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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. On this subject by NoGuffCheck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have they released any info on new signups as a result of the Firefox 1.0 NY Times Advert?

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    1. 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.

    2. 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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    3. Re:On this subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      well, to be fair it's probably slashdot's HTML's fault

      Every single time this bug is mentioned, somebody blames it on Slashdot. Every single time, somebody else corrects them. Most of the time there's a reply saying something to the effect of "okay, so it's a bug in Firefox... but it's still Slashdot's fault!". And people continue to post comments like yours.

      What is it going to take to convince people that it's a bug in Firefox? Showing them the bugzilla entry doesn't work. Showing them valid HTML that exhibits the same problem doesn't work. Showing them Firefox developers talking about the bug doesn't work. Telling them that it's fixed in current nightlies doesn't work.

      Where the hell does this irrational superstition that it's Slashdot's fault come from? And why do you fools continue to post comments like this?

  2. 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/".

  3. 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 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.

    2. 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."

    3. 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)

    4. 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.

  4. Re:/. rendering by bunratty · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Whew! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's about time they fixed those security issues. I was getting tired of using Internet Explore in the meantime.

  6. Security Fix by krikat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the security fix remove internet explorer?

  7. 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

  8. 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/ )

  9. 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).

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  10. 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!

  11. Good Experience by CarlinWithers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Porn browsing tips for firefox =D by H3g3m0n · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  16. 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!)

  17. Re:Firefox sucks by billmustdie · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  18. Spoiler by CowsAnonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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