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As with every new Mozilla release, several security issues have been fixed, including some problems leading to remote code execution. Sadly, there has been no advisory so far.

A list of the fixes can be found here. Note that this list is probably incomplete.

When an Open Source organisation can give away money for each security bug and not go broke you might even be able to convince the bean counters in _your_ organisation from a pure security viewpoint...
First Security Bug Bounty Payments Awarded

I wonder if Microsoft will match the bounty...they could of course easily afford it, even though there would be a queue to collect money for IE security bugs.

I was just able to get them:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/0.10/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/ releases/0.8/

I was just able to get them:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/0.10/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/ releases/0.8/

It might be that you tried (as I did first) the link http://ftp.mozilla.org/... - which does not work.

I do not know how they set up the http interface (?) to their ftp server, but try using ftp instead. For me it did the trick. Someplace else I read it might be because using http for this enables the mozilla mirroring system, and the file might not yet be on all the mirrors...

Try it here.

check it out.. the rendering of the left column of Slashdot has been corrected in this release,
as noted under "Major Bug Fixes" #217527

I don't know how I feel about that
or what that says about the prominence of /.
or what that says about the priorities of the moz devs
...I'm so conflicted.

For a change, slashdot really got the scoop here. The release notes aren't even updated yet.

So far I have noticed a few new features. Search as you type now shows more info and has extra options. There is also a RSS button at the bottom right of the status bar for any page that has a RSS feed. Clicking on it creates a "Live Bookmark".

Anybody else notice other new features I missed?

Only negative thing so far is that my favourite extension (DownloadWith) no longer works ... but I suspect that will be fixed soon.

Here ya go!

• Live Bookmarks

  You can now subscribe to and read RSS feeds in your Bookmarks. When you visit a page that advertises a RSS feed by using a <link> tag, an (RSS) icon will appear in the status bar. Click it to view a list of feeds the page is offering. Click one to subscribe - this adds a Bookmark Folder that contains all the recent posts from the feed.

• Improved Find

  Find is easier and more powerful now with our new Find toolbar. The Find toolbar (which shows at the bottom of the browser window) automatically highlights text in the page as you type and has a useful highlight feature.

• Managing Annoyances and Protecting Security

  You can now open blocked popups, and the Extension install system now blocks all attempts to install software from sites other than update.mozilla.org. Users can add other sites to a list that allows them to offer software, but software is never automatically installed. In addition to these steps, several other measures have been taken to prevent phishing attacks and to highlight when a page is being viewed over a secure connection.

• Better Bookmarks

  Numerous improvements to bookmarks including more reliable presentation of Site icons, and a split pane view in the Bookmarks window.

• Strong Encryption For Passwords Available

  Passwords saved with the Password Manager can now be more easily encrypted with strong encryption by creating a "Master Password". If you create a Master Password, you are prompted once per session to enter the Master Password so that Password Manager can automatically fill in site logins. A useful feature for people who share computers with others and want improved security.

• Improved Compatibility for IE users

  Undetectable document.all support for site compatibility and improved compatibility for keyboard accelerators further smooth the transition for IE users

• Better System Integration for GNOME users

  You can now configure Firefox as your Default Browser on GNOME, and Firefox will adhere to your GNOME settings for edit field key bindings, etc.

• And a horde of other bug fixes...

There are none... :-/

Working on it: bug 159999

Use the pages on mozilla.org: Firefox, Thunderbird.

Use the pages on mozilla.org: Firefox, Thunderbird.

You can get around it by just going to the Mozilla homepage. It seems to only be the news page that's hosed. I downloaded both apps just fine.

Noticed that Thunderbird now includes RSS Integration... yay! Now all I need is SynCE support...

Love Firefox, but I wish they'd fix the bugs.

I am still stuck at Firefox 0.8 under Linux with Enlightenment due to serious focus problems with the recent releases.. And I do not want to be left behind!

I open everything in new windows and usually close them using the keyboard. That does not work if the focus is wrong, etc. Mouse-centric folk won't notice this much but it is a killer for me.

I think this is the bug and it looks like it is being ignored:

252178

The JRuby article is part of the alt.lang.jre series, with announced articles about "Rhino, Nice, and NetRexx, and many other exciting alternate languages for the JRE". It looks like the articles are coming in this order, one around the beginning of each month.

The only thing i complain is, there should be a CTL and Pango enabled binaries available for linux for people viewing indian language sites(UTF-8 encoded).

// Slow startup after long periods of inactivity (minimized window or other)
// http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76831# c277
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", false);

Or just go to about:config and create a new pref with that name.

