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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on September 15, 2004, 06:48:14 pm

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: aldo_14 on September 15, 2004, 06:48:14 pm

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/download.html?http%3A//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10/Firefox%20Setup%201.0PR.exe

Don't recall seeing this elsewhere.  I think Thunderbird has also been updated.

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: Grey Wolf on September 15, 2004, 06:56:36 pm

Just as a notice, this is really the first Release Candidate for Firefox 1.0. The actual final release is in November or so, IIRC.

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: Kamikaze on September 15, 2004, 07:03:55 pm

While we're on the subject of the Mozilla family of products, there's been a security advisory for Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird.

The bugs (many are buffer overflow bugs) have been fixed in Firefox Preview Release, Mozilla 1.7.3 and Thunderbird 0.8.

http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: vyper on September 15, 2004, 07:55:10 pm

So if you had 0.9.2 onwards it's all good :p

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: Setekh on September 16, 2004, 05:35:37 am

RC1? Exciting, I'll pass this onto my brother. :)

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: aldo_14 on September 16, 2004, 05:39:31 am

Quote

Originally posted by Kamikaze
While we're on the subject of the Mozilla family of products, there's been a security advisory for Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird.

The bugs (many are buffer overflow bugs) have been fixed in Firefox Preview Release, Mozilla 1.7.3 and Thunderbird 0.8.

http://secunia.com/advisories/12526/

also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/15/mozilla_patches/

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: karajorma on September 16, 2004, 06:50:24 am

Apparently they fixed about 10 security problems in Mozilla in the latest patch. I'd probably say that this was comparable to the number they fix in IE every month too if it weren't for the fact that these holes were patched BEFORE there were exploits available for them :D

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: Clave on September 16, 2004, 08:08:40 am

It looks good.  I am dumping original Mozilla and Safari right now...

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: aldo_14 on September 16, 2004, 09:00:38 am

Quote

Originally posted by karajorma
Apparently they fixed about 10 security problems in Mozilla in the latest patch. I'd probably say that this was comparable to the number they fix in IE every month too if it weren't for the fact that these holes were patched BEFORE there were exploits available for them :D

As the reg article points out, it looks like Mozillas rewarding for bug-finders is paying off :)

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: IceFire on September 16, 2004, 04:19:40 pm

Aside from security, any changes with the 0.9.x versions?

Also, do you guys uinstall and reinstall or do you just install ontop?

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: StratComm on September 16, 2004, 04:21:39 pm

Install on top, it seems to take care of older versions pretty well.  They went and added the alert bar (like IE under SP2) though, which I consider to be a negative.  Still trying to figure out how to turn it off.  The search feature (Control-F) is nice though, very fast and un-obtrusive.

Title: Firefox 1.0 release
Post by: Clave on September 16, 2004, 04:21:50 pm

I always tend to fresh install stuff, then import my junk from the old one....