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Mozilla Firefox (official thread)

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In the Tools -> Options menu, I told it to "check for updates," and it came up with nothing... so I just went to the home page and downloaded 1.0.5, so I suppose that means that the auto-update feature is still not working properly. This seems to be the biggest weakness that Firefox has right now. It's not hard by any means, but you shouldn't have to reinstall everytime an update comes along
 
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Quote from the download page..."Firefox 1.0.5 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version."

No update for updates...I don't notice anything new really with this version but if it's all security I guess that's a good thing...I'll still live and die by FF over IE any day
 
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Firefox 1.0.6 was released today.

Mozilla fixes flawed Firefox fix
by Antony Savvas
Thursday 21 July 2005

The open source Firefox browser has been updated for the second time in just over a week after the previous fix caused problems.

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0.6 of Firefox to fix version 1.0.5, which broke important application extensions, including e-mail encryption options.

There have now been more flaws in the Firefox browser this year than in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – the browser that Firefox is aiming to take market share from.

Firefox's repeated updates mean users have to keep re-installing a whole new browser every time an update is released.

Mozilla is currently developing a browser update system to allow users to add just the updates in the same way Internet Explorer users can install theirs.
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Firefox 1.0.7 released.

link to release notes
Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
This version includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability.
Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7
  • Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
  • Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
  • Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
  • Fix to restore <code>InstallTrigger.getVersion()</code> for Extension authors
  • Other stability and security fixes
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Perhaps one of you folks can answer a question for me regarding Mozilla Firefox. I downloaded the program and installed it. Problem is when I click on the desktop icon to run it, it opens the browser window which has all the toolbars and drop down menus at the top but the main viewing window is completely blank. The little circle thing in the upper right hand corner is moving indicating that it is supposedly trying to connect but nothing ever appears in the viewing window. In the lower left hand corner is a little message saysing "looking for mozilla.org" or something to that effect. I tried typing another address in the address window like Yahoo and still nothing happens other then the message in the lower left corner changes to "looking for www.yahoo.com. Am I not doing something right or is it just not working? I'm running Windows XP Professional with SP2. I just wanted to try it to see how it compared to IE after reading so many pros and cons on IE.
 
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Maybe your connection settings aren't quite right. Go to tools > options, and in the "general settings," click on the bottom right button (should be "connection settings"). The default option that you probably want is "Direct connection to the Internet." If you use a proxy though, then you need to either auto-detect that, or put in the information.
 
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