Why isn't RC1 on the front page of mozilla.org? Is it less stable than 0.9? If so, why call it a release candidate?

this will be our largest and most public release to date

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0 .10.html http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html#newin1.0pr1

Yay! The bug annoying me the most is apparently fixed. (Well, A quick tried showed that it works for me...)

Boo, The web developer extension doesn't work anymore :( .

Nevertheless, mozilla/firefox team: you rule.

Yet another proprietary mp3 file. Are the BBC going to include a Fraunhofer Institute MP3 licence for every listener? I somehow doubt it. With Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora why is the BBC still clinging to these legacy formats? The beeb also promote Macromedia Shockwave Flash over SVG animations.

Proprietary "Apple QuickTime" clandestine format. Whats wrong with supporting modern formats like Ogg Theora BBC?

The BBC used to run BBC ogg vorbis streams. Sadly they have canceled these now. You can contact the BBC through their BBC GNU/Linux help page, and also the BBC Radio 4 Feedback Programme which is broadcast at 13:00 each Friday, if you too would like the BBC Ogg Vorbis radio services to restart.

"Mozilla/Gecko ...mature, powerful rendering engine"

hasn't anyone ever tried to write a validated webpage that works in mozilla/firefox? it's nigh impossible, if you expect to use all of the features of html4.01 transitional or css1.0

have a look here: Mozilla's quirks mode. It's actually necessary to trick the browser into getting even somewhat close to standards compliant, and even then the formatting is all screwy by half.

No problems in ie 4, 5 or 6. no problems in Opera or with khtml. I have no trouble testing sandards-validated pages QNX browser, mac OS/X, netscape 4 or with any other damn browser. Just the unholy troika of moz-firebrid-netscape.

I'm like, wtf?

If either the Mozilla or Trolltech pages had been updated in the last year, I might agree that this is old news. As it is, two developers with a lot of experience with KHTML seem interested in making this a viable port. It also seems that their approach may be more sustainable, such that Qt/KDE can be a fully supported peer of GTK+ as a Mozilla front end.

I hope that someone modifies the Gecko rendering system to something that can be a full replacement for IEs, and you can actually view a page the way its supposed to look while using IE (and all the programs that use IEs rendering engine for inline HTML proccessing).

Why would you want to use Internet Explorer if you couldn't use it to view sites that work render properly in IE? The improvement you speak of would only be useful if it were mandated by Microsoft, vastly increasing Gecko's userbase.
For a drop-in replacement for IE, you could just install Firesomething so you don't have to deal with all of IE's security problems.
Also, I'd expect that if any program uses embedded IE, it is for the purpose of viewing a small set of web pages that were specifically written for IE and hence could possibly render improperly if gecko was used instead.
The only program that I could think which uses embedded IE for general-purpose browsing is AOL.

In conclusion, use a real web browser whenever possible, and Internet Explorer only for "broken" sites.

Here's a nickle, kid. Get yourself a real browser

Interesting idea, would require a javascript interpreter somewhere though.

Not hard, apparantly. A developer I know recently slotted the Mozilla Javascript library into his app, to interpret one of those proxy.pac files. It only took him a day./p>

Type in "best browser" and you will get to.. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

That problem is easly solved. Get Firefox., It's better and has a builit-in popup blocker. As well a Google search by default. On the other hand, if you want more Google bells and whistles, add the Googlebar to Firefox. But if you're a Slashdot reader, you should know all this anyway.....

That problem is easly solved. Get Firefox., It's better and has a builit-in popup blocker. As well a Google search by default. On the other hand, if you want more Google bells and whistles, add the Googlebar to Firefox. But if you're a Slashdot reader, you should know all this anyway.....

Actually, yes it does make that possible, because even though Slashdot does not use CSS, CSS can be used to *override* /.'s HTML formatting.

See http://www.cc.puv.fi/~e0000274/itslash.png, css code at http://www.cc.puv.fi/~e0000274/slash.css.

Whole thing, and especially the image swapping is a kludge, but hey, it works, and looks non-it'y. I don't know CSS worth a crap so it's all done with try-and-error method.

Note that until http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238099 lands to Firefox (in 1.1, probably), this can and probably does affect colors of non-slashdot sites if put into userContent.css, so it's not really anything other than demonstration.

Hmm, I decided to try that, but the only copy option is 'copy image location', which copies the URL. This is for both Mozilla and Firefox. I tried dragging and dropping to two different applications. The first application only took the URL, while the second took the image.

BTW this was under MacOS X.

It's there, but the feature currently only exists in Windows version. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210043 (bugzilla and slashdot, you know the drill)

Maybe there is an extension to add 'copy image'.

There is that too, from a time it was not a browser feature, perhaps it works in non win32-platforms, perhaps it doesn't.

