Firefox 3.0.2 Released
Firefox (3.0.2) is released, but one password bug is noticed.
UPD: Under the cut described what kind of bug and how it can be fixed.
Among the list of fixes:
It would seem all is well and good. But many have noticed a bug with saved passwords. When upgrading from previous versions, some users do not save and do not display old passwords (this is due to non-Latin characters in the database of stored passwords).
There are several ways to get rid of this:
What exactly the fix is related to this bug - I don’t know, most likely with “On certain IDN sites, the password manager incorrectly substituted saved logins and passwords in the fields.”
UPD: Under the cut described what kind of bug and how it can be fixed.
Among the list of fixes:
- Fixed several security vulnerabilities .
- Fixed several stability issues.
- Released build in Sinhala and Slovenian .
- For testing purposes, beta builds have been released in the following languages: Bengali, Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, Thai and Hindi.
- Fixed several minor issues related to the display of certain web pages.
- Fixed several issues with themes that affected RTL localization.
- Fixed an issue where some users who configured toolbars did not have the Back and Forward buttons ( bug 426026 )
- Firefox 3.0.2 adds new root certificates that use Extended Validation (EV).
- On certain IDN sites, the password manager incorrectly substituted saved logins and passwords into the fields.
- Fixed several hangs and crashes that occur when using screen readers.
- Updated Russian spell check dictionary. Also in the dictionary added support for the letter "E".
- Several Mac-specific issues have been fixed:
- In some cases, the hot keys stopped working.
- Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese characters could not be entered (using IME) in the Flash object text fields ( bug 357670 )
- Firefox 3.0.1 did not work if the user profile was stored in the AFP directory ( bug 417037 )
- For information on previous changes, read the Firefox 3.0.1 release notes .
It would seem all is well and good. But many have noticed a bug with saved passwords. When upgrading from previous versions, some users do not save and do not display old passwords (this is due to non-Latin characters in the database of stored passwords).
There are several ways to get rid of this:
- Put Firefox 3.0.1 over 3.0.2
- Go to the profile and find the signons3.txt file there, open it and convert the encoding to UTF-8 (it used to be ANSI) also on the Mozilla Russia forum, it is advised to delete the lines with "curc"
What exactly the fix is related to this bug - I don’t know, most likely with “On certain IDN sites, the password manager incorrectly substituted saved logins and passwords in the fields.”
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/40790/
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