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October 20th, 2016 14:00

Updates 10/20/16 - Firefox, MVPS Hosts

Firefox 49.0.2

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/49.0.2/releasenotes/

New

  • Asynchronous rendering of the Flash plugins is now enabled by default. This should improve performance and reduce crashes for sites that use the Flash plugin. (Bug 1307108)

Fixed

  • Change D3D9 default fallback preference to prevent graphical artifacts (Bug 1306465)

  • Network issue prevents some users from seeing the Firefox UI on startup (Bug 1305436)

  • Web compatibility issue with Array.prototype.values (Bug 1299593)

  • Various security fixes

  • Web compatibility issue with file uploads (Bug 1306472)

Changed

  • Diagnostic information on timing for tab switching (Bug 1304113)

  • Fix a Canvas filters graphics issue affecting HTML5 apps (Bug 1304539)

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Via internal updater:   Help / About Firefox

ky331

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October 20th, 2016 16:00

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49.0.2

[high]CVE-2016-5287 - Crash in nsTArray_base ::SwapArrayElements
Reporter: Philipp
Description: A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with service workers. This issue does not affect releases earlier than Firefox 49. [ Bug 1309823]

[high]CVE-2016-5288 - Web content can read cache entries
Reporter: Developers at Cliqz.com
Description: A Cliqz.com developer demonstrated that web content could access information in the HTTP cache if e10s is disabled. This can reveal some visited URLs and the contents of those pages. This issue affects Firefox 48 and 49. [Bug 1310183]

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October 20th, 2016 19:00

MVPS HOSTS File https://mvpshostsnews.blogspot.ca/2016/10/mvps-hosts-file-update-october-20-2016.html

The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [October-20-2016]
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm




Note: Windows 10 users ... the HOSTS file installs with no issues ...


Download: hosts.zip (131 kb)
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.zip


How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts2.htm


HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostsfaq.htm


Note: the "text" version (491 kb) makes a great resource for determining possible unwanted connections ...
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt


Get notified when the MVPS HOSTS file is updated
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/updates.htm

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