Unless, of course, there’s a security update in the meantime. Users of Apple’s current release of OS X, 10.6, aren’t affected, but get the updated release of Firefox anyway.Ĭonfused? Don’t worry: the next scheduled update to the “release” version of Firefox is listed for 16 August 2011 – actually 17 August in much of the world – when Firefox’s new rapid development mechanism will bump everyone up to version 6. One of these (Firefox crashes when using a downloadable font) manifests itself only on OS X 10.7, which isn’t out yet the other (the Java plugin stopped working after Apple’s last Java update) affects only users of OS X 10.5, which is the previous version of Apple’s operating system.
This isn’t really a security fix: it deals with two reliability problems. This takes Mac users of the popular browser to version 5.0.1. Mozilla released an update to Firefox 5 yesterday – but for Mac users only.
