The reason they released it was it was all they had. They didn't have time to test and integrate a new version. It's the firefox people's fault for having the vulnerabilities, I think they're just trying to distract from their own failings.
This is frankly a load of bollocks. If Netscape is going to harp about their commitment to security, then holding off release to include the fixes from Firefox 1.0.4 would have been the only right thing to do.
Sure, the problems existed in Firefox itself, but Netscape has chosen to (a) base it's products on Firefox, and (b) tout security as a primary feature. Nobody has forced them to do it, least of all the Mozilla Foundation.
What you're seeing Firefox devs say has nothing to do with a smokescreen. It's simply an observation that Netscape, the company who offers "more security choices" than anyone else chose to release a product with known critical vulnerabilities instead of waiting a single day to patch them. As they've demonstrated, it only did take them that long.
I am a fair-use advocate, but I don't see the legitimate purpose to trackerless torrents that cannot be fulfilled by trackered torrents.
Then rather shortsighted you are. If I take a home video and want to share it with my friends and family, previously I would have had to upload it somewhere and spend money on web hosting. Now, with trackerless BT I can easily share this file without having to worry about web hosting or running a tracker. I just have to email the torrent file to people and run a BT client on my machine.
Legitimate file sharing doesn't only include large organisations "sharing" files with their customers/users. There's a whole other side to it as well that you've most conveniently forgotten about in your rush to share your misplaced sarcasm with the world.
If you really like tabs, there's a FF extension which maps the window open facility to creating a new tab. It's pretty damn nice, especially if you're fond of clicking links in emails.
Why use an extension when Firefox itself has this functionality built-in? Look under Tools | Options | Advanced | Tabbed Browsing.
Currently, it's not scheduled to be marked as public before 4th October. It's still marked as private so that people have an opportunity to upgrade before the details are made public.
People that took mainly them for granted, and then lost them.
See - Germans under Hitler Hong Kong Citizens after the turnover.
As a Hong Kong Permanent Resident, I have yet to lose any rights that I would have had under British rule. Can you perhaps name one of these rights that I 'lost'? So far the Chinese/Hong Kong government have *tried* to curtail the rights of Hong Kong people, but have been *unsuccessful*. That they've tried and failed, to me is quite reassuring.
I remember being asked to submit a paper electronically once. I happily compiled by printing the paper, and then scanning it at low DPI into a PDF file without using OCR. They couldn't say anything because they asked for it in 'electronic format' without specifying further.
Besides, this is just an additional access control for people who already need a visa, anyway. And ya know what's usually required to get a visa? To be fingerprinted.
Have you even ever applied for a visa before? If so I'm interested to know which country required you to be fingerprinted for a visa? I've travelled a LOT, and never have I been required to be fingerprinted to have a visa issued.
Not quite. I'm a citizen of the United Kingdom, but because I'm here on a student visa, I also had to be fingerprinted and have a digital photo taken upon entering the US yesterday.
The exact rule is that anyone entering the United States on a visa is required to have this process done, regardless of their nationality.
If you want to know about MiniPCI wireless options for your Inspiron, go to http://forums.us.dell.com and take a look around there.
Based on the information I found there, yesterday I ordered a MiniPCI Truemobile 1300 802.11b/g card for my Inspiron 8200 from Dell Spare Parts. It was only $44.95 + shipping ($8 for 3-5 day).
I doubt that it is affecting the GSM tower, since GSM works at 1900 MHz and your antenna is probably working at lower bands.
Wrong. GSM in Egypt works at either the 900MHz or 1800MHz band, as it does in most countries around the world. The US and Canada, along with maybe at most 5 other countries use the 1900MHz band for GSM. For example, almost all of Asia, and all of Europe works on the 900/1800MHz bands.
To sign on to Hotmail (in IE 6 only?) or MSN Messenger, at least, you have to associate a Passport account with your XP user account
This is completely incorrect. There is an option to associate your passport account with your XP user account, and this makes things easier sometimes. BUT, it is an option, you do not have to associate your passport account to your XP user account to do anything. In fact, most of my family at home uses both MSN/Hotmail together and separately on Windows XP without linking to their XP user accounts.
I don't think so. It supports Win98, Win98SE and WinME. Maybe you'd like to show me exactly where on the site it says that it supports Windows XP. I think you must be imagining things.
I think you need to read the site before you post.
I'm not quite sure where to start, or how to respond to this comment. So I'll just say that you're a moron. I think that covers pretty much everything.
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Maybe Debian could rename their Firefox to MPL/GPL/LGPL/Firefox.
I'm an alumnus of UChicago as well, I've posted a blog entry about how I think this event has been handled.
This is frankly a load of bollocks. If Netscape is going to harp about their commitment to security, then holding off release to include the fixes from Firefox 1.0.4 would have been the only right thing to do.
