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Firefox new release Ver 23

wittmeba
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Explorer
Firefox just issued another update to Version 23.

Always a good idea to update as they contain security patches. If you have yours set to auto-update it probably already happened. You can check in the Help/About dialog box.

Windows Links:

They also started using a 'stub' installer for the manual installation - small code that updates the program.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/


If you want the complete installation program you can get it here (this is an ftp site and cant be made to a clickable - so you need to cut/paste to the URL line):

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/
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burlmart
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johnrbd wrote:
Thanks for the info. I just got update downloaded.


Me too, thanks...luv FF
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wittmeba
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Explorer
Pirate - sorry to hear that. I access gmail every day without issues. Im sure it isnt Fx and it isnt gmail. It has to be some other problem.
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Pirate1
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I had nothing but problems lately with FF. Today, I couldn't access gmail. FF locked up constantly. After years of being a loyal FF user, I decided today to dump it and go with Chrome.

SRT
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Explorer
1775 wrote:
As soon as I went to check my version of FF it started downloading the update.


Yup, it's almost finished DLing now. Just finished and this is V23.0.

1492
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I manually updated to Firefox v23, and discovered a potential issue? It's definitely a problem for me. It appears that Firefox v23 has implemented blocking of mixed content by default for security reasons. What this means is that Firefox won't allow loading of non-secure http elements on a secure https page. In order to view both secure and non-secure content, you need to left-click on the following:




And select "Disable Protection on This Page." However, this apparently only works for the current session, so refreshing or reloading the page will result in the non-secure http elements being blocked once again.

This may be fine for most, but creates an issue for me as I have a custom homepage that loads non-secure pages from other sites within a secure Dropbox webpage. This secure webpage is also auto refreshed on a regular basis, so Firefox v23 keeps blocking the non-secure elements each time.

I could not find a way to disable mixed content blocking, similar to IE, in Firefox v23 Options? Nor could I locate a solution doing a Google search. So I went into Firefox v23 configuration, and found the key that needs to be modified.

If you go into Firefox about:config, and search for the key security.mixed_content.block_active_content, you just need to "double-click" to change the value from true to false. Close, and re-start Firefox. This will allow both secure and non-secure webpage elements to display by default.

1775
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Explorer
As soon as I went to check my version of FF it started downloading the update.
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wittmeba
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Clay L wrote:
Mine is still v22. It will probably change pretty soon. I have it set to ask me before it updates and it hasn't said anything yet.

Thats the best way - at least then you know when something changes. ๐Ÿ™‚
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johnrbd
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Thanks for the info. I just got update downloaded.

Clay_L
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Explorer
Mine is still v22. It will probably change pretty soon. I have it set to ask me before it updates and it hasn't said anything yet.
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