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Firefox 3.6.6: because with 370 million users, sometimes you need a mulligan
While the feature is designed to keep your browser from crashing when a plugin -- like Adobe Flash Player -- becomes unresponsive, Mozilla was a little overzealous with their initial timeout setting: 10 seconds. While that might be fine for Download Squad staff and readers, there are a whole lotta people running Firefox these days -- about 370 million of them.
That means, of course, that you'll find Firefox on all kinds of systems -- some of which can't load a Flash game like FarmVille in less than 10 seconds. Hence the quick patch: Mozilla bumped the timeout from 10 seconds to 45 seconds, allowing pokey 'puters everywhere to enjoy their favorite Time Wasters once again.
Huzzah!
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Subscribe to commentsoctoberasianJun 28th 2010 2:59PM
Such a silly reason. First time I have heard of a software update because of a Facebook game of all things.
The people behind Farmville just need to make it load faster...
3tearJun 28th 2010 3:04PM
It wasn't just Farmville. Here's a link to the discussion about the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574905
Android underlingJun 28th 2010 3:09PM
Boring.... still waiting for firefox 4.0
finding.zen89Jun 28th 2010 5:36PM
Well, at least the whole browser doesn't crash, that's a good thing. But bad because now I see how often that stupid game crashes. It's a time waster certainly.
alahmnatJun 28th 2010 9:27PM
I dunno, I think seeing how often a game crashes, while annoying, would be a positive motivator for both Adobe and Zynga to put together an app that doesn't freaking crash all the time, thereby improving the performance and stability of the game for all players.
Why do I get the feeling Adobe is going to be getting more and more heat from the public for its crap software now that it can be positively identified as the source of a browser's poor performance and reliability in an increasing number of platforms? Again, this can only be considered a good thing...
BootedEagleJun 28th 2010 6:12PM
They skipped 3.6.5 to sync Firefox's mobile and desktop versions' version numbering.
Source: http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-next-firefox-platform-version-is-1-9-2-6-instead-of-1-9-2-5/
ZargggJun 29th 2010 5:18PM
I was just about to call "Editor Research FAIL" on that. BootedEagle has it exactly.
mrickJun 29th 2010 6:31PM
Flash is not blameless, but I don't see anybody blaming a C++ compiler when their Apple Mail app crashes. They blame the developer. There are a lot of ways to write bad code after all. I like what Chrome is doing which allows all plug-ins to operate in their own safe process. That's a good thing.