Mozilla's developers released version 62.0.2 of the Firefox browser on September 21, 2018. This is a maintenance update which corrects some bugs and closes vulnerabilities.
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Within Security Advisory 2018-22 the developers write that the (moderately rated) vulnerability CVE-2018-12385: Crash in TransportSecurityInfo due to cached data has been fixed. The bug fixes are listed in the release notes.
- Unvisited bookmarks can once again be autofilled in the address bar.
- WebGL rendering issues
- Updates from unpacked language packs no longer break the browser
- Fix fallback on startup when a language pack is missing
- Profile refresh from the Windows stub installer restarts the browser
- Properly restore window size and position when restarting on Windows
- Avoid crash when sharing a profile with newer (as yet unreleased) versions of Firefox
- Do not undo removal of search engines when using a language pack
- Fixed rendering of some web sites
- Restored compatibility with some sites using deprecated TLS settings
- Fix screen share on MacOS when using multiple monitors
You should be able to update your browser via the menu Help – About Firefox. The download can be found on this Mozilla page. Thanks to DiWÜ for the comment.
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