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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 bother with a Mac version? by rincebrain · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I beg to differ. Deer Park is far faster and more stable than previous versions.

    Go try that instead of the 1.0 series if you have complaints about speed.

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  2. Anybody else experience by sanmarcos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anybody experience the huge memory usage when opening a few big images?.

    Firefox should focus on improving the bookmark manager, the preferences, and polishing up the UI, but not forget about the most important things, speed and stability that is.

    It started as a lightweight mozilla, but it consumes just as a big chunk of memory as Mozilla does.

    Today, Firefox is the only serious competition to IE, (I see a lot of people using FF, even non geeks). Also, remember that another of Firefox key features is security. Lets hope that IE7s new features (that are similar to the ones FF always had, tabs, search box, etc), dont take away market share from FF.

    1. Re:Anybody else experience by Slowping · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hmmm which firefox versions are you using?

      I have three computers (all Linux) which has firefox as their browser. Two desktops and one laptop. All three of them run cpufreqd.

      My two desktops stay up for months on end. Thanks to tabbed browsing, I leave just one browser window open and use it for everything. I've had firefox stay up for as long as the machine, without problem.

      For all three computers, I comfortably browse a various collection of websites, including many which have flash or java. None of the machines are taxed enough to force cpufreq into the gigahertz range.

      You sound like you know what you're doing, so I won't question the poor behaviour you're seeing. Maybe you're browsing multi-lingual websites? Multibyte fonts killing the browser? Maybe a bad plugin or extension? I'm not sure what the problem might be or what to suggest if you've already talked to the developers.

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  3. 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