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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.'"
Seriously, who finds this interesting? This is a minor point release to fix a small security hole, not front page news.
Gotta love the small update size. More software should work this way and instead of giving us everything each time, just give the changes. Well... more windows software needs to do it, other platforms seem to manage it ok.
The javascript console bug has an annoying ass problem of spewing out tons of debug information for CSS errors, which no one cares about because you have to do so many hacks to get styles to look right in all browsers. Console2 was to fix this, but it hasn't been worked on in forever and isn't compatable with 1.5.X. 100 CSS errors every time you load a page gets annoying when you are searching for a few JS errors
You're far too trusting. Letting random strangers automagically execute code on your machine?
But isn't the ability of the end-user to customise the software to their exact preference/need one of the biggest advantages of Open Source?
Yes! However, it's the attitude of "figure it out moron" from some people that is the problem with open source projects.
It's definately a role model that other software venders could learn from. For friends and family that I used to have to babysit their browser updates now all I have to do is let Firefox do it's thing. Seems to work well in Thunderbird too. It really does make it a lot easier for non-technical people to keep up-to-date and truth be told it makes it easier for a geek boy like me too.
The only other Windows program I have that seems to work as well is Azureus which is also opensource.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
It might have more to do with the natrual assumption Windows admins make about versions. With the Windows systems he knows that its upgraded to the latest version through either Automatic updates or through an intranet update. With multiple browsers with a different upgrade system he can not know for certain if your firefox is fully upgraded or is like most windows users computers and 50 versions out of date(there is a hell of a lot of issues caused by people who could have just upgraded their computer). Plus too with just one browser if something happens or shows up out in the wild he can react accordingly. with firefox plue IE he has to track twice the issues and figure out how they affect things.
Its more about managability, imagine the administrative headache you would have if you had users using netscape(and yes I have seen this, only way I managed to get that user off of it was by sabotaging her computer so I had to "replace" it, couldn't get her offa it otherwise), firefox, IE, Opera and having them all running under redhat, debian, windows 98, windows 2000, windows xp, mac 9, mac X, etc...
It would quickly become a disaster. Personally if I had a consistent system throught I would slap you down hard for using something outside of the guidelines. Although I've been trying to convince the people here to dump IE and Office so I could go to Opera/Firefox and OpenOffice so I would be slapping everybody else for using IE. Trying but failing...
You can be sure SeaMonkey won't be dropped, the community takes care. For some users (mostly power users) SeaMonkey is much more useful, just look at the cookie manager or the preferences. Besides the SM/Mail has advantages over Thunderbird, I first had to write an extension (Folder selection) to make TB sort of usable for me. Sure enough it's good to be able to choose.
O. Wyss
See http://wyoguide.sf.net/papers/Cross-platform.html
This is sorta off topic, but relavant because of the new update.
.exe file for 1.5.0.3 if I can figure out a way to have that auto-installed on the 35 machines here.
Where I work, I've been pushing hard to get the company to use Firefox instead of IE. I've got most people using it every day. However these are normal office workers, they don't click on the update icon (They don't even wonder about it), and I find that they're running an older version. Does anyone know of a way to add the update to a login script, so it is silently installed when they login? I've googled around, and maybe I'm not using the right search phrases, but I'm not finding anything useful. I'm even willing to download a whole new
... And so it comes to this.
If we're calling anything that locks your browser a DOS now, then how come this bug, which is over 3 years old and seems dead simple to fix, is not? I can make a browser DOS on any web page I want:
<script>
while(true) alert('Boom!');
</script>
Such a piece of code does not trigger the "script is taking a long time" message because it fires alerts. And the alerts are content-modal so you can't do *anything* to close the browser or tab causing the alerts. You have to kill it off.
No different from the "denial of service" bug mentioned in this posting.