Thanks Troy and Connie for the heads-up, and all the testing.

Is this a new policy by T.U.V. to perform major version upgrades to fix 
a major security problem instead of backporting security fixes into the 
old version? It only seems to be recent behaviour (openoffice, firefox).

simon

On 23/06/10 17:25, Connie Sieh wrote:
> If you are using the JAVA plugin with firefox.  Please read
>
> http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml
>
> -connie sieh
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Connie Sieh wrote:
>
>> Note that this firefox upgrade was done by TUV(The Upstream Vendor) as a
>> security errata to firefox.
>>
>> -connie sieh
>> On
>> Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Troy J Dawson wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> This is a note to let people know that Firefox 3.6 is being released
>>>> today. This is an update from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.6, which is
>>>> somewhat of a major upgrade.
>>>> Just letting you know.
>>>> Troy
>>>
>>> Note2: the new firefox for SL4 will not be going out today. It needs
>>> more testing. But it will be soon due to the Critical nature of the
>>> security bug.
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>>

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