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Firefox Updated to 1.0.4
Exstatica writes "Firefox has been updated to 1.0.4 and they have fixed a few critical security holes, all javascript vulnerabilities. The Mozilla Foundation announced these vulnerabilities May 7th. 'There are currently no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities although a proof of concept has been reported." You don't have to upgrade, but it's recommended.'" We've reported on these vulnerabilities previously.
yes, I know the arguments behind it...but it would be relly nice if update didn't involve simply downloading installer (on mine 128kbps it's so so...and on slower?)
One that hath name thou can not otter
These issues were announced on Monday, and now a security release is available. This shows how professional the Mozilla Foundation has become and how serious they take security issues. Good work! Security problems will inevitably appear from time to time in all kinds of software, how these issues are handled is to me just as important as the software itself. Good job!
9/11: Never forget it was a false-flag operation
Posting from 1.0.4 right now. Funny thing, after I upgraded and restarted the browser, I still had the "updates available" little red arrow on the top right corner of the browser. After checking for upgrades (and finding none), it's disappeared. Bug? Leftover registry entry or config file from 1.0.3?
---- Take the Space Quiz!
This guy at work noticed I was using firefox (he's an IE user), and said, slyly, "You know, there's a couple of really bad security holes." Good think FF fixes their holes faster than MS.
Next time I try to help a friend out I'm not suggesting firefox. I'm suggesting Netscape! Wwwait.
Firefox 1.0.4 was posted sometime between 11 and 11:30PM last night EST. I got it about 11:40 :D (Yes, geek alert)
That aside, with all of these newfound vulnerabilities popping up so often, could Firefox become (later down the line) the new Internet Explorer? May seem highly unlikely now.. but as the New York Lottery says...
"Hey, you never know."
It should be noted that the Mozilla Suite has also relased an update, 1.7.8.
Mozilla.org will probably get hammered!! Here's a google cache of the Firefox Mirror List
And while you're at it don't forget those extensions:
FoxyTunes: http:www.iosart.com/foxytunes/firefox/
AdBlock: http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Or you can just go get more at: update.mozilla.org
Happy Browsing!
While I don't care for the update process, I am exceedingly impressed that Mozilla makes fixes so quickly, and doesn't try to hide them (like another browser company has done in the past). Professionalism...very nice to see this from Mozilla. Kudos!
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
Oh, and hats off to the Firefox devs for the scorching turnover on this flaw. When Firefox 1.1 comes out (with its more diff-style updated) the process will be even more streamlined and painless.
As a system admin for our company, every new Firefox release means that I will have to go around to 150 workstations and manually reinstall the browser again to keep it up to date. I wish there was some sort of way to remotely update the browser on all machines or a way to patch vulnerabilities without a full reinstall.
Why don't you upgrade your language from British English to American English?
That would solve both problems.
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Does middle clicking on a link open a new tab for OS X yet? The last I heard you had to patch FF to enable this feature. Middle clicking works fine on Safari, it's one feature I really miss when using FF on OS X.
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My wife pointed out an article on Google News (that I had already seen earlier) showing that Firefox had some security vulnerabilities. She winced because I had just converter her to Firefox. I told her not to worry. I said, "Mark my words, there will be a security fix within a week." Well, today the fix was released and she was impressed. Not only has the Firefox development team improved the product, but they have made my wife happy! Life is good!
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
You can check for updates from Tools>Options>Advanced>Software Updates. If you use some themes, e.g. Littlefox, there is a button next to the Firefox home page 'circle' that you can click to check for updates.
As for your observation regarding the red flag, I believe The Mozilla Foundation had disabled that feature on the website because of one of the critical flaws now fixed.
-clueless
(I need to create a login here, or did I do it previously?)
I switched to Firefox because I was sick of using IE. Ever since I've switched, AdAware has found ZERO spyware/malware incidents!
To IE's meager defense, I'm sure there might have been a setting somewhere that might have tightened up the holes, but switching to Firefox has been easier. Plus, I'm addicted to the tabbed browing.
