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Firefox 1.0.1 Released

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. Yeeehaaa (but...) by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    from tfa:

    You can now make links opened by other applications open into a new tab, reuse an existing tab, or open a new window.

    Does it play well with Tabbrowser extension?

    Usually any app that does this kills off my saved session. (grrrr).

    Here's hoping.

    And, isn't msi support supposed to be available?
    (if it is there I did not see it)

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  2. Re:Mirrors by iethree · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it would me much more convenient (and probably less bandwidth-intensive) if they allowed us to update Firefox through the built-in update feature.
    At least Micro$oft doesnt make you totally re-download IE everytime they patch it.

  3. Re:Mirrors by PReDiToR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I did that, I found that Session Saver and Foxy tunes have updates available, but Firefox doesn't.

    I guess they haven't put the updates on the server yet?

    Screw it, I downloaded the whole thing and it took 20 seconds. I closed FF, Zipped up ProgFiles\MozFF and DocSet\User\AppDat\Moz, installed FF 1.0.1 and loaded it up.

    Took less thAn 2 minutes to do all that, I'm updated and no extensions broke.

    Pretty cool. Didn't even need a fricken reboot like IE would have.

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  4. New Download Count? by Denver_80203 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would be interesting to see how many people download 1.0.1 over time vs 1.0. Statistically it would be hard to say how many people upgraded, didn't upgrade, first copy of firefox was 1.0.1 but, I would like to see the number seperately.

  5. Re:How can I find out? by IWannaBeAnAC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow. This statement epitomizes everything that has gone wrong with slashdot!

  6. Re:I'm excited by tritonic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    True, some people seem a bit worried that Slashdot.org is turning into FireFoxNews.org. But I'm with you

    Remember that it's not just one geek-friendly browser we're talking about here - the future of the entire internet's at stake. The popularity of this one browser could be the only thing that prevents the web turning into a microsoft-dominated proprietary system a few years down the line, destroying any chance linux might have had on desktop machines.

    And if that's not an exciting and important Slashdot story, I don't know what is.

  7. Re:Be kind to the mirrors, use official bittorents by trawg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been seeding these for about 1/2 hour with only 30mb uploaded (--max_uploads 100) - I'm sure there's a lot of people seeding, but it would have been great to see a link to the BitTorrent mirror page in the news post to spare the mirrors. I can't figure out why more slashdot news posts aren't edited when there is a BitTorrent link added for the content referred to in the item (especially when its an official torrent provided by the content creators!)

  8. Re:Be kind to the mirrors, use official bittorents by kinema · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As Bittorrent has become so popular one has to wonder why FF doesn't support it natively or via plug-in as a download method.

  9. Re:IDN Problems Fixed? by Rits · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hush, it's the ascii-reading world that needs protection. Or at least, they decide who needs protection from spoofing...

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  10. Re:On this subject by jrest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, but I can't find such an increase. There is a small spike, but not really significant. Also, in the cumulative graph nothing major happens.
    In fact, I come to the opposite conclusion: there was no noticable increase afterward.

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