What's New in Mozilla 1.7.12

This document outlines the important bugfixes in Mozilla 1.7.12. See the "rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of 1.7.12 fixes.

New Features and Fixes

Under the Hood
  • Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
  • Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
  • Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
  • Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
  • Fix a crash in mail when stopping a search and then searching again
  • Other stability and security fixes

New Issues

These are items that have been added to the Known Issues page since the last milestone, although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.

General