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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."
is there anyway to use Thunderbird's spam filter to hide spam in a newsgroup yet?
Three cheers for efficient open-source response to bugs.
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AHHHHHHHHHH!!! This wasn't part of any cycle I was told about! My god! My day is ruined! Thank god Microsoft will be consistent. My life can get back to normal in a couple weeks.
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the software update feature never worked for me. I had to download and install.
...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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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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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.
I see they still have tabbed web browsing, which has been in Internet Explorer since version 7.0.
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Can Mozilla's servers be /.ed?
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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.
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Can we get a list of mirrors, please? mozilla.org is blocked at the proxy here at work. *grumble*
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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.
I wish I could better manage less-standard header fields in the message list in Thunderbird. I recently posted this question to Mozillazine:
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=294
Can anyone tell me if this kind of Spamassassin integration is possible?
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.
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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.
Sounds like you should try Opera. :-)
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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?
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If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
...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.
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I'm downloading Firefox with Firefox...
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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They should just print out the binary diffs to the previous version and mail them to you so you can make the changes in a hex editor. Do you really trust their installer application to make the changes to your computer?
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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.
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I bet every computer you've ever owned has been turned into a spam zombie because you didn't think updating your OS was worth it.
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That'll be 1.1.2 then...
I guess today is a passable day to die.
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?
How many of us want to prove how l33t we are by bragging about using Alpha releases? Hands?
Those of us who code our own browsers find that pitiful.
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.
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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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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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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 #$%^".
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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.
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When I screw up, though, I have to use the fallback version (latest stable).
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Still, it's fun to test it in this way. Eating my own dogfood and all that makes it more obvious when I decide to shoot myself in the foot, or head.
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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
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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?)
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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.