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Mozilla Firefox 1.02 Released
akadruid writes "Mozilla has begun rolling the Firefox 1.02 security update. It has appeared with the little fanfare and without the staggered rollout of 1.01 - have Mozilla sorted their distribution worries?"
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Can anyone explain to me the best way to upgrade Firefox? Updating from 1.0 to 1.0.1 seemed to leave two instances of Mozilla on my desktop. Should I uninstall the old before installing the new? I don't want to lose all my settings/bookmarks/etc.
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I got my auto-update notification in FireFox, ran the "wizard" to update, and am now posting from 1.0.2. Update completed before the /. story was posted! (/. is my normal update notifier) Nice work Mozilla!
I was really hoping this patch fixed those pop-unders I started getting lately.
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Firefox was crashing when the address bar received focus. After the upgrade, problem resolved...
i just looked at my add/remove and i have all the vesrion from 0.9 to 1.02 listed, its a damm mess
if they didnt put version numbers in the installer it would just overwrite the old entry and the problem would be solved (i hate to think what state the registry is in), as it is at the moment its a damm mess and most unprofessional
and when i upgraded i just had an setup.exe on my desktop, great upgrade, perhaps they want to make my desktop a mess with their installers now they have ruined the add/remove section, luckily XP can remove dead entries (when the app has been removed), windows 9X users wont be so lucky
3/10 for effort so far
If Firefox incorporated a bittorrent agent inside the browser for updates. Simple click and launch a bittorrent download - then install followed by some minimal upload time - say 5 minutes of bandwidth
... heh heh
that would be cool
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Ever going fix this?
Its not so bad on my work comp, but downright embarrasing on my girlfriend's laptop when there's 5 Firefox entries in the Add/Remove Programs dialog.
Anyone else having problem with the autoupdate not doing anything? I "Check Update" and was given an option to install 1.0.2, so obviously it knew 1.0.2 is out.
However after clicking on "Install Now" it just shows "downloading and installing updates" but there is no internet connection at all, so it's not really doing anything.
Otherwise can I please have a link to download the patch? Last time I went mozilla.org but couldn't find the patch, and had to download the whole 4.3MB 1.0.1
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
It seems there are no official zip builds for formal releases. Asa's blog explains why and suggests that those looking for them "look at the build ID in the final release, and get the same nightly build from the same branch".
Only problem? The release notes don't specify the build ID, so you have to run the installer first. When you do that, you discover the build ID is 20050317. Only there don't (currently) appear to be any 1.02 zip builds in any of the aviary directories for 20050317.
Am I missing something?
I'm waiting for their long-awaited IM program to come out. It would be very nice to have a Mozilla-based IM program.
Before you walk a mile in someone's shoes, you should insult them so you know how they are and what they're doing.
How it is an update when it acts as a total re-install?
:) don't find it the least bit suprising that the only things that properly file away under the "updates" category are (some, the newer ones) microsoft stuff.
I love how firefox/thunderbird keep filling up my Add/Remove Programs list in XP everytime there is an "update".
firefox isn't the only program that behaves like this....
i like how it (a&r) says "last used: 11/10/04". i didnt know i stepped back in time, because well, i was using it when i upgraded... 3/23/05, and 11/10 is the day after 1.0 (never bothered with 1.0.1 on this system) was installed; and "used: rarely".. as in EVERYDAY? how much more often do i have to use it to get "used: infrequently" ?
the upgrade went sooo un-microsoft-like smooth. didn't even bother with uninstall of previous version, just did the in-program update icon on the toolbar and let it do it's thing.. didn't ask for the friggin original cd, the cd key or to be activated again or anything... [grr..]
theme (http://www.phoenity.com/ - a nice one, btw) still intact, custom toolbar configuration left alone too.. only have a couple of extensions and those are ok too.
Firefox didn't eat my boot sector, but after upgrading from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 firefox crashed with an error telling me to restart the computer every time I started it (it being firefox). I uninstalled and reinstalled and, and not only did it work fine, but I still had all of my extensions and bookmarks.
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After the install I was informed that my extensions were disabled until new ones come out to ensure compatability. I can understand why that could be important for major updates but will I have to lose my gmail notifier every time a minor bug fix comes out?
However, this was where I found out, so I can't take all the credit :^)
My digital rights don't need management.
Wasn't that the mantra when it was in its pre-1.0 days. I remember people complaining then, but the response was "it's not yet 1.0, what do you expect".
Now that it is an official release, I don't think expecting users to uninstall before installing an 'update' is the best way to go.
BTW. It does seem to operate without doing an uninstall first. I went from 1.0 to 1.0.1, then to 1.0.2 without uninstalling first. Though the entires are all listed in Add/Remove (not that I much care).
Firefox/Thunderbird auto-update is currently worth crap. Just download the new version and use the silent install option: ie.) Firefox_Setup_1.0.2.exe -ms
The same thing works for Thunderbird. Usually I think it deletes the old Add/Remove options. (or at least one of them..) This is the most convenient quick-and-dirty way to update a bunch of machines in a small Windows domain.. put that command in everyone's login script the night before.
"When ever I access my mail account at https://mail.yahoo.com, [with Firefox 1.0x] the browser crashes when I log out."
Score: 0 Offtopic
"I hate those smilie popups which seems to be unblockable, please make them go away. [which is to say Firefox still isn't blocking all popups]
Score: 0 Offtopic
"I hope this fixes the problems with this document contains no data."
Score: 0 Troll
"Open source software can react far faster to new threats than any closed source development model."
Score: +5 Informative
Mmmm gotta love that pure Slashdot fanboi machine. Work in a plug for Linux or Open Source, instant +5. Mention a valid and existing bug with the open source software the post is about, you're an offtopic troll, probably a NAMBLA member or Nazi too. Die!
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
I'm afraid I think it is unprofessional, just like having the Windows icon display in Firefox on Win9x is unprofessional. They're cutting corners in areas Microsoft never would, which doesn't bode too well.
Imagine the messes sysadmins have to clean up because of those two flaws. It's a subtle rebuke to using Firefox. A minor one, but nonetheless.
You have to be really careful when installing. The very last page (Your install finished successfully, blahblahblah) has two checkmarks: one resets your homepage to Firefox's default, the other launches Firefox after hitting the Finish/Done button. It's only been like that the last few releases. Hard to catch if you're click-happy during installs.
Firefox didn't let me know about the new version, I had to read it on Slashdot or I wouldn't even know.
I told it to "Check now" for updates, and got this error:
"Firefox was not able to find any available updates"
Umm, there is an available update, a whole new version.
Maybe the Firefox team should have Firefox check the Slashdot RSS feed to see if it needs updates.
Sigh.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
When do they start pushing this security updates to me? Or manage to inform me when I first open my browser, not when I browse to the /. website??
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So, I updated on my work comp, and it now has some really odd issues.
It hijacked my homepage to put mozilla homepage on it, even though I unchecked that option.
when I change it back to my homepage, it loads with my homepage just fine on boot, but when I click the home button in the toolbar, I get sent to the moz homepage. WTF?!
Any one else seeing that? any idea how to fix this?
badger
IDK, I think Opera makes up a nice Internet Suite. Heck, that's reason #2 it get's bashed by most FF Fans.
I recently tried Thunderbird when I was having an IMAP issue with Eudora 5.2, but I realised how much I liked having eudora keep everything in one window, kind of like tabbed browsing. Thunderbird, at least by default, started popping up new windows to compose mails. Then Eudora started working again for some reason, so there went thunderbird.
Opera, Proxomitron-Grypen,GPG 0x0A1C6EE3
Really? Mmmm, I've found Trillian 3 to be very slick looking, and incredibly stable. Well, 0.74 was stable too. Never crashed for me. I mean, never in 3 years of use.
I've also noticed on my crappy campus connection that I'm keeping a connection to AIM via Trillian when everyone using AIM/Dead AIM is getting disconnected every 20 minutes or so.
Not to mention the nice easy encrypted IM's (I know, not perfect, but combined with direct connections, likely good enough for most. Hey, if anyone want's to do a plugin that implements a GPG
interface, I'll be the first to use it. I won't switch IM clients though, I cannot stand the interface of any other one I've tried. This included GAIM (Huge, Ugly, One network feel), Miranda (Small, Unstable, unpolished), AIM(Ads.))
YMMV of course.
Opera, Proxomitron-Grypen,GPG 0x0A1C6EE3
I was thinking they should spend more time making the browser not crash all the time, take less than 10 seconds to start on a 2.6GHz machine w/ 512MB RAM, perhaps not screw up horribly and stay resident after exiting the GUI.
After that, work can get done to fix the installer, and then make the installation customizable so that you can have corporate rollouts and silent installs. Maybe they can learn to use the standard installation formats that some OS' offer (like MSI on Windows).
Then work can start on making the GUI not ass slow, and perhaps the occassional native UI element. After that they can look into how to stop independantly themeing the app, and use the OS built in theme functionality.
And just in case anyone insists it's just me and this is the best piece of software ever: This is very common. Most people have this problem. Everyone I've met that uses Firefox has these problems.
Yeah, I agree. Also, I don't like Firefox. It gives me less control than Mozilla, at least in the preferences. It doesn't give control over major things that Mozilla does (to know that of which I speak, run through the prefs on both assuming someone HATES plugins and Javascript and blinking text and other annoyances foisted upon us by the idiots who first created Netscape).
Mozilla isn't perfect, but it is better than Firefox in most ways. I install just the browser part of Mozilla and add Adblock (a godly add-on indeed!) and I'm happy.
When it comes to email, NONE of the programs mentioned do more than suck. At home I run Eudora on my Mac and curse the greedy fuckers at Qualcomm. At work I have to use Outlook and curse the incompetent fuckers at Microsoft (and our internal IT department, too).
What were we talking about again?