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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. 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