Mozilla Firefox

  1. Bug #236853
  2. Comment #65

Comment 65 for bug 236853

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In , Beltzner (beltzner) wrote :

(In reply to comment #58)
> (In reply to comment #56)
> > In the former case I suspect this:
> > http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.1/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/nsUpdateService.js.in#2415
> >
> > What hash algorithm is used for application updates signing? Is it SHA256?
>
> We switched from SHA1 to SHA512 for app. update hashes when 3.5b99 was
> released.

So does this mean that we can mitigate this crash by using a different SHA algorithm until we fix this bug? Most of the comments in the crash reports indicate that the crash happens on browser-close, which isn't as concerning to me.