Due to Apple's new policies on App signing, we had to take a tricky solution to let Mac users continue to use Firefox.

New installs (If you download from our website) are Firefox 32.0.0, because that has been added to Apple's Whitelist. After you install, Firefox will update to 32.0.2, which can be updated on Mac, but not installed until Apple adds us to their whitelist (which will happen this week). You should install this update ASAP as it fixes a few issues in 32.0.0.

Sorry for the confusion, we are trying our best to work with Apple's rules

Thanks Tyler. It does seem rather quick that Mozilla came out with an upgrade to 32.0.1, and as I've seen, there are quite a few things that 32.0.2 is written up to fix.

Just one more point: whenever I've accepted and left FF to upgrade itself, the stream bar shows up. It does not indicate how much data is coming in, nor how long the upgrade would take. My experience is that it takes a long time and it does not seem to end, despite leaving it on for quite a while. On one occasion, I recall it going on for 1/2hr and it had not yet completed! I've now learnt, as I am doing now, to just download the latest version en masse from the Mozilla site.

Appreciate your quick and informative response. <tempatan>

The Firefox 32.0.2 was to fix a top crasher some were getting with 32.0

Only one thing is mentioned for 32.0.2 in Release notes. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/32.0.2/releasenotes/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/32.0.1/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/32.0/releasenotes/

Cannot wait for Apple whitelist? Grab here -> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/mac/en-US/

Ah yes the Firefox 32.0.2 for Mac OSX has been available on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ for almost a day now.

Bug 1071597 - Serve OSX Firefox 32.0.2 for all 32.0.x releases

No need to get it from the ftp as suggested above.

Guys, thanks for your responses! I checked, and you are right - I can see the version 32.0.2 ready to be downloaded now. I'll do it tomorrow early morning (my time) using my off-peak bandwidth.

It is interesting to note though that the reminder notice came up so often. I've never been, or perhaps have not noticed, the persistent notices that popped up to remind me to upgrade my this version of FF.

Thanks again!

Note that there has been a Firefox 32.0.3 version released to address a serious security vulnerability.

• https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html

Yup, that's right. By the time I was ready to download the latest FF version, it was giving out the 32.0.3 version.

Lol

Chemspill updates are rare and this has been a first for three so far.

Interesting ... btw, what "chemspill" mean in this context?

Minor updates before Firefox 4.0 were basically long term support of a version which was still security and stability fixes (like say the updates for 3.6 which went up to 3.6.28) and the minor updates never really had features with exception of say 3.6.4. The 3.6.4 was when the plugin container started.

Now the Releases are done without ever expecting to have any minor updates. The word did get used before Firefox 4.0 but it was not really used as much until after 4.0 as I guess it is more fitting as the minor updates can be on rather short notice.

The term chemspill started being used some six years ago. A definition is at http://www.janetswisher.com/?itemid=248 Chemspill

   An emergency release of software, in response to a potentially negative event. This was originally coined with reference to security vulnerabilities, particularly when the hole is actively being exploited by bad guys. However, just recently, Firefox 3.6.6 was released as a chemspill to fix a poor choice for a default setting. This release came quick on the heels of Firefox 3.6.4, which introduced a feature to detect when a plug-in (such as the Flash player) is hanging. In 3.6.4, the default time to trigger this feature was set at 10 seconds, which was too short for many older computers, causing problems for a great many users who upgraded. Hence, a chemspill release of 3.6.6 was done in record time, to change the default to 45 seconds. (The value is configurable, but most users don't know (and shouldn't need to know) how to change it.)