Mozilla planning to release Firefox 8.0.1 for users experiencing crashes with Roboform add-on, they’re planning to blocklist Roboform add-on<7.6.2 (hard blocker), it seems Roboform version 7.5.2 is the culprit. Windows, Mac and Linus operating system and Firefox 8 browser and above versions are affected.
This is the optional update, users not using Roboform shouldn’t need to download this update.
“therefore, when we ship 8.0.1, the proposal is that users see the
following:
1a) users on 4.0 – 7.0.1 should get updates to 8.0.1
1b) users who want to download Firefox should find 8.0.1 on mozilla.org.
2a) users on 8.0 mac should get idletime/manual check-for-updates to 8.0.1
2b) users on 8.0 win32/linux should not get idle-time updates to 8.0.1.
For mechanical reasons, this also means that users on 8.0 win32/linux
cannot do manual check-for-updates to 8.0.1
Later, when we ship FF9.0:
3a) users on 8.0.1 would get partial updates from 8.0.1 -> 9.0
3b) users on 8.0 would get complete updates from 8.0 -> 9.0 “
Roboform extension blocklist request
Download Firefox 8.0.1
So Firefox 8 users experiencing crashes with Roboform needs to download the update provided above, manually checking for updates won’t work as stated above.
We’ll update this post when we hear more from Mozilla.
Update : Mozilla removed download links for Firefox 8.0.1 from their servers they seem to be planning another release meanwhile you can download Firefox 8.0.1 for Windows from here.
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Wow, thank you so much this is so helpful to me. I’ve been using a roboform before but my firefox browser is always crashing. Now I can finally use my browser and the roboform without experiencing crashes.
Thank you for posting this!
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Michelle
Siber Systems
We are pushing the latest version of RoboForm, ver 7.6.3.
It does not crash any Firefox from 4 to 11.
Roboform version 7.5.2 could indeed be causing crashes.
It was the early version that introduced the new RF adapter.
I hope that version 7.5.2 will be updated by most users soon,
to the new good version 7.6.3 or later.
That’s just shows the irresponsibility of Roboform developers. While it is possible that mistakes happen and the password manager might conflict with the browser – but what’s bad is that Roboform hooks DLLs into Firefox – can anyone answer why?
Never saw LastPass team hooking DLLs into a browser -if at all some functionality isn’t available using extension, they offer plug-ins for that.
Seriously – I am completely satisfied with LastPass – atleast it works excellent for me on Opera browser; don’t know about other browsers. I thought of trying Roboform but this news has destroyed my curiosity in trying Roboform.
Seriously, LastPass is better right now – Roboform must improve itself.
LastPass is great if you don’t value security at all. They have had multiple security issues in the past year where RoboForm has never experienced anything of the sort. Lastpass offers almost no support for a program that just isn’t as user friendly as RoboForm.
I don’t know about LastPass past but in the present days LastPass is better than Roboform.
Don’t know what happened to this but the links do not work and I can find no mention of a Firefox release 8.01 at Mozilla.
Check the update at the bottom of the post.
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