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Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released
micpp writes "Only a short time after the release of version 1.0.5, Mozilla has released version 1.0.6 of both Firefox and Thunderbird . This update fixes a bug in the browser and email program which prevented some extensions from working."
Actually, it jumed from version 1.0.2 to 1.0.5 to syncronise there, but 1.0.5 for a very short-lived version, because as mentioned it broke quite a lot of plug-ins. All 1.0.6 contains over 1.0.5 is a fix to the plugin breakage.
Combination - fun iPhone puzzling
It may be a bug, or perhaps you should do a clean install, because this doesn't happen to me, at least. I even downloaded the deer park thingy and, except for 2 of the extensions that i had, everything else worked.
I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...
I just got about 350KB/s download of the browser from moz..
They release the new versions for download before they release it for auto-upgrade. It is usually several days behind the download version (this will be changed when Deer Park is released). Before they had a chance to get 1.0.5 setup for the upgrade, the bug was reported and they held off (why have people update to 1.0.5 when 1.0.6 is days away?). If 1.0.6 was released today, my next Monday it should be released to the auto-update system.
Ummm, that's what Fierfox does for me.
It says "Extenions A and B may not be compatible with Firefox version XYZ and will be disabled".
Also, about:config -> app.extension.version
Set that to a low number (1.0 for example) and it won't even ask to disable them.
^_^
The biggest annoyance to me when upgrading to 1.0.5 was that I had to uninstall my extensions due to incompatibilities. I reinstalled the same version of the extensions, and they worked fine. Now I suppose I get to do this again! *sigh*
I understand these are all bug fixes, but it is getting old having to manually install each time as well. The update tool usually hangs on everything but extensions.
You might try some of these. http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/ http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/ http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/
I have something to say. It's better to burn out than to FADE AWAY!
They stagger the release times to ease bandwidth. The setup file comes first, then it hits the update servers.
In a couple of days people can autoupdate or use the little blue xmas tree.
Do not meddle in the affairs of geeks for they are subtle and quick to anger
Version 1.1 for both apps will be out in the summer which offers updates in the style of windows updates, which is a good thing. You don't have to reinstall the whole application, it just updates what is needed. Hur-ray!
Mirror of Mac, Windows and nix version (English) here.
Security fixes made in FireFox 1.0.5, released July 12, 2005
(Mozilla's rating) Mozilla's description of vulneraility, Date reported to Mozilla
(High) Content-generated event vulnerabilities: April 11, 2005
(Low) XBL scripts ran even when javascript disabled: May 2, 2005
(High) Code execution via "Set as Wallpaper": May 3, 2005
(Low) Same-origin violation with InstallTrigger callback: May 8, 2005
(High) Script injection from Firefox sidebar panel using data: May 13, 2005
(Critical) Code execution through shared function objects: May 19, 2005
(Moderate) Possibly exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo: May 28, 2005
(Moderate) The return of frame-injection spoofing: June 6, 2005
(Moderate) Same origin violation: frame calling top.focus(): June 6, 2005
(Critical) Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through the browser: June 20, 2005
(Low) javascript prompt origin spoofing: June 26, 2005
(High) XHTML node spoofing: June 27, 2005
...it's worth clarifying that this release fixes one, and only one bug.
There's no (known) security vulnerability here, so if you're extension free, or see no effects, you can shrug this one off.
boakes.org
Check out Pan (available on almost all platforms) here. Pan has been dormant for almost a year - it's in the process of being resurrected, but It's a damn good newsreader that supports yEnc. Plus it supports plonking ;)
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
It's in the works for Thunderbird.
I honestly wish you could do a "block sender" in newsgroups. Really, it would make usenet a little bit more bearable. But all the blocking features seem to be reserved for email.
That's what a killfile is for. Most newsreaders already support killfiles, and most newsreaders grow to the point where they support killfiles.
What is wrong with ff is that it is setup in such a way that extensions can have it hang. People should be 'screaming at the devs' about this.
