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The same people who were in charge of opening up security bugs are still around and still in charge of it.

Security bugs are opened up once in-the-wild usage of affected versions is low enough, if I recall correctly. This usually takes a while after the fix is shipped. At no point were bugs opened up immediately after the Firefox release with the fix shipped. It's usually a year or so between the fix being shipped and the bug getting opened up, in my experience.




Ah, okay, thanks! My (very unreliable) memory thought it was sooner; that was why I picked 66 (released in March) rather than 67 (May).

The security issues in 60.0.2 (June 6 2018) is now public.




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