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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.
Have they released any info on new signups as a result of the Firefox 1.0 NY Times Advert?
serenity now!
From changelog: International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode.
(wiki linkage mine).
If the downloads for Firefox become overloaded today/tomorrow, Coral cache mirrors:
t =firefox-1.0.1&os=win&lang=en-US Windowst =firefox-1.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-US Linux
http://download.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/?produc
http://download.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/?produc
Let's say someone is finished browsing pr0n for the night and wants to clear the cache, history and cookies automatically on browser exit. Is this possible with Firefox via a setting or script?
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)
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
Firefox 1.0.1 is supposed to have only security and stability fixes. Unless an unstable engineer feels insecure about Slashdot fans complaining about the Slashdot bug, I don't think it'll be fixed until Firefox 1.1.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
Oops. On further exploration, I see that it's fixed in the trunk, and the fix will be included in the 1.1 release (I guess must have misread that to say 1.0.1). In the meantime, there's always the SlashFix extension.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
It's about time they fixed those security issues. I was getting tired of using Internet Explore in the meantime.
Does the security fix remove internet explorer?
Any word on if this includes fixes for the massive memory leaks in the OS X port? I know they were on track for 1.1, but it's possible they could have made their way into 1.0.1......
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
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
They removed default compatibility for international domain names. I wonder how much of an impact this will have on foreign adoption of Firefox over IE
None. IIRC they just turned off IDN support, and did not remove it. If someone needs it, the can turn it back on.
IE has no IDN support without third party software, so Firefox is still a better choice if you need IDN support.
The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
Here is the full list of changes and related bugs for Firefox 1.0.1.
You'll note that it's quite terse - this is not the 1.1 update from trunk that will get us rendering fixes, etc. that we'll see in June or so. Almost all security fixes here.
- Allen Pike
Altering time, one time at a time.
Your statement is misleading.
Support for IDNs is still present, it's just that after inputting a URL using an IDN domain name like http://www.göögle.com/, it is displayed as the punycore representation in the address bar: http://www.xn-ggle-5qaa.com/
The merits of this work around are certainly up for debate (hint: the debate started years ago).
Seeing as no currently shipping version of Microsoft Internet Explorer supports IDNs... you can probably stop wondering.Be friendly to the Mozilla.org mirrors, they
have set up an official Bittorent seeder.
-Jed
( http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ )
They are going to enable that in a few days, after those who know about the upgrade have cleared from the servers, lest they be fried.
I've gone back to 1.0 and there are no problems. here's a link to the windows 1.0 versions in case anyone else similarly needs to revert back.
Some of those self-same Slashdot fans are unstable engineers.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I'm gonna read about it tomorrow on Slashdot! Or maybe even later tonight!
Now if you're worried about putting too much strain on the Mozilla download servers, use the BT links!
Alternatively, this page lists translations and direct download links
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!
It's nice to see so much enthusiasm in the computer world. Personally, I've loved Firefox. It's nice to have the same browser in both Windows and Linux. Got it late (about 2 months ago), but it's done me good. I couldn't go back to non-tabbed browsing and no nested searches window. Also, scanned with ad-aware today. Only two files!!! Both in IE cache from the few times I've had to use IE for ActiveX integrated sites. Used to think 500 was normal. Thanks Firefox, and I expect more good coming from this.
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.
Here is an example how Firefox 1.0.1 shows IDN names.*
Click the Fake and Real link to see the difference.
The Fake site will not work with Internet Exporer with the latest service pack.
*Requires Firefox 1.0.1
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
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.
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.
Actually you don't need 1.0.1 to see how it works; spoofstick on 1.0 displays the bogus URL as xn--blah-blah-blah...
All's true that is mistrusted
You can also simply set the number of days in the History option under privacy to 0. An even better idea is to start firefox with the -profilemanager commandline paramater, create a special profile called somthing such as "noprofile", and set all the cache, history, cookies etc... to not be stored. You can then make a script/shortcut file that runs "firefox -profile noprofile" which will load that profile.
You can do things such as put an obviouly diffrent skin on it to make sure you arn't running the wrong profile and install flashgot to allow you to grab entire image/movie gallerys.
You can have a custom adblock filter list to remove nonrelevant images such as those backgrounds, banners and image borders that sites have which slows down your browsing.
Under linux I have everything setup to use an highly encrypted filesystem so nothing can be accessed without the password, if you have your images, firefox profile, and its starting script in there then noone will beable to find anything also because its encrypted and only accessable by you, you can leave the history to be saved and create bookmarks etc. Just remember to unmount the filesystem and clear the loopback device.
cat
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!)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24, @10:35PM (#11773968) Firefox Sucks! It's so slow to load. Much slower than IE. It doesn't even render pages properly. IE has always been perfect. What's this about Firefox vulnerabilities? IE with SP2 is much safer. Who uses Firefox? Only Linux zealots, hippies, and Mac users. Real computer users use IE. Us real computer users that actually have jobs will not deal with third-class software like Firefox. The moderating system did not hinder me from posting this. -Computer Expert.
Rofl
Who comes up with this stuff?
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.
Just so you know, if you're going to reinstall from scratch, I already read the EULA and no; there's no $1000 prize.
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