When at First You Don't Succeed - Release Firefox Again!

Under the motto presented in the title of this article, Mozilla is hard at work on an update for an update for Firefox 2.0. While I do agree that the repetition is not all that pleasant, it does serve its purpose, that is to reflect reality. And the fact of the matter is that as Mozilla dropped the Firefox 2.0.0.10 stability update a couple of days ago, it managed to have a negative impact on the Canvas.drawImage method, used by the open source browser. Now, as a direct consequence, Firefox 2.0.0.10 has problems when displaying some images, returning an error message instead.

The issue was introduced with version 2.0.0.10 of the open source browser, as reports indicate that previous variants of Firefox 2.0 were unaffected by the problem. Firefox 2.0.0.10 was designed to increase the stability of the browser, as well as to resolve three security vulnerabilities. The bug has been officially reported to Mozilla.

"It is display following error message. "error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIDOMCanvasRenderingContext2D.drawImage]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: http://developer.mozilla.org/samples/canvas-tutorial/3_1_canvas_drawimage.html :: anonymous :: line 12" data: no]," revealed Kevin Han.

All you have to do in order to reproduce the error is to access this link via Firefox 2.0.0.10., as from now on there is little that users can do, except avoiding the deploy of Firefox 2.0.0.10, while at the same time taking the risk to remain exposed to attacks targeting one of the three vulnerabilities patched by the update.

Mozilla is currently building Firefox 2.0.0.11, which is expected to become available soon in order to fix the Canvas.drawImage method bug. A nightly build of Firefox 2.0.0.11 has been already delivered to developers and testers, but at this time Mozilla offered no indication of the specific date when it will release the update.