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
Although I've been an enthusiastic mozilla/firefox user & supporter since the late 90s (yes I was browsing with a 'naked' gecko control, HA! :P) I was surprised to find I'd lost track of development to the extent that I didn't realise the trunk builds have a much more up-to-date gecko engine. The gecko in the 1.0.x series (inc. 1.0.4) are a year old! Those users who prefer livin' on the edge might prefer to get a faster, smaller, much less memory-leaky build from:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nigh tly/latest-trunk/
...FireFox downloads double to 100 Million!
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
You know, you don't have to wait for Firefoux to come out, you can just use the regular old Firefox..
... as soon as the first proof of concept evolves into a worm, they will experience what it means to be deployed on millions of internet-connected pc's of clueless users.
Rule #1: doesn't matter how fast you output a security update, if it's not being installed.
Unfortunately it's not enough for an update to _exist_.
Back in the day when I first downloaded FireFox, one of my favorite parts of using it was how fast it would load up the first window when opened. It was almost instantaneous.
The more I use it, the longer this actions takes. It doesn't matter if I clear cache and cookies, un-install plugins, or just plain uninstall and reinstall the browser.
Is it simply the newer versions that cause it to load so slowly? My roommate has the same problem. Is anyone else experiencing this and is there an answer?
Responses greatly appreciated. Thanks.
about:config
extensions.disabledObsolete = false
Regards,
Steve
Disclaimer: I like firefox. I use firefox.
Why is this news? Does this mean that every time firefox decides to update, it should be front page news? Can't you (slashdot) create a seperate field where the latest versions of popular products are announced? Like:
product | version | last update
firefox | 1.0.4 | today
Boy, I cannot agree with you more. If you have half a clue, then IE is easy to make secure. I just went into Tools - Internet Options and set the Security policy to Restricted Sites, turned on popup blocking (after I obviously installed SP2), set my Privacy level to High (because everyone except an idiot knows this is how to disable Cookies), and then installed all the hot fixes from MS. If you are too lazy to maintain your software properly then you shouldn't even have a computer. Just get a Mac or something.
It's like all those people who complain about safety problems in cars. My Pinto is safer than almost every car out there. All that with almost zero risk of theft. I strapped some padding onto the rear bumper and put some steel reinforcement plating around the gas tank. There is almost no risk to myself or my passengers of a ruptured fuel tank, all because I took the time to fix an inherent problem in the design of the ... wait .... err ... I gotta go.
Well, generally I agree with you. However, when it comes to correctly rendering UTF-8 pages, specially with Arabic characters, firefox has some very well known bugs that have not been fixed now for ages. The most annyoing one is a bug in rendering arabic decimal number: It shows all numbers like 1.4 as 4.1! Of course, IE renders such pages perfectly.
Of course, there were settings you could change that would fix that. They were in Advanced>Settings>Options>Burning>Defaults>Input. You just had to uncheck "Always burn with error correction (may cause some discs to burn slower)" which simply fixed the garbled data, and "Always burn with high-precision laser" (so you don't get coasters). Checking those 2 boxes results in the application working perfectly every time.
Would anyone use that? No! People would laugh it off and comment on just how stupid it is. Why IE gets a free pass for almost the same transgressions is beyond me. Oh, wait, no it isn't -- it's because people started using it years ago and are afraid of changing to something better because it's "different." "I've already got those boxes checked."
I can't run the executable "firefox.exe" at work because it "has been disabled by the administrator." Solution? Rename to firefox2.exe.
The only pain comes when firefox is updated... it leaves the firefox2.exe executable from the previous installation, and adds the new firefox.exe to the install folder. It then becomes a dumb little task to update all the icons and shortcuts scattered about my system.
Wish there was some way to specify, during install, the resulting executable name. Of course, I have to be one of the maybe twenty people in the world who needs this, so maybe it's not worth the miniscule bloat.
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
It should be noted that 1.0.4 also features a JS bugfix which hastes said JS execution by around 20%.
...) is pure Javascript.
May sound like it suck... if you don't know that the whole XUL thing (basically everything in firefox but the Gecko engine itself: interface, extensions, userscripts,
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler