SillyDog701

[beanboy89]

The Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3. This new build fixes some minor bugs as well as several known security related vulnerabilities. It is recommended that all Firefox users update to this latest version.
Release Notes

Downloads:
Windows Installer
Mac OSX Disk Image
Linux Installer
Linux tar.gz file

FTP Directory
ftp.mozilla.org Mirrors

Windows Zipfiles are not available for this release.

(Destickified by Andrew T. 11-5-2005)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050408

[Andrew T.]

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 is running very well so far. It is essentially the same as earlier Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x releases in appearance and general features.

The Windows bug that resulted in multiple entries appearing in "Add or Remove Programs" when overwriting an older Firefox version with a newer one, such as when using Firefox's built-in Update facility, has been fixed with this release. Although installing a new Mozilla-based browser over an older one was formerly generally discouraged, it has apparently been safe to do so with recent Firefox releases.

Ironically, I had installed a new Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 release candidate earlier today. This final release appears to be identical to that final release candidate. So the incompatibilities with extensions and other regressions that had surfaced with earlier release candidates must have been fixed.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[James]

I"ve had it for some time now. As you can see from my user agent string the build is not as new as yours. Is that something that should concern me?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0.3

[Andrew T.]

Only [tt]en-US[/tt] builds appear to be available as of now. By contrast, I recall that [tt]en-GB[/tt] and other international localizations of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 were available from the outset.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[Fulvio]

I"ve had it for some time now. As you can see from