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Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1, Firefox 1.5.0.5 Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yay-for-mythical-creatures dept.

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!"

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  1. Available? by fyrie · · Score: 5, Informative

    As in pushed out to you without asking you first. That was quite the surprise.

    1. Re:Available? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Informative

      You can turn off auto updating in your prefs if you want.

      Preferences > Advanced > Update tab.

      Yeah, that kind of annoyed me the first time, but in retrospect it is good for the general public to have automatic be on by default.

  2. Finally! by angrytuna · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

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  3. Firefox Portable 1.5.0.5 & 2.0 b1: Works on US by CritterNYC · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:a problem with firefox installs by gatzke · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

    So you get the old version installed and kept as well.

    Then I get into /usr/bin and soft link the application there

    cd /usr/bin
    ln -s /opt/mozilla-1.5.2/bin/mozilla ./mozilla

    Sometimes I keep the old version as a softlink as well

    ln -s /opt/mozilla-1.4/bin/mozilla ./mozilla.old

  5. Re:a problem with firefox installs by John.Thompson · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.