Mozilla pauses Firefox 78.0 rollout, prepares Firefox 78.0.1

[HarborFront]

Mozilla paused the rollout of the new stable version of the Firefox web browser that it released yesterday. The organization published Firefox 78.0 and Firefox ESR 78.0 yesterday, and has made the new version available via the browser's internal updating system and as a direct download from the official website.

The rollout had to be stopped because of a bug that some users of the browser experienced after installation of the new version. According to the official bug report -- Search engines are gone with v78.0 -- , all search engines were gone after the upgrade to the new version.

The reporter noticed other issues including that Firefox would not display any one-click search engines in the address bar, that auto-complete functionality did not work anymore, and that that search function on Firefox's default New Tab page did not work either................

................. Mozilla plans to release Firefox 78.0.1 later today to the public. Firefox users who use automatic updates in the browser may notice that the browser is upgraded from an earlier version straight to Firefox 78.0.1 and not to Firefox 78.0 as expected.

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Mozilla pauses Firefox 78.0 rollout, prepares Firefox 78.0.1 - gHacks Tech News

Mozilla paused the rollout of the new stable version of the Firefox web browser that it released yesterday and will release Firefox 78.0.1 Stable and ESR later today.

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Mozilla paused the rollout of the new stable version of the Firefox web browser that it released yesterday. The organization published Firefox 78.0 and Firefox ESR 78.0 yesterday, and has made the new version available via the browser's internal updating system and as a direct download from the official website.

The rollout had to be stopped because of a bug that some users of the browser experienced after installation of the new version. According to the official bug report -- Search engines are gone with v78.0 -- , all search engines were gone after the upgrade to the new version.

The reporter noticed other issues including that Firefox would not display any one-click search engines in the address bar, that auto-complete functionality did not work anymore, and that that search function on Firefox's default New Tab page did not work either................

................. Mozilla plans to release Firefox 78.0.1 later today to the public. Firefox users who use automatic updates in the browser may notice that the browser is upgraded from an earlier version straight to Firefox 78.0.1 and not to Firefox 78.0 as expected.

Read more here

Mozilla pauses Firefox 78.0 rollout, prepares Firefox 78.0.1 - gHacks Tech News

Mozilla paused the rollout of the new stable version of the Firefox web browser that it released yesterday and will release Firefox 78.0.1 Stable and ESR later today.

www.ghacks.net

Mozilla is almost beating Microsoft in low quality control for updates...

 

[RejZoR]

Mozilla is almost beating Microsoft in low quality control for updates...

And they both have in common adding dumb idiotic features and sticking with them even though entire world is screaming at them how stupid they are. They also both heavily use telemetry over thoughtful design and user feedback. It's almost as there is some sort of correlation, but can't figure out what...

 

[South Park]

I was not affected by the search bug. However, I had to go to great lengths to turn off all telemetry in Firefox. Martin Brinkmann has a good article (updated in 2019) about how to do it: How to disable the Firefox Saved Telemetry Pings and archive folder - gHacks Tech News

 

[marg]

Mozilla has run Firefox into the ground from what it once was IMO. How sad.

 

[Cortex]

Default setting of privacy conscious FF are among the worst of any browser, only after having a good look around can you disable them, something some users wont do.