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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."
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.
Just a boy doing unproffesional IT work that's way above his head.
the software update feature never worked for me. I had to download and install.
I see they still have tabbed web browsing, which has been in Internet Explorer since version 7.0.
I'm a big tall mofo.
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.
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.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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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!
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