{"id":20682,"date":"2021-07-14T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=20682"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:18:09","slug":"firefox-90-0-0-und-78-12-0-esr-verfgbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/07\/14\/firefox-90-0-0-und-78-12-0-esr-verfgbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 90.0.0 and 78.12.0 ESR released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Firefox\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mozilla\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Dhputf4.jpg\" width=\"65\" align=\"left\" height=\"63\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/14\/firefox-90-0-0-und-78-12-0-esr-verfgbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Mozilla developers have released version 90.0.0 and 78.12.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on July 13, 2021. The version 90.0.0 is a new development branch of the browser, and the ESR is a security update, which should eliminate vulnerabilities, but also fix bugs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Firefox 90.0.0<\/h2>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/90.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release notes<\/a>, version 90.0.0 brings some new features as well as bug fixes and security fixes. Here is a rough overview of the new features:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Windows, updates can now be applied in the background while Firefox is not running.\n<li>Firefox for Windows now features a new about:third-party page to identify compatibility issues caused by third-party applications\n<li>Exceptions to HTTPS-only mode can be managed in about:preferences#privacy\n<li>Printing to PDF now creates working hyperlinks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, there is version 2 of Firefox's SmartBlock feature, which further improves private browsing. Third-party Facebook scripts are blocked to prevent you from being tracked. However, the scripts are now automatically loaded \"just in time\" when you choose to \"Sign in with Facebook\" on a website. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some security vulnerabilities<\/a> that are rated as high or moderate have been fixed in the new version.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-30\/#CVE-2021-29970\">CVE-2021-29970: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29971: Granted permissions only compared host; omitting scheme and port on Android<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-30\/#CVE-2021-30547\">CVE-2021-30547: Out of bounds write in ANGLE<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29972: Use of out-of-date library included use-after-free vulnerability<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29973: Password autofill on HTTP websites was enabled without user interaction on Android<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29974: HSTS errors could be overridden when network partitioning was enabled<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29975: Text message could be overlaid on top of another website<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29976: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2021-28\/#CVE-2021-29977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2021-29977: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details may be found within the links sections of the Firefox page.  <\/p>\n<h2>Firefox 78.12.0 esr<\/h2>\n<p>An update of Firefox 78.12.0 esr with one year of long-term support with the same fixed vulnerabilities has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/78.12.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided<\/a>. The new Firefox and the ESR variant can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/all\/#product-desktop-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this website<\/a> for various platforms (the variant is to be selected via the list boxes displayed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Mozilla developers have released version 90.0.0 and 78.12.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on July 13, 2021. The version 90.0.0 is a new development branch of the browser, and the ESR is a security update, which should eliminate vulnerabilities, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/07\/14\/firefox-90-0-0-und-78-12-0-esr-verfgbar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[872,580,1547,22],"tags":[530,1079,195],"class_list":["post-20682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-security","category-software","category-update","tag-firefox","tag-sicherheit","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}