Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released

KrayzieKyd writes "God Bless Mozilla. Firefox has just notified me that Firefox version 1.5.0.4 has just been released with release notes and according to Mozilla's website, the same has been released for Thunderbird with its own release notes."

Comments

Freshmeat?

[mtenhagen]

Are we getting slashdot articles for each verion bump of the mozilla products? I tought freshmeat was created for that.

Is there something special about this release? According to the release notes these bugs where removed. Great but not enough for a slashdot article.

MFSA 2006-43 Privilege escalation using addSelectionListener
MFSA 2006-42 Web site XSS using BOM on UTF-8 pages
MFSA 2006-41 File stealing by changing input type (variant)
MFSA 2006-39 "View Image" local resource linking (Windows)
MFSA 2006-38 Buffer overflow in crypto.signText()
MFSA 2006-37 Remote compromise via content-defined setter on object prototypes
MFSA 2006-36 PLUGINSPAGE privileged JavaScript execution 2
MFSA 2006-35 Privilege escalation through XUL persist
MFSA 2006-34 XSS viewing javascript: frames or images from context menu
MFSA 2006-33 HTTP response smuggling
MFSA 2006-32 Fixes for crashes with potential memory corruption
MFSA 2006-31 EvalInSandbox escape (Proxy Autoconfig, Greasemonkey)

Re:Freshmeat?

[cperciva]

Are we getting slashdot articles for each verion bump of the mozilla products?

Well, we seem to get slashdot articles about every MSIE security flaw; by that standard a new release of FireFox which fixes 12 security flaws (5 of them rated "critical") is certainly slashdotworthy.

Re:Freshmeat?

[KiloByte]

The thing is, you don't ever hear about MSIE security issues unless there is already a popular exploit in the wild.

Re:Freshmeat?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well the FAQ of the release notes does say:

What can I do to help?

We need all the exposure we can get ... Submit a story to Slashdot and other news sites about the release.

Someone was bound to follow the instructions.

Re:Freshmeat?

[Xamataca]

memory leak?... that's why I can't surf more than five of those neat sites with tinny porn video thumbs... ermm, shit.

Re:Freshmeat?

[lpcustom]

You know this flamebait made me think, which almost caused me to have a stroke, so try not to let it happen again. I wanted to compare the two browsers to see just how much of a memory leak I get from FF.
I started with FF with my normal three tabs each with a different site open. I pulled up taskmanager and looked at all running processes. There was firefox at 31 meg.
So then I open IE6. Since I rarely use it I haven't changed the default home page from MSN. I check taskmanager, again. iexplore starts up using 45 meg. So I think maybe it's because of the website. I point IE6 at google. Sure enough the RAM usage goes down to 42 meg. To be fair however I thought I should open the three sites I have open in my FF tabs in IE.
iexplore.exe ---> 42,976k
iexplore.exe ---> 24,444k
iexplore.exe ---> 38,408k
Total iexplore.exe RAM usage 105,828k
Firefox with the same sites open in three tabs ---> 31,776k
If firefox is leaking on my machine it's into a big bucket called iexplore.exe

Seamonkey also updated

[darteaga]

Seamonkey, the new version of the old mozilla suite (Netscape-like) has also been updated. The release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases /seamonkey1.0.2/.

Incremental Updates

[Nighttime]

I thought one of the benefits of Firefox 1.5 was incremental updates i.e. patches that that are in the 100s of KBs range. However, watching the progress meter for this latest update it will have eventually downloaded 6.1MB, which is basically the full version of Firefox.

Re:Incremental Updates

[fondacio]

In that case, you were updating a version lower than 1.5.0.3. If there is no incremental patch, the updater reverts to downloading and executing the full installer. I just updated 1.5.0.3, and the file it downloaded was quite small. Incidentally, Mozilla Thunderbird has also been updated to 1.5.0.4.

Re:Incremental Updates

[masklinn]

My FF 1.5.0.3 downloaded a mere 600k, and Thunderbird's update to 1.5.0.4 was roughtly the same size (~500k).

Your FF probably failed a hash check or something and downloaded everything to reinstall from scratch, that's the fallback when the updater doesn't manager to install incremental updates.

Re:Will it stop crashing?

[root_42]

This is known and actually a feature, which can be turned off:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749 .html

disappointing

[distantbody]

And I *still* can't find text within a textbox...