Mozilla Updates Firefox and Thunderbird, Again

A few days after it launched Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5, Mozilla Foundation announced Tuesday the availability of the 1.0.6 versions.


It seems that the 1.0.5 versions brought some changes to the API libraries which broke some extensions some Firefox and Thunderbird extensions.


"We received feedback on 1.0.5 from distributors and extension developers on API changes that affected them (not a security issue), so we're looking at a 1.0.6 to fix it.", said Rafael Ebron on behalf of the Mozilla Foundations. It is known that the Enigmail PGP extension for Thunderbird does not work in version 1.0.5.

According to Mozillazine, at the moment, the 1.0.5 releases of Firefox and Thunderbird are only available in American English (en-US). No localised builds have been placed online for download and localisation teams have been asked not do any further work on the 1.0.5 releases. It appears that these localised editions of 1.0.5 will be skipped altogether, with the next localised release being 1.0.6.