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Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the download-compile-repeat dept.

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."

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  1. and of course by devilsandy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the software update feature never worked for me. I had to download and install.

  2. What really irks me... by oberondarksoul · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...is having all my extensions and themes disabled whenever I install a new version of Firefox. Granted, you can re-enable them through about:config, but wouldn't it be nicer to have a dialogue box on first launch (along the lines of "You have some old extensions installed which may not be 100% compatible - do you want to disable them?")?

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    1. Re:What really irks me... by Suppafly · · Score: 3, Interesting

      ya, thousands of people screaming at the devs wondering what the hell is wrong with FF

      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.

  3. Fixing extensions by Iriel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now if only they could fix a bug that would get authors to update their extensions to the new browser version. I miss my FireGoat browswer

    (yes, I know there's a way to fix firesomething, but I haven't had time and it's just annoying to install an extension to get an error saying that it's for an older version)

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  4. I'm still at 1.04? by NetPoser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm still at 1.04 and for the past few weeks I've checked for new updated (Tools > Options > Advanced) and my Firefox still says there are no updates for the browser. Extensions have been updating.

  5. Message list and custom headers... by shic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wish I could better manage less-standard header fields in the message list in Thunderbird. I recently posted this question to Mozillazine:

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2947 61

    Can anyone tell me if this kind of Spamassassin integration is possible?

  6. Re:Automatic updater by ckaminski · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Patience... soon enough Windows Update will become an API you can leverage as an app developer to tell Windows where to find patches and updates to your software. Just wait.

  7. Thunderbird version increase from 1.0.2 to 1.0.6 by daveewart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I was trying to figure out was why someone felt it necessary to synchronize the versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. After all, if you do that, in the future you'll either get them out of step again, or kept artificially in-step. By artificially, I mean that when critical changes are needed for one package, a corresponding copy of the other will be released whether it needs changes or not; or critical changes for one package will be stalled for release until similar changes are required to the other package.

    And to whoever it was who modded my parent post 'Redundant', erm, what? Perfectly sensible question. Version numbers are supposed to indicative of (a) the progress of the project and (b) the degree of change from one version to the next. Messing with the version numbers for no good reason only causes confusion.

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  8. Enterprise FF/TB Managment by theyenk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does FF/TB have some type of a management console, that allows you to push updates out to client computers. I work at a university with 3k+ computers, I pity the foo who has to update boxes for a week straight, only to have 1.0.7 come out the next day. Or does anyone know of an open source client management system, that would hold updates for clients and auto-update if out of date clients pass by the manager?

  9. Good, maybe popups are finally fixed.. by DroopyStonx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've noticed quite a bit of unauthorized pop-ups making it through Firefox lately.

    Easiest example I could think of off the top of my head to show this is to search google for song lyrics and visit one of those sites.

    WTF? They're always from fastclick and casalemedia and other shit that's already on the block list.

    Also notice that even blocked domains for setting cookies (also from fastclick and casalemedia) are STILL able to set cookies.

    Hopefully it's been fixed...

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  10. Re:This Is Nearly As Irritating As Microsoft Now by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Yeah, well, avoiding memory leaks is Programming 101 (or at least 102).

    I used to use Opera. I switched to Firefox and Thunderbird to finally have a completely free, un-ad-supported browser and email client. And actually I find Firefox crashes less than Opera did, especially with the Register site which used to crash Opera regularly.

    But I save images regularly from the Net, and after a few hundred image saves, Firefox becomes almost unusable and must be restarted, which indicates a serious memory leak to me.

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