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Firefox 1.0.3 out

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CTho9305

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Firefox 1.0.3 was just released. This is a slightly bigger deal than previous releases, because it can break a few extensions due to an important security fix.

The Mozilla Foundation contacted the authors of extensions with problems so they were fixed ahead of time, but it's still possible a few won't work.

Asa has been blogging about extensions issues and 1.0.3 - this post is particularly relevant.

Please keep all Firefox 1.0.3 extension issues in this thread.

edit: Here is the updated list of known vulnerabilities.
 
LOL.

It becoming like the NVIDIA drivers, an Upgrade before you got around to use what you already have.

At a certain point it becomes pain rather than need.

:sun:
 
Firefox is turning into an IE, a new security update every week. The good news is both my Adblock and Flashblock plugins still work.
 
Originally posted by: KB
Firefox is turning into an IE, a new security update every week. The good news is both my Adblock and Flashblock plugins still work.
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I think it was only a matter of time. Browsers have to deal with so much poorly defined crap that there are going to be bugs. A lot of bugs.
 
Originally posted by: KB
Firefox is turning into an IE, a new security update every week.
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Hopefully this is just a phase... as the popularity grows, old holes are being found and fixed. Some of these issues have been known about for a long time but nobody realized they were exploitable until now. The question is, are the new features adding fewer holes than they're fixing? If so, it's still heading well in the right direction.

The good news is both my Adblock and Flashblock plugins still work.
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Yes, the vast majority of extensions (adblock, flashblock) work properly. All plugins (flash, etc) should work the same way.
 
Originally posted by: KB
Firefox is turning into an IE, a new security update every week.
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I think you are missing the point: Microsoft does not patch IE security flaws often enough.
It's better to be able to update Firefox even a couple of times a week than be a sitting duck for months at a time with IE.
If you do not want to update Firefox - do not. But at least you have an option.
 
Strange, now it (1.0.3) says critical Updates available, although no-one shows up when searching for them.
 
Originally posted by: qbek
Originally posted by: KB
Firefox is turning into an IE, a new security update every week.
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I think you are missing the point: Microsoft does not patch IE security flaws often enough.
It's better to be able to update Firefox even a couple of times a week than be a sitting duck for months at a time with IE.
If you do not want to update Firefox - do not. But at least you have an option.
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Microsoft bundles their security updates every month, rather than release them as they become available. This is at the request of corporate admins who have to plan for update deployments on critical machines.
 
Thanks CTho. We appreciate the work on and the updates about firefox, even though you're a mozilla man 🙂
 
Microsoft bundles their security updates every month, rather than release them as they become available. This is at the request of corporate admins who have to plan for update deployments on critical machines.
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Which is extremely stupid. How often MS releases updates is irrelevant, those 'corporate admins' should set a patch schedule and just follow it instead of getting MS to delay patch releases for them.
 
Strange the update broke all of my extensions (on startup it said disabling incompatible extensions then disabled everything) so I just reinstalled all the extensions and they work fine. Is there any easy way to just reinstall all current extensions so I don?t have to manually do it on my other machines?
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Microsoft bundles their security updates every month, rather than release them as they become available. This is at the request of corporate admins who have to plan for update deployments on critical machines.
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Which is extremely stupid. How often MS releases updates is irrelevant, those 'corporate admins' should set a patch schedule and just follow it instead of getting MS to delay patch releases for them.
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So they can get owned because they patch on the weekends and MS makes a release on Monday.

All the major recent Windows viruses/exploits have occured on the wide scale after MS released the patches. They do release out of schedule if there is an exploit circulating. In this case, Microsoft is doing the correct thing. Release when needed or on schedule otherwise.
 
All the major recent Windows viruses/exploits have occured on the wide scale after MS released the patches. They do release out of schedule if there is an exploit circulating. In this case, Microsoft is doing the correct thing. Release when needed or on schedule otherwise.
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For those corporate people that's irrelevant, 99% of their boxes should be behind a firewall and the exposed boxes should be in a DMZ so the internal user's boxes will be seperate from the vulnerable boxes so the most that will happen is you get 1 or 2 boxes taken over instead of a thousand. And large number of the exploits rely on stupid default settings so if your boxes are setup well they won't be vulnerable anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Version 1.03 still freezes on me when I try to do a search at Newegg.🙁
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😕

No problems with Newegg's search for me. Have you tried uninstalling your extensions?
 
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