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Firefox 1.0.7 Released
hackajar writes "Firefox 1.0.7 has been released today. From the announcement "Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw. There are also other security and stability changes, including a fix for a crash experienced when using certain Proxy Auto-Config scripts. In addition, some regressions introduced by previous 1.0.x security updates have been resolved.""
I've been running it for 3 minutes, and I must say... it's VERY stable. Probably more so than ever!
(please understand this is a joke)
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HA! I don't have your insecure Linux problems. I run Windows!
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
As usual means you wait up to two weeks before an arrow shows up or if you decide to manually check for updates under Tools>Options>Advanced>Software Updates.
I like Firefox but being forced to wait days -- or longer -- for a security update is utterly pathetic. If I wanted a browser with known exploits that I can't patch I'd use IE.
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
Which virus does this Mozilla release include?
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Because you Brits insist on speaking English. When 1.0.7 is converted to English from American, you'll get your new localized version!
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
I am working to spread the firefox browser.
We all know that sex sells.
So try to look at this site http://www.thelovesearch.com/
using Microsoft Internet Explore.
It will try to convince your to use Firefox using sex appeal.
If we could convince all porn sites to only support Firefox the battle
would be won in a few weeks.
Or am I dreaming now ??
Try looking for the 'English' version instead. Along that line ... they don't have a separate 'American' version.
Back in the day... John Clease was one of Jay Leno's guests during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. He described 3 differences between Americans and the British.
1) We (the British) speak English.
2) When we hold a world championship sporting event we invite teams from other countries.
3) When we meet our head of state we only go down on ONE knee.
My office has been taken over by iPod people.
Great - but that requires the use of 2 hands, whereas Firefox users on every other platform only needs one.
(no masturbation jokes please)
A sentence you'll never see on an Internet discussion board: "You know what? You're right."
For Firefox 1.0.8 to be released
Because you Brits insist on speaking English. When 1.0.7 is converted to English from American, you'll get your new localized version!
That would be localised then.
doesn't give Firefox the right to fix bugs while the Microsofties are distracted and obvlivious ...
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At a guess, the English version doesn't have all those nasty spelling mistakes like "Fonts & Colors (sic)" which the careless American maintainers still haven't got round to fixing.
It's possible that it also replaces outlandish words like "cookies" with more familiar terms like "biscuits".
If you think it was stable before, you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet! Now it's also barn and silo!!!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
[snip]
I hope some of the Mozilla people (Asa etc.) read this and think about it. Do you hear me?
What part of "we don't care" don't you understand?
We have SeaMonkey now!
Then, as me, I set up a directory called Firefox107. I made a directory under that one called Firefox as the installation area for the install of Firefox 1.0.7. I then downloaded the Linux installer for 1.0.7 directly from mozilla.org. I untarred/gunzipped the installer into the Firefox107 directory. It made a firefox-installer directory under Firefox107 where I then clicked the firefox-installer script to start the install process. Again, I installed as me, not as root.
I don't know about you, but I clicked 'download now', then double-clicked 'Firefox Setup 1.0.7.exe', then I had a lie down, the effort required was just that bit too much for me. Bring on the auto-update, that's what I say!
You don't really need the "S".
Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I'm going reuse the tired meme of, "there are no women on Slashdot".
However, you'd be wrong...
It's actually because all the female moderators have a wonderful sense of humor.
They're also all worldly, erudite, perspicacious, compassionate, shockingly beautiful, and, "really have it together".
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Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
I'd be happy to use 'z' more widely if, in return, Americans would agree to spell 'colour' correctly.
We can't; we don't have the extra vowels. Unlike the British Empire, we didn't participate in imperialist vowel-looting of Balkan places like Krk and Vrbnik in the 19th Century.