Every plugin system has this problem. You either give the plugins access to the inner workings, or you don't. If it crashes and burns, tough. The extension dev should've tested more, or the extension was written for an older FF and can't cope with the new one. Really, the current system is pretty good given the circumstances.
It happened to me several times. I did a bulk update, either extensions or FF, only to find out on restart that it froze in various weird postures with the interface botched up or with chrome errors. I then had to track down the offending extension and decide what I want to do about it (downgrade, uninstall, live with it, etc.).
i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer
Okay, I'll feed the troll.
I use Debian with IceWM and after installing a package through apt or aptitude, if it's a GUI and sometimes character based, it will show immediately in the system menu. That's the Programs selection in the IceWM menu. No restarting IceWM required. Debian does the same thing for KDE. This has been the case for at least the past few years so I would say that, at least in Debian's case, it's pogressed well beyond MS Windows circa '93.
So, maybe you're just using an immature distribution or your facts aren't quite what you thought they were.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different result."
Of course, the latest beta of Opera 8.0.2 has bittorrent built in -- primarily to releave its own server load when providing upgrades -- but it works great on any torrent file.
Evolution is a fact. Darwinism is a joke.
Maybe using KDE instead of gnome will help. GTK is notoriously slow on remote desktops because of its frequent refresh updates.
I'm also using cygwin and have a full office setup with ltsp & kde (the server is really modest hardware - athlon 2000) and they don't have refresh problems.
I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...
Not anymore, and it's not funny. On my brother's computer FF crashes every single time a new window is opened from the root window.
You can't handle the truth.
They need to make widely-available release candidates, even if just for a day or two before the official release. Then many more users (and the developers of the extensions) would test them out
We do make release candidates available several days before the release. Keep an eye on the Mozilla Quality blog for notices. You can also find notices on MozillaZine fairly consistently.
- A
From the release notes:
"When upgrading, all your Extensions and Themes will be disabled. This is not an issue, but it may appear to be one..."
This may be a pretty serious issue. After I updated firefox, it wouldn't start. It turned out I was using the bookmarkshome extension, and I had my homepage set to the bookmarkshome page. Since the extension was disabled, the homepage couldn't be generated, which apparently prevented firefox from starting.
The only fix I could find was to manually edit my prefs.js file and change homepage to something else. This is not a hard fix, but I think lot of people will not be able to figure this out. They will just say "hmm, I updated firefox and it doesn't even start, what a piece of #$%^".
AccountKiller
Thunderbird jumped from 1.0.2 to 1.0.6 because it received the same patches as 1.0.6 Firefox. The 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 releases did not happen because they were patches for JavaScript exploits. Thunderbird ships with JavaScript turned off. Mozilla decided to wait until a security release of Thunderbird was needed that would have affected the majority of users rather then make users go through a likely pointless upgrade.
These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based upon the order I joined. -Homer Simpson
There was torrents avaible at the 1.0 release. On that day of the 1,000,000 plus downloads only several thousand were via torrents. BTW bittorrent.mozilla.org is still up though serving up old releases 1.0.1.
These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based upon the order I joined. -Homer Simpson
They use javascript/ccs/dhtml and they suck.
We need to pester the FF people about it.
http://dhtml-menu.com/menu-demos/demo347.html
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
This is the one thing that upset me about Ubuntu. You've got to support FireFox properly.
I used the reference at http://www.tuxme.com/node/315 (scroll down to the Upgrading FireFox section) as instructions for upgrading.
I also had to tweak a couple things in terms of desktop icons and automagic launching.
Fortunately, once you've done it once, upgrading from 1.0.4, to 1.0.5 (and now to 1.0.6) leaves your new settings intact.
Couldn't comment on ThunderBird. Gmail put a quick end to that. (anyone still need an invitation?)
--- Dan
AFAIK, Ubuntu and Debian cannot post a package as soon as the latest firefox is released. The amount of meatball surgery needed to get firefox working and behaving in a system controlled by a package management system is substantial (Firefox is an overly windows-centric package). Kudos to the maintainers for doing such a great job. I have tried to build it and it is not easy.