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Offline aldo_14

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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.
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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/
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So if you had 0.9.2 onwards it's all good :p
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RC1? Exciting, I'll pass this onto my brother. :)
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Offline aldo_14

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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/

 

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

 

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

Also, do you guys uinstall and reinstall or do you just install ontop?
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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.
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I always tend to fresh install stuff, then import my junk from the old one....
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