RHEA-2008:0479 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated packages that add enhancements and fix various bugs in upgrading
Firefox to version 3.0, are now available.

Description

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

This package upgrades Firefox to version 3.0.

Included in this upgrade is fixes to the following bugs:

• a text string from the preedit buffer in the first text box used to be

replicated in the second text box. This bug is corrected in this release.

• when first opening a Firefox browser window, the Mozilla hompage would

load instead of the set homepage. In these updated packages, the set
homepage will be the default loaded page when first opening Firefox.

• running Firefox in 32 bit mode on 64 bit processors, uses a 64 bit

library path. This is corrected in this update by testing for the
architecture before setting MOZ_LIB_DIR.

• when performing a search for the word "do", Firefox would crash. This

issue is rectified with this update.

• using Firefox in 64bit mode and loading the ext javascript library used

in Internet applications caused the system to either take a prolonged
amount of time or never load the page. This issue is corrected within this
package.

• using yelp printout, the output was corrupted. Updating to Firefox 3 with

these packages, corrects this.

• multiple library conflicts existed in xulrunner-devel. This conflict no

longer exists in this updated package.

• Firefox used to crash when printing from a website. This update corrects

this issue so that Firefox does not crash when printing.

• Firefox would not work correctly with Red Hat bugzilla. In order to

correct this issue, xulrunner has been updated in these packages.

• the language packs for Firefox did not work correctly and were disabled.

Included with this update is the corrected language packs.

• previously the preference setting for Firefox being the default browser

would not work correctly. This update correctly enables the ability to set
Firefox as the default browser.

• there was an issue with the validation of self-signed certificates. This

issue is corrected with this update.

• the browser would not render properly on a laptop with an external

display attached, displaying in an incorrect resolution. The patch that
fixes this issue, allowing for correct display, is included with these
packages.

• in the xulrunner component of Firefox, packages would not build on a

PowerPC 64bit processor because of an issue with the ppc64 target. The
issue is corrected in these packages with the ppc64 target operational.

As well, these updated packages add the following enhancements:

• multiple library confusion and dependency issues in regards to

libgtkembedmoz.so. This has been corrected within these packages by adding
xulrunner which is a common back-end runtime environment developed by Mozilla.

• when opening a file through the Firefox download manager the user was

prompted to specify an application in every instance. This package update
adds an enhancement of associating actions with file types in the download
manager.

Users of firefox should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 240681 - Running firefox in 32 bit mode on x86_64 uses 64 bit library path
• BZ - 246248 - firefox crashes when searching for word "do"
• BZ - 251745 - 32/64 bit Inconsistency with extjs
• BZ - 433323 - Firefox crash when printing
• BZ - 435477 - At least some langpacks are incomplete and untestable
• BZ - 440423 - [REHL5 U2] FireFox does not allow to override SEC_ERROR_INADEQUATE_KEY_USAGE
• BZ - 441757 - Brand firefox as firefox, not minefield
• BZ - 442129 - firefox does not always render at the proper resolution if the resolution is changed
• BZ - 444143 - Build regression on PPC64

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate