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Mozilla Firefox 1.02 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-your-update dept.

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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  1. Best way to upgrade? by jfruhlinger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    jf

  2. Auto-update success by Owndapan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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!

  3. Disappointed by gnarled · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was really hoping this patch fixed those pop-unders I started getting lately.

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  4. Just in time... by ShineyMcShine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Firefox was crashing when the address bar received focus. After the upgrade, problem resolved...

  5. what would be very cool ... by bizitch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

    that would be cool ... heh heh

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  6. When are they gonna fix this? by pherthyl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  7. Ugh, no zip builds by thegrommit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

  8. Re:Cool by Ki+Master+George · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm waiting for their long-awaited IM program to come out. It would be very nice to have a Mozilla-based IM program.

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  9. Re:No need to panic... by Pyro226 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  10. Big bucks, no whammies, no Slashdot bias.. Beeowww by Proc6 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Let's see those true colors...

    "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!

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  11. Re:Cool by aaronl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.