Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 Released

Mini-Geek writes "Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 has been released. As with previous 1.5.0.x patches, 1.5.0.3 can be downloaded as a small, incremental download. From the article: 'This update fixes a publicly disclosed denial of service weakness. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The bugfixes previously planned for Firefox 1.5.0.3 were shifted to 1.5.0.4, and a quick update was released shortly after the recent to address the publicly reported issue.'"

Comments

Re:Weird Firefox behaviour when typing

[cs96and]

Go to Options->Advanced->General and deselect "Begin finding when you begin typing"

Re:Yet again I was interrupted while I work

[bunratty]

I was happily reading a webpage when this popped up. I want it to only check for updates during a new tab or window, NOT when I'm just sitting there browsing or typing or watching something.

Bug 323041 - Software update dialog steals focus

Re:Incremental patch?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

Re:Ooooo...

[AKAImBatman]

The book of Mozilla has changed for each product released. There's a Wikipedia page that gives the history here. An official page containing all the passages to date can be found here. And in case you're too lazy to click, here they are by browser:

Netscape:

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10

Mozilla:

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)

Firefox:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Re:Just a minor revision

[Kilz]

So, that removes security as a reason for using Firefox. Speed never was a reason, and it certainly isn't efficient memory usage. That leaves what, exactly, as a reason for using Firefox over Opera, or even IE7? That it's open source? That's a pretty lousy reason

IE7? You have to be joking right? Its still in beta and relies a lot on IE6 code. You know the code that recently had 2 giant security flaws exposed, and they along with others have not been patched. Better to stay with Firefox, at least when holes are found they are patched faster than any other browser that I know of.

Re:Incremental patch?

[mlefevre]

Because the downloaded file contains the differences between the binaries, and the updater leaves the rest of the binary file as it was.

See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR and http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ for more.

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.3 Released

[CritterNYC]

For the portable folks, I updated Portable Firefox 1.5.0.3 to the new release as well:
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/por table_firefox

Also added in a few new features in the recent releases:

• Split Apps/Data directories for easy backups
• Local homepages (for users of TiddlyWiki, etc)
• Self-extracting packages (easy install, only 4.8MB download)
• Few bug fixes

Re:Weird Firefox behaviour when typing

[harryk]

thats an incorrect solution, as both functions should work. I've had this same problem when using Sprint PCS's website, pretty routinely. I think this is a page loading issue, as it doesn't recognize that the text is in form, as opposed to search strings.

But yes, I've had the problems too.

harryk