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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.'"
I can't wait to see what passage we will have from the Book of Mozilla.
The readings are always so inspiring and applicable to our modern lives.
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Even the Sun goes down.
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.
I've not found any technical details about the "incremental update" mechanism.
One would wonder how can this be accomplished with binary distributions (like DEB and RPM.) DLLs?
For the sources it means that the original complete source code is already available!
Maybe it is just a download manager a-la Acrobat Reader (for Windows).
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Shouldn't we just take this for granted by now? You never really see a vendor come out with a new version of something that some users are discouraged from upgrading to.
"Here everyone, have some bug fixes and optimizations... but not that one guy, or you people over there, or that lady with the sideburns.."
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A question, which is off topic, but not entirely:
Does anyone else have the problem that occurs sometimes when everything you type into the browser, every single character goes into the form, but it also pops up the "search" functionality and puts the character in there. It also loses focus, so you have to reclick back into the form field, and type the next character.
I have no idea what causes it, but I have to close my browser, and restart it.
If you don't know what I'm talking about you don't have it.
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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.
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Aww, and the teeming masses were just hanging on your every word, hoping to jump ship to whatever secret and superior browsing software the great Joebert uses...
Neither of those statements are true, assuming that by "people" you mean a significant proportion of the people aware of Firefox and what it offers. Unless something drastic has happened while my back was turned I am pretty sure that almost no-one who uses firefox would consider it less secure than Internet Explorer.
As for being "riddled" with bugs, even if it were determined that Firefox had as many or more identified bugs of a comparable or worse severity than Internet Explorer, that still wouldn't change that fact that safe browsing is a lot more reliant on sensible behaviour than browser stability. The lack of ActiveX in Firefox is the real saviour as far as drive-by spyware installations are concerned. And for the slightly savvier user, Javascript whitelisting via the NoScript extension eliminates cross-site scripting exploits, without crippling necessary or useful functionality on trusted sites.
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C'mon, this is Slashdot... Isn't it obvious?! Your parent is modded as troll because some of the moderators can't seem to differentiate between the ORIGINAL posting which was a troll, and your response which wasn't.
Just another day in da /. hood
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/po
Also added in a few new features in the recent releases:
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
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.