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Firefox 3.5.1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the dot-oh-always-begs-for-fixes dept.

alek writes "A day after Slashdot reports about a self-inflicted vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, Mozilla releases 3.5.1. It addresses that security issue, but also fixes the annoying slow-startup on Windows. Bummer the UNIX wars have subsided, because apparently they also had to fix a problem where Firefox on a Sparc platform would crash when visiting www.hp.com!"

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  1. Good. by xlotlu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now I can re-enable TraceMonkey and slashdot will be fast again... sorta.

  2. Google Gears disabled again?! by sakis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kind of offtopic, but by upgrading to FF 3.5.1, Google Gears is again disabled. Why did Google allowed it to be compatible with only 3.5.0?!

  3. Re:Blue screen by msuarezalvarez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ironically though, SSH access to the box still typically works...

    That is not ironic: it is good design...

  4. Re:Blue screen by TheLink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Still pretty annoying but as you say you can usually recover by killing and restarting X.

    a) If you are a "Desktop Linux" user running actual Desktop applications, that means you lose most of your unsaved work (if there is a way to not lose the unsaved work, please let me know).
    b) If you use X as just a way to run screen/vi/emacs and browsers, then you are less affected.

    Basically if I let my mom/uncle/aunt use "Desktop Linux" and X locks up, it's effectively as bad as a BSOD for them.

    Saying X freezing is not a problem since you can usually recover by killing and restarting it is like saying that Windows 95 is stable as long as you regularly shutdown/exit to dos and type win to restart it[1].

    [1] you could actually do that in the old days of Win 95 :).

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  5. Firefox 3.5.1 released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so can anyone tell me why Firefox felt like it had to scan my hard drive in the first place? i had it set to delete history on exit. why then did it feel like it had to go looking in *other* programs' folders for history files?

  6. Re:Blue screen by geekboy642 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    tee? Really? What the hell sort of DESKTOP APPLICATIONS produce all of their output on the terminal? OpenOffice? GIMP? KMail? GVim?

    No, the only solution is the Jesus rule. Save your files. Save them early, save them often. Not just because the system is going to crash, but because you never know when the power will fail, lightning will strike, or a cow-orker will trip over your power cord.

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    Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio