

sudo mv firefox-bin firefox-bin.real

sudo ln -sf /Users/Shared/macos-sandbox-profiles/bin/firefox-bin .



Step 6 :



Quit the Firefox if it is still running (not just close the browser) and then restart it.



That's all! See you.

• This utility works in any version of Windows, starting from Windows XP and up to Windows 8. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported.
• The following Web browsers are supported: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Google Chrome.
• ImageCacheViewer won't work if you configure your Web browser to clear the cache after closing it.
• It's recommended to close all windows of your Web browser before using ImageCacheViewer, to ensure that all cache files are saved to the disk.

Start Using ImageCacheViewer

Mozilla has released Firefox 18.0.1, providing a bug fixes for several proxy configuration failures and also changes for Mac OS X platform. The latest version is now includes in Slackware Current

Slackware 14.0 was just released some time ago, so it's time for Pat and most of the contributors to rest on working with Slackware, but it doesn't mean that they abandon everything. Pat is still aware of security updates, including the latest update from Mozilla Firefox which is now upgraded to 16.0.2. The package has been released for Slackware 14.0 and also -Current branch, in which they are still the same for now.

When -Current starts again someday, it will shift from -Stable and eventually it *might* break compatibilities with older version of the applications due to toolchain upgrades, which is usually being done at the beginning of the process since the toolchain will be base for building other packages.

Firefox and Thunderbird has been upgraded to 16.0.1, the latest version available that also fixed some problem that were notified in just-released Firefox 16.0 few days ago. Both package went to -Current and also -Stable version of Slackware.

Firefox 16 has the privilege of being the first update to Slackware 14.0 and it travels back to previous versions (13.37) as well. One good thing about Firefox 16 is that it also support for Opus Codec, which is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.

Besides new codec support, Firefox 16 should improve the responsiveness of the application in overall thanks to incremental garbage collector that has been improved on every release.

Firefox 4 is released recently. It also works on Ubuntu 10.10. You can upgrade it from PPA. Be keep in mind that some of the add-ons are not compatible with Firefox 4 at the moment.



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade



That's all! See you!

The following steps are for broadband users who are using Firefox and wish it is running more faster.



Step 0 :



Open Firefox and type the following at the address field.



about:config



Step 1 :



Change the following value from "false" to "true" :



network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining



Step 2 :



Change the following value from "4" to "30" :



network.http.pipelining.maxrequests



Step 3 :



At any browsing area of the browser, add the following string with a value of "0" :



nglayout.initialpaint.delay



Step 4 :



Restart Firefox. Now, you can browse the web pages more faster.



That's all! See you.