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.""

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Full release notes...

[tcopeland]

...are here here.

Also, from the Mozillazine article, looks like Portable Firefox has been updated as well.

And I'm posting this with 1.0.7, good times...

Re:And yet.....

[op12]

Download it now if you're impatient, or wait a day or two for it to appear in the browser updates, as usual.

Memory leak issue fixed?

[akulbe]

I've tried to hammer 1.0.7 and see if I could reproduce the same crashes that happened in 1.0.6 and this issue *seems* to be fixed. Also, upgraded to (ewww!) Flash Player 8. Seems to be an improvement as well. (I say this because the previous issue usually happened on sites with Flash)

Re:I'm confused

[savala]

Can someone please explain to me the difference between the firefox nightly downloads, Mozilla 1.8, Aviary 1.0.1 & the trunk versions?

Okay, at the heart of it all is the trunk. This is where active development goes on. And even though there is no longer a stand-alone product being developed as "Mozilla", the trunk is currently working its way up to Mozilla 1.9, numbering back incrementally all the way to 0.6 (at the time of Netscape 6).
From the trunk, every so often (less frequently in the last two years) branches are cut. These branches are the 1.x branches, and from them the stable releases are created. Currently we have the 1.7 branch as the long-lived stable-branch (MoFo is committed to keeping its builds from this branch updated with security fixes for a while yet, while not changing its functionality). Mozilla 1.7.11 and this release, Firefox 1.0.7, are made from this branch. Also expect upcoming Thunderbird 1.0.7 and Mozilla 1.7.12 releases.
The Aviary 1.0 branch is basically the same as the Mozilla 1.7 branch, but is referred to specifically when talking about Firefox and Thunderbird. (It's more a CVS branch tag than something you should know about.)
Then, only recently, the 1.8 branch was created. A number of must-fix bugs still present on this branch have been identified, and these are currently being worked on. Once that's all done, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 (the successor to the Mozilla application suite) will be released from it.
Deer Park 1.5 Beta 1 and SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha were releases from this newly formed 1.8 branch, to show what is being worked toward.

It's likely that version numbers of all products/projects will converge at 2.0 in 1-2 years - although this might come after Mozilla 1.7.11 or thereabouts, depending on the necessary functionality specified for Mozilla/Gecko 2.0 (so based on what the backend needs, not frontend functionality).
Of course, it's just as likely that this won't happen. I'd bet MoFo itself doesn't know yet. They're not all that good at planning ahead. :)

Straight to Mozilla's FTP

[Pao|o]

Linux

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0.7/linux-i686/en-US/

Mac OS X

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0.7/mac/en-US/

Windows

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0.7/win32/en-US/

Re:Great!

[keithoc]

I got this all the time too - apparently this isn't a Firefox problem but instead a memory leak in the Flash plugin.

See here for workaround: http://fusion94.org/archives/2005/07/firefox_memor y.html

Re:No translated version

[nine-times]

What about the Seamonkey Project?

Re:Don't use your distro tools to install it...

[MikeFM]

That's not such a good idea in general. Installs from the distro are tested and signed (pretty sure not to be infected with viruses) whereas Firefox's update system assumes behavior of crappy OS like Windows that doesn't auto-update all programs as needed. Auto-update is a good idea but they should strive to work with existing update infrastructures when those exist. There is to much conflict between apt/yum/rug/whatever and Firefox's own update system and it does cause bugs and odd behavior sometimes. That doesn't make it a good idea to abandon the update infrastructure provided by your distro. :)

On the other hand I think distros need to recognize the need of users to install software at the user-level and make their packages and package mgmt system work better for that. As it is they tend to make it difficult to install packages just for a single user.

Re:Don't use your distro tools to install it...

[Hank the Lion]

Now I have a version of Firefox that runs as me instead of running as root, which I'm sure is a lot more secure than the way I had it last time.
I don't think so.
Normally, you install as root, and run as user.
This means, that, as a user, you cannot damage your installation.
Now, you run as the same user that installed it.
This means that you can damage the installation as well.

Re:A week too late

[LupusUF]

while I am using Opera right now (I downloaded it back when they had the party where they gave away free codes), I doubt I will keep it. While some pages that didn't work for firefox do work for Opera, I have noticed the oposite as well...and the pages that don't work for Opera are more important to me than the ones that don't work for firefox. Opera has also crashed on me several times, and I have never had a problem with firefox crashing.

I honestly don't care about the whole open source thing. I don't have a problem with companies keeping their source private. Hell, they wrote it. However, it seems to me that firefox is simply a better product that either IE or Opera.