by a Thinker, Sailor, Blogger, Irreverent Guy from Madras

Firefox 19.0.1 available, but not quite


It is now expected that Mozilla will release a half-baked, buggy version of Firefox browser and fix it soon after with a minor update.  About 10 days back, Mozilla released Firefox 19.  Today (yesterday night, India time) they have gone ahead and released a new, minor update 19.0.1.

But hold on!  Not quite.  Firefox 19.0.1, is an update *only* if we are on Windows 8.  Anyone who is on Windows 7- or on Linux (or Mac) doesn’t get an update notification.  In fact, if we check for updates manually, Help -> About Firefox, we will be told that the current version 19.0, is up-to-date.

Firefox_19.0_up-to-date_Win7

So, what is new in Firefox 19.0.1?
Mozilla have fixed a stability issue for some AMD Radeon HD graphics cards on Windows 8 only.  So even if we were on Windows 8, we may not actually need the bug fix release.
:-?

Thus there is nothing for non-Windows 8 users to worry about Firefox 19.0.1., (except to write about it).


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