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Firefox 1.05 Released

Posted by timothy on from the yay dept.

Zebbie writes "The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.05 today. The release notes indicate that there have been some 'security fixes' and 'improvements to stability.' From the web site: 'Firefox 1.0.5 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.' It is interesting that these security updates are not yet posted on the security advisories page."

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  1. Re:why 'automatic upgrade' not working? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mozilla always delays the automatic updates for a while to spare their servers the sudden mass downloading.

  2. Disable IPv6 by Rafikichi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Goto about:config in Firefox. Set this string to true: network.dns.disableIPv6 I don't know why, but having IPv6 enabled slows down the broswer incredibly in Linux... but not on Windows. Turn it off and Firefox loads pages like the rest of 'em.

    1. Re:Disable IPv6 by marcovje · · Score: 3, Informative


      IIRC it has to do with DNS hosts that don't answer at all (or correctly) to IPV6 DNS requests. Some bad home routers also are said to be a possible cause

      (From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68796 )

      When IPv6 is enabled on the client machine, mozilla does a AAAA lookup first,
      and if there is none, does a lookup for the A record. Correct response for a
      name server if there is no AAAA record (but the domain exists) is to return
      NOERROR, with an empty reply. The BBC server returned NXDOMAIN (which was
      incorrect), and mozilla exhibited correct behaviour by assuming that the domain
      did not exist.

      See also
      https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23160 7

    2. Re:Disable IPv6 by The+Wicked+Priest · · Score: 2, Informative

      To elaborate on this, the IPv6 thing isn't a problem in all distros, but it was (for me) in Ubuntu -- the first distro I've used where IPv6 was enabled by default. I disabled it and everything works better.

      Disabling it just in Firefox was good enough for the browser, until I got a local DNS running on the same system, at which point it reverted to the slow lookups, until I disabled IPv6 system-wide.

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  3. Re:Anybody else experience by Homology · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've noticed that JavaScript enabled will cause Firefox to continously use 100% CPU and be unresponsive. One fix is to disable JavaScript and only enable it when needed. The culprit is ads served via JavaScript from kontera.com, so I just blackholed kontera.com.

  4. Profile paths are strange because... by argent · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... they're there to prevent a path-guessing attack like the ones used to fake out the security zones in Internet Explorer.

  5. Or use a custom css sheet for safari by bach37 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mozilla adblock css works with Safari. Go to safari's advanced tab, and choose the .css file. No ads.

  6. Re:Do the release notes contradict themselves? by JadeNB · · Score: 2, Informative
    Surely that's a contradiction. If you install into a new directory then you aren't going to get your old extentions.
    Your extensions and themes are in your profile directory, not your install directory.