Firefox 3.0.2 Is Out

Sep.23, 2008 in Firefox

Firefox A new update of Firefox, version 3.0.2 has been released. Before updating it’s a good idea to back up your Firefox using either MozBackup and/or FEBE.

Changelog

Firefox 3.0.2 contains the following updates:

Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available.
Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telegu, and Thai are available for testing.
Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.
Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales.
Fixed issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing (bug 426026)
Add new Extended Validation (EV) roots to Firefox 3.0.2.
On certain IDN sites, the password manager would not fill in username and password details properly.
Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.
Fixed Mac-specific issues:
- Keyboard shortcuts would stop working in some cases.
- Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
- Firefox 3.0.1 could not be used when the user profile is stored on an AFP directory (bug 417037)

To update your Firefox, go to Help –> Check for Updates….

The file size is 9.4 MB. After download of the update is complete, restart Firefox. Note that there could be some compatibility problems with your existing add-ons.

We shall update this post with a possible solution to make the incompatible extensions work again. Update: Here is how you can make the add-ons work again.