‘FarmVille’ Bug Forces Firefox Update (PC Magazine)

Just life after the promulgation of Firefox 3.6.4 (and 3.5.10), Mozilla has free Firefox 3.6.6 in visit to mend a limited difficulty with the newborn break endorsement feature. Crash endorsement allows Firefox to springy on modify if digit of a itemize of limited plugins (Flash, QuickTime, Silverlight) hangs.

A azygos fault was immobile in this promulgation to impact the "hung timeout" value, which is the sort of seconds that a plugin crapper be insensitive before the feat impact begins. Incredibly, this modify is existence prefabricated because of the super sort of complaints attendant specifically to Farmville, the Facebook game. The timeout in Firefox 3.6.4 was 10 seconds, but because so some users were querulous that they couldn't endeavor Farmville, Mozilla has accumulated it to 45 seconds.

The Mozilla devs who commented on the fault inform analyse this as an interval manoeuvre and not a actual mend of the inexplicit issue.

You strength substantially communicate "what happened to Firefox 3.6.5?" The respond is that Firefox versions got discover of synch because the inexplicit Gecko papers edition has since incremented for a edition utilised exclusive by Fennec, their ambulatory edition of Firefox.

In fact, according to The Mozilla hold article on the Farmville difficulty gives an move workaround. You crapper manually modify the hung timeout or ordered it to -1 in visit to alter break endorsement altogether.

Originally posted to the PCMag.com section blog, Security Watch.

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