Sure, the problems existed in Firefox itself, but Netscape has chosen to (a) base it's products on Firefox, and (b) tout security as a primary feature. Nobody has forced them to do it, least of all the Mozilla Foundation.
What you're seeing Firefox devs say has nothing to do with a smokescreen. It's simply an observation that Netscape, the company who offers "more security choices" than anyone else chose to release a product with known critical vulnerabilities instead of waiting a single day to patch them. As they've demonstrated, it only did take them that long.
Then rather shortsighted you are. If I take a home video and want to share it with my friends and family, previously I would have had to upload it somewhere and spend money on web hosting. Now, with trackerless BT I can easily share this file without having to worry about web hosting or running a tracker. I just have to email the torrent file to people and run a BT client on my machine.
Legitimate file sharing doesn't only include large organisations "sharing" files with their customers/users. There's a whole other side to it as well that you've most conveniently forgotten about in your rush to share your misplaced sarcasm with the world.
You're most welcome, but I'd recommend upgrading to 1.0 now. :)
I've posted some more interesting news and Mozilla developer blog links and a screenshot of the new Firefox Google search interface on my blog:
inside aebrahim's head - firefox 1.0 is here!
If you really like tabs, there's a FF extension which maps the window open facility to creating a new tab. It's pretty damn nice, especially if you're fond of clicking links in emails.
Why use an extension when Firefox itself has this functionality built-in? Look under Tools | Options | Advanced | Tabbed Browsing.
In a few days, you'll be able to see the full bug report here:
7 08
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259
Currently, it's not scheduled to be marked as public before 4th October. It's still marked as private so that people have an opportunity to upgrade before the details are made public.
People that took mainly them for granted, and then lost them.
See -
Germans under Hitler
Hong Kong Citizens after the turnover.
As a Hong Kong Permanent Resident, I have yet to lose any rights that I would have had under British rule. Can you perhaps name one of these rights that I 'lost'? So far the Chinese/Hong Kong government have *tried* to curtail the rights of Hong Kong people, but have been *unsuccessful*. That they've tried and failed, to me is quite reassuring.
I remember being asked to submit a paper electronically once. I happily compiled by printing the paper, and then scanning it at low DPI into a PDF file without using OCR. They couldn't say anything because they asked for it in 'electronic format' without specifying further.
Not quite. I'm a citizen of the United Kingdom, but because I'm here on a student visa, I also had to be fingerprinted and have a digital photo taken upon entering the US yesterday.
The exact rule is that anyone entering the United States on a visa is required to have this process done, regardless of their nationality.
480kB/s down, 250kB/s up at the end. Both slowly increased as I accumulated more and more of the file.
I'm on a campus net connection, with a 10Mbit ethernet connection to the campus backbone.
If you want to know about MiniPCI wireless options for your Inspiron, go to http://forums.us.dell.com and take a look around there.
Based on the information I found there, yesterday I ordered a MiniPCI Truemobile 1300 802.11b/g card for my Inspiron 8200 from Dell Spare Parts. It was only $44.95 + shipping ($8 for 3-5 day).
I doubt that it is affecting the GSM tower, since GSM works at 1900 MHz and your antenna is probably working at lower bands.
Wrong. GSM in Egypt works at either the 900MHz or 1800MHz band, as it does in most countries around the world. The US and Canada, along with maybe at most 5 other countries use the 1900MHz band for GSM. For example, almost all of Asia, and all of Europe works on the 900/1800MHz bands.
To sign on to Hotmail (in IE 6 only?) or MSN Messenger, at least, you have to associate a Passport account with your XP user account
This is completely incorrect. There is an option to associate your passport account with your XP user account, and this makes things easier sometimes. BUT, it is an option, you do not have to associate your passport account to your XP user account to do anything. In fact, most of my family at home uses both MSN/Hotmail together and separately on Windows XP without linking to their XP user accounts.
Sucks be to everyone who bought a MS License subscription and was hoping to get an upgrade for the extra money they paid.
... I just picked up a 2.26GHz chip today.
I guess now is the time for PNG (and MNG) to really shine.
I just bought one of these. Its a Dell Inspiron 8200. P4-M 1.7GHz, Enhanced UXGA, GeForce4 440Go 64MB, 512MB DDR SDRAM, 60GB 5400rpm HD.
It runs RTCW in 1600x1200 with everything turned all the way up very comfortably. I'm VERY happy. It'll do fine with Doom 3.
I don't think so. It supports Win98, Win98SE and WinME. Maybe you'd like to show me exactly where on the site it says that it supports Windows XP. I think you must be imagining things.
I think you need to read the site before you post.
Great. Maybe when you can point to a product that does this for the current version of Windows people will care.
I'm not quite sure where to start, or how to respond to this comment. So I'll just say that you're a moron. I think that covers pretty much everything.
What an idiot. They're natives of India. You know, the country in Asia.
I think this post just requires a one word answer:
Duh!