Submitted by Keane Ingram on Fri, 23/12/2011 - 10:49am
A bug has been found in Firefox 9 which has led Mozilla to push out an update just a day after the initial release. Firefox 9.0.1 is now available from the Mozilla Firefox website.
Details of the bug can be found at Bugzilla. It appears that the bug most likely wouldn't affect Windows users, but the decision was taken to make this new release for the following reasons:
- We were living with 702813 for most of the life of Firefox 9, and that the backout in 708572 has actually gotten less testing
- New crash signatures (Windows even) have been found which are related to 711794, although none yet are significant or startup crashers
- We are uncertain about the number of sites affected by 702813
- We are uncertain about whether or not we 100% fixed 702813 with the backout in 708572
- The population of Windows users who have already updated to 9.0 is small (in the low millions)
- There is tracking/analysis benefit of having all desktop platforms on the same Firefox version
