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Firefox 1.0.1 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

homeobocks writes "Firefox 1.0.1 has been officially released by the Mozilla Foundation, with some important security fixes. An announcement and release notes are available." Presumably this fixes the window injection vulnerabilities.

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  1. IDN Problems Fixed? by michaelhood · · Score: 5, Informative

    From changelog: International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode.

    (wiki linkage mine).

    1. Re:IDN Problems Fixed? by typhoonius · · Score: 5, Informative

      Anyone who's bored can try out the original proof of concept.

      In Firefox 1.0, it displays as "http://www.paypal.com/"; in Firefox 1.0.1, it displays as "http://www.xn--pypal-4ve.com/".

  2. Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If the downloads for Firefox become overloaded today/tomorrow, Coral cache mirrors:

    http://download.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/?product =firefox-1.0.1&os=win&lang=en-US Windows
    http://download.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/?product =firefox-1.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-US Linux

    1. Re:Mirrors by joeldixon66 · · Score: 5, Informative

      From Asa's Blog:

      "We're still working on some with the application update infrastructure and the installer so for the first few days, we'll only be offering the release via full download at the website and then turning on the automatic update system hopefully sometime next week."

    2. Re:Mirrors by Myen · · Score: 5, Informative

      Since you're linking to the en-US version anyway...
      BitTorrent links in case the servers really go to crap. (Theirs, not mine)

    3. Re:Mirrors by Rirath.com · · Score: 5, Informative

      I installed 1.0.1, then reinstalled 1.0 because I like the Textzoom extension. This hasn't been officially updated to 1.0, but extensionsmirror has a link to a version patched for 1.0 installs.

      Since it's not being maintained, I'll probably eventually have to give it up, but I won't for such a minor Firefox update.

      Actually, no you don't. Changing extension maxlimits is trival.

      - First, find your profile. In Explorer find: %appdata%\Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\extensions

      - Second, open Extensions.rdf with notepad, metapad, etc.

      - Third, find and replace any of:
      em:maxVersion="1.0"
      With em:maxVersion="5.0"

      And you're good to go. You can put any number you want, but I like 5.0 just to make it easier, especially with nightlies in the past. You could also use about:config to lower your version number, but that could have other side effects. Now, if doing this makes your extension not work because of code changes (rarely) or somehow borks your profile (highly doubtful), use at your own risk. :)

      And Extensionsmirror.nl is a great place to find prebumped extensions.

  3. Re:Check Updates... by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    We'll be turning on the application update mechanism starting next week. Given the daunting task of updating all 27+ million people who have downloaded and are using Firefox today, we've elected to stagger the update over several days.

    --Asa

  4. Be kind to the mirrors, use official bittorents!!! by Jedbro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Be friendly to the Mozilla.org mirrors, they
    have set up an official Bittorent seeder.

    -Jed

    ( http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ )

  5. Re:How do I automatically kill history in Firefox? by PReDiToR · · Score: 5, Informative

    Grab the Kiosk extension from extensionsmirror.nl.

    Or you could go to Tools > Options > Privacy > Clear all (under Windows).

    --

    Do not meddle in the affairs of geeks for they are subtle and quick to anger
  6. Re:Check Updates... by cshields2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It will most likely not be staggared for the next release, as we will have a major infrastructure upgrade by then allowing the update service to survive the hit all at once. The staggaring had to be done at this point in time.

    Cheers!

  7. No more mr. Memory Hog by Daedalon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows users who have problems with Mozilla software (Firefox, Thunderbird or Suite) being too slow or using too much memory and CPU, check out the Moox optimized builds.

    One of my friends reported having constantly about 100 MB more free memory after switching to Moox M2 in his Athlon XP. A bit of a warning though: I tried to install original 1.0.1 over Moox M2 1.0, and it now crashes every time I press enter in the URL bar. Now typing in Internet Explorer, I'm anxiously waiting for Moox optimized 1.0.1 builds to come out and solve the situation.

  8. Re:Change Log by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firstly, don't plagarise. Cite your sources. Your list is an exact copy of http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.1 .html.

    Secondly, if you do plagarise, make sure you steal the right frigging document! You posted a changelog for the not-yet-released Firefox 1.1. This is Firefox 1.0.1. Its changelog can be found at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0 .1.html.

  9. Re:On this subject by dotgain · · Score: 5, Informative
    BTW the workaround for the rendering bug you encounter on /. is to increase the size of your text then decrease it again (Ctrl +, Ctrl -).

    I dunno if it is a slashdot bug or not. It seems to me that if you can fix it with this workaround, then's it's a Mozilla bug (it does it there, too). Yes they definitely should use CSS, but since it's such an ugly site, it'll probably still look better in lynx.