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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."

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  1. Patch by Ryz0r · · Score: 5, Funny
    Download the patch here!

    haha, no, seriously.. i'm joking

    ..*ducks*

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  2. 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...

  3. Annoying update message by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It did it again.
    I have firefox set to inform me that theres an update.

    In my eyes that update check should only occur when I open a window, NOT when I'm in the middle of typing.
    I saw a flash of something whilst I was typing and realised I had inadvertantly accepted a popup box.

    I want to set Firefox to inform me of updates, but make sure it only does that when opening a new window or tab (so it knows I'm not actively typing).

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  4. Hold on there by dereference · · Score: 5, Insightful
    With only 1% of users on Firefox, they can hardly be considered critical. Any vulnerability in Internet Explorer is automatically 99 times as bad, due to its user base.

    Be careful with this line of reasoning. All along there's been this mantra of "Firefox is inherently more secure, and would be even if it were the dominant browser" spouted continuously. Well, I happen think the GP makes a great point about this, and your reasoning seems to fly in the face of the mantra. Don't get me wrong--I'm one of these said spouters--but I'm honestly feeling more than a bit hypocritical at this moment. These are some damn serious issues, and it's not just a handful.

    Now, I suspect the reason for this is that the Firefox community as a whole (users and developers) are far more pre-disposed to actually finding and publicly disclosing such bugs. My guess is that we really only see the tip of the IE iceberg in terms of security.

    However, we still can't have it both ways; these are indeed very critical bugs, and to dismiss them otherwise may seem beneficial, but it's actually a great disservice.