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

[Anonymous Coward]

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

RELEASE CYCLE!!!

[JossiRossi]

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.

and of course

[devilsandy]

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

Re:and of course

[PReDiToR]

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.

What really irks me...

[oberondarksoul]

...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?")?

Stealing Microsoft's innovations...

[bigtallmofo]

I see they still have tabbed web browsing, which has been in Internet Explorer since version 7.0.

The ultimate test

[ICECommander]

Can Mozilla's servers be /.ed?

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:I'm still at 1.04?

[blankmeyer]

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.

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.

Re:uuencode/decode. C'mon, support it.

[Nimey]

What Thunderbird really needs is to support uuencode/decode.

You need the Mnenhy extension.

Re:Thunderbird version increases from 1.0.2 to 1.0

[the web]

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Re:Check for updates...

[ballstothat]

How many of us want to prove how l33t we are by bragging about using Alpha releases? Hands?

I can see yours is already raised.

1.1 will solve these constant updates

[JonVisc]

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!

Re:1.1 will solve these constant updates

[JonVisc]

Kind of answers that here: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update The main quote being... "The update itself will contain a manifest of files which need updating/removal." At which point it will delete or overwrite them, but you can read about it, it covers it better than I can :-)

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?

And relax....

[ear1grey]

...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.