CDEX
IRFanView
Winamp
iTunes
FireFox w/AdBlock and various other extensions
Some music
Assorted pictures
Spybot & AdAware
XP SP2
DefilerPak
Novell VPN client
Citrix client
Farbrausch demos
PuTTY
and the all-important XEvil

Why did they remove composer from Firefox? They didn't. It was never there to begin with.

Thew whole point of Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and (standalone) Composer is that less bulk is better.

Personally I've never liked having to load an email program, and html editor when all I wanted to do was look at a web site. I never liked that about Netscape years ago and I don't like it about Netscape (and Mozilla) now.

I was thrilled when Firefox came out. Played with all the major players on Windows recently (Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Opera and IE) and the bottom line is, Firefox boasts the best feature/bloat balance of the bunch.

And the Mozilla swuite will be around forever, it just won't be developed (just maintained).

Eventually you'll be left in the dust from a technology standpoint. Mozilla plans to stop developing the suite and focus on individual components. They will maintain it, but not develop it

Get Firefox. Get text/plain. Stop worrying about links. :)

Try using the Disable Targets For Downloads extension, I think it may be what you are after.

There is a feature request filed for this at Bugzilla, however: RFE: "Open a JavaScript link in a new window"

Here's some more extensions I use that I haven't seen mentioned.

Dictionary Search: Lets you set up various online encyclopedias and dictionaries (e.g. Wikipedia, M-W.com) so you can highlight any word in a website, right click and get a definition for it.

Allow Right-Click: Allows you to right click on sites/objects that have that option disabled.

IEView: Adds the option to open the page in IE to the right-click context menu for those few sites who won't come out of the stone ages and believe MS is the end-all, be-all of browsers.

Basics: Adds a button to the tab bar to open new tabs. This was available in Mozilla and I missed it when I first moved to Firefox.

Unclose Tab: Sometimes I'll close the wrong tab by mistake. This extension allows you to right click the tab bar and re-open a tab you just closed.

Maybe it's my installation, but every time I try to install an extension either it doesn't install or I have to reinstall firefox because it won't start anymore.

That's been a major problem for a while, because extensions are/were essentially becoming part of the main program. You could uninstall them manually, but it was a tricky, fragile practice. Fortunately, Firefox 0.9 introduced a new extension manager that makes the process much easier -- if the extension author supports it. Which leads us to the next point.

I'd say the extensions system needs just a bit more work. And mind you, I've seen a lot of mozilla bugs as I've been with mozilla since version 0.8.x

Not all of the problems are with the extension system itself. An extension can be well or poorly written; it can have bugs, incompatibilities, etc., just like you won't always have a success with every program you see on freshmeat and try out. It's not automatically stable just because it's an extension. If the extension author has written their extension to support the new extension manager, it's easy to uninstall if you determine it's of no use to you, but ideally, a bit of research should be done before you try an extension out. Sites like ExtensionRoom and update.mozilla.org have a place for users to put reviews and comments, so it's a good idea to glance over those, and see if lots of other people have problems, before taking the plunge.

There's an extension called MozEX that allows you to use an external program for View Source.

TFA ended up describing the author's personal favourite extensions, so it kind of missed the point that there are extensions for almost everything, like what you need. Some good places to look for extensions:

• ExtensionRoom
• update.mozilla.org
• MozillaZine extensions forum (more intended for developers of extensions, but there are some neat finds there)

Like any other kind of software, extensions can vary in quality and stability. You might want to get other opinions of an extension you're considering before you install it. Fortunately, the new Extension Manager in Firefox 0.9 and up makes it easy to uninstall an extension. Before that came along, you had to do it manually which was tricky and easy to screw up.

Mozilla Firefox had terrible fonts on Linux. I know there is the possibility of using one compiled with xft. But where is it? Whenever a new release is announced, the version producing those bad fonts is what I find.

Their words: It is a pre-release product and should not be relied upon for mission-critical tasks.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/# download

Worryingly now, I have visions of some Indian doctor performing invasive surgery on some poor chap in another country using nothing more than a html interface and a shared 56k modem!

The documnetation for D&D and Clipboard documentation

If the clipboard does not work on your system then it is a bug and you should report it.

The documnetation for D&D and Clipboard documentation

If the clipboard does not work on your system then it is a bug and you should report it.

The documnetation for D&D and Clipboard documentation

If the clipboard does not work on your system then it is a bug and you should report it.

Middle click to open link in new window/tab

Too bad it doesn't work in OSX:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151249
Two years later it finally appears a patch is in the works....

Some wankers tried to steal its name.

...signed XPI?

I mean before all those bells and whistles. As a plugin developer i greatly miss them
(not this, but one that really works).

And pleaaaaaaase before you tell me it's useless, go ahead and try to convince some Joe user to install "unsigned hence possibly dangerous" plugin.