What does this mean to Windows users? Well, nothing. We’ll have more news as that plan comes together,” the company said at the time. A fix would be a very minor change and limited to just Mac users. Lion’s expected to ship before Firefox 6 (which contains a complete fix for this problem) so we’re probably going to have to do something sooner. “We’re looking at a potential update to Firefox 5 because of a new and serious crasher that our Firefox 5 users would hit when they update to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). Mozilla revealed plans for this refresh last week. The Firefox 5.0.1 update did not exactly come out of the blue. Only that, unlike Firefox 6 Beta and Firefox 7 Aurora, Firefox 5.0.1 can be run by end users into production. And yet…įirefox 5.0.1 is now available for download along with Firefox 6 Beta and Firefox 7 Aurora. In this regard, while there was a Firefox 4.0.1, there should have never been a Firefox 5.0.1.
When it accelerated the development process and release cycle of its open source browser, Mozilla also overhauled the way in which Firefox was supported.
Here’s something that users won’t see every day, a minor update to a post-Firefox 4.0 release.
