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."

Comments

So...

[Pxtl]

is there anyway to use Thunderbird's spam filter to hide spam in a newsgroup yet?

That was certainly quick

[BlackCobra43]

Three cheers for efficient open-source response to bugs.

Re:That was certainly quick

[daern]

> Three cheers for efficient open-source response to bugs.

Three cheers for rushing patches out quickly with proper regression testing to avoid having to re-release with bug fixes.

Perhaps people might have some understanding of why Microsoft don't release patches 2 days after someone tells them about a vulnerability. Frankly, if I was a corporate Firefox user that had started testing Firefox for deployment, I'd be a little pissed about having to start all over again with the new version.

Mirrors?

[carambola5]

Can we get a list of mirrors, please? mozilla.org is blocked at the proxy here at work. *grumble*

Automatic updater

[Xerotope]

All of these software updates are driving me nuts. Under Debian it's fine, just "apt-get upgrade" and things happen fairly seamlessly. But on my windows box, updating requires downloading a new installer for each program, in some cases uninstalling the new version, and then running each new installer. These window installers all require multiple steps, and so it's just a big hassle to stay current.

Why can't more programs these days have automatic updates? Firefox does in theory. It'll check for new updates, then download the new version and start the installer for you and then break your install. Not the updating experience I'm looking for.

Why can't software updates operate more like Eclipse's update tool? Or Sun's Java update? Or Adobe reader's? Or dare I say it, Microsofts Windows update?

And yes, I'm lazy. This is supposed to be one of the menial tasks where computers replace people.

Re:Automatic updater

[digidave]

Wow, so it'll finally be where Linux package management was in 1999? (Or earlier)

uuencode/decode. C'mon, support it.

[British]

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.

I tried messing around with the rules & such for newsgroups(filters?) but they never came close to working.

What Thunderbird really needs is to support uuencode/decode. Why does only Freeagent and some freeware newsreader support this, yet is wideley used on usenet? What's the difficulty here?

If Thunderbird supported that, it could steal some users away from the ungodly complicated FreeAgent.

So how did the breaking of extensiosn get past QA?

[doormat]

I'm curious as to how it got past the QA team that 1.0.5 broke a bunch of extensions. Downloading say, the 10 most popular extensions and testing them is too dificult and time consuming?