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Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1, Firefox 1.5.0.5 Available
nuyorker and hdm wrote to mention the new releases for Thunderbird and Firefox. hdm writes "This release of Firefox fixes 12 security holes, many of which can be used to execute malicious code. The Browser Fun project has provided an online demonstration of one of these flaws. This demonstration is capable of executing code on Windows, Linux, and both architectures of the Mac OS X platform; you're going to want to upgrade today!"
As in pushed out to you without asking you first. That was quite the surprise.
I have really been waiting for this build of Thunderbird. It finally includes message tagging, which is something that I've been wanting natively in Thunderbird for a long time. Tagging now also apparently works with IMAP connections, although at least some users are having some problems with that feature. (Bug #344290).
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
Extensions: adblock, ietab, tabx, tabbrowser preferences, adblock filterset, flashblock, disable targets for dls, blockfall, and cards.
/. one, 50MB. Restarted firefox, 21MB. Went straight from plain text work page to /., this article, and replied to your post, 25MB.
Closed out of all tabs and was still at 60MB. Opened a new tab and closed the
Time to go searching for those FF tweaking options again...
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
URL: about:config, filter for: memory, adjust relevant options. -1 for capacity indicates automatic.
Heh, since Patrick V. got it out on Slackware yesterday, I guess you must be talking about it.... finally Slackware considered bleeding edge....
The online update only works if you use the offical binaries. Also, your user account has to have write access to the installation directory (or do it as root, but you should never run a browser as root).
"It ain't a war against drugs.it's a war against personal freedom" --Bill Hicks
Portable Firefox is now Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (or, Firefox Portable among friends) and a new version has been released. This new version sports some handy new features, including: CD support (aka Firefox Portable Live), partial update support, in-place upgrade support, full compatibility with Wine running on your favorite *nix distro, and more. It's available in three different versions: 1.5.0.5 for everyday use, 2.0 Beta 1 for testing the latest Firefox beta and 1.0.8 for web developers to test pages against. Full details are on the Firefox Portable Release Page.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
I personally like to install firefox / mozilla / whatever in /usr/local/application or /opt/application and include version numbers
/opt/mozilla-1.3
/opt/mozilla-1.4
/opt/mozilla-1.5.2
/usr/bin and soft link the application there
/usr/bin /opt/mozilla-1.5.2/bin/mozilla ./mozilla
/opt/mozilla-1.4/bin/mozilla ./mozilla.old
So you get the old version installed and kept as well.
Then I get into
cd
ln -s
Sometimes I keep the old version as a softlink as well
ln -s
There's an installer for linux? :-)
Seriously, I just use the tarball. I unpack it, then "mv firefox firefox-1.5.0.5" and "ln -s firefox-1.5.0.5 firefox" so that I retain the old installation (just in case) and automatically point users to the new location. Before I update I just have to delete the sym-link before unpacking the tarball.