SillyDog701

[beanboy89]

Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 has been released to fix some security related bugs in Firefox 0.10 (1.0 RC).

Important Security Update for Firefox Available

October 1, 2004. The Mozilla Foundation releases an important security update for Firefox. All users should upgrade to the latest version of the Firefox Preview Release. A patch is available for current Preview Release users.

Download information:

* Visit the Firefox homepage to download the latest version of Firefox Preview Release (Firefox 0.10.1)
* Current Firefox Preview Release users: when the update icon () appears in the upper right corner of your screen, just click on it to install the patch, or click here to install it.

Download info:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/f ... es/0.10.1/

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

[Andrew T.]

Aside from the security update, this release is identical in appearance and performance to the initial version of Mozilla 1.0 PR. The software still refers to itself as "Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release," and the Firefox 1.0PR 0.10.1 archives on Mozilla's FTP server even have the same file names as the earlier 0.10 versions.

This particular update appears to be available both as part of a new Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR 0.10.1 release, and a simple installable patch for Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR 0.10 users.

I am still noticing problems with pop-up windows appearing when closing a tab on certain sites. Hopefully this bug will be remedied soon.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[Fulvio]

Andrew, your link gives an empty page. There is a patches folder in beanboy89, with two files. I will try the largest one first. no big loss if something goes wrong, having a defective program.
And, Firefox prevents the patch from being installed. Ok, which patch?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10

[Edward]

See here for details.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[Fulvio]

When I tried to install the patch I was blocked, and not the routine information that something what trying to install.
It had the appearance of the Junk Mail line. I even tried to release the block, and it did not work, so I got the complete download. Yea, popups and all.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[Edward]

Unfortunately, the popup blocker is still broken in 1.0.1.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

[Alice]

I Installed the 259708.xpi patch for Firefox 1.0pr1 from the "click here" link at
http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-10-01-02.html

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox install.log now shows:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... 259708.xpi

-- 2004-10-03 13:42:06
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Patch for bug 259708 (version 1.0.0.0)
--------------------

[1/2] Replacing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsHelperAppDlg.js
[2/2] Installing: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\bug259708.js

Install completed successfully -- 2004-10-03 13:42:06

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[geffr]

I have no explanation for why, but this release seems to have fixed the Win 98 SE memory leak that myself & others experienced in the first release of pr 1.

Geff

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[Antony]

This Security Maintenance is the fix for file deletion flaw in Firefox.

Firefox suffers from a vulnerability that could allow hackers to delete all the files in the Download directory, which by default in Windows is set to the Desktop. To exploit the flaw, the attacker would have to entice a user to download a file from a Web site.

Users can avoid the issue by canceling unexpected file save prompts as well as any from an untrusted site, said the foundation. Users should also right-click download links, then use the "Save link as" selection in the pop-up menu.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9

[geffr]

It also seems to have a new feature that won't allow sites like ebay to forward the browser to a new page after sign in. Probably a good idea, although a bit of a pain.

As I said above, I have no idea WHY PR 1.01 does not exibit the horrible Win98 Memory leak that 1.0 did; it also makes no sense to me as I have also heard it's only a security fix but that is my experience. After taking a couple more days with it, I can say that the problem is definately gone on both my machines.

Geff

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[J-M]

There is almost a month to final Firefox 1.0 release, so I desided to wrote instructions with three screenshot pictures about update issue, available in Finnish too if there are Finnish speaking readers .
See http://www.mozillakirja.com/security.htm , section "Instructions in English".

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919 Firefox/0.10.1

[J-M]

This fix is included to Firefox 1.0 release, of course.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi-FI; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0