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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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