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Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-all-worlds dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Several vulnerabilities are fixed in version Firefox 1.5.0.2, which was released on Thursday. In addition to security patches Firefox now includes some stability enhancements and, as expected, includes native support for Apple Computer's Macs with Intel processors. Secunia has a detailed advisory about vulnerabilities fixed with this release."

6 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. Themes and extensions keep working by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    This time around, almost all extension and theme authors got the version dependency right, so unlike after the previous update, your extensions and themes won't be disabled. It's a security update, so do install it.

  2. What's new in Firefox 1.5.0.2 by anandpur · · Score: 4, Informative

    From Burning Edge:
    http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5 .0.2.html

  3. Some leaks fixed by EggyToast · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's the big ones, IMO, from a mac user's perspective:
    • Memory leaks
    • 321283 - Using Find causes documents to leak.
    • 323532 - Leak when using history autocomplete.
    • 323377 - Lots of leaks in nsInternetSearchService.
    Numerous times would I come home to see Firefox using over a gig of memory and eating up about 40% of my proc cycles. A quick quit/restart of the app would fix it, but still -- I regularly close tabs and don't develop long histories on multiple open tabs, so it didn't make any sense.

    I just hope that those leaks are the ones I was actually experiencing...

  4. Yeah by springbox · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original poster might want to read this: Firefox "Memory Leak" is a Feature

  5. Mac Support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just to clarify, Firefox has long had Mac support. This distribution adds Universal Binary support so that Firefox is now native for Intel Macs.

  6. FF configuration to reclaim leaked memory by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the URL I got it from:
    reclaim leaked memory

    In case this poor bastard's site gets Slashdotted, here's the trick:

          1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
          2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
          3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
          4. Now select True and then press Enter.
          5. Restart Firefox.

    Once you've restarted, and been using FF awhile, minimize it, then bring it back, and the system (under Windows, anyway) will have reclaimed leaked memory (often LOTS of it). A new notice on that page says this works with Thunderbird, too, so I'll have to try that when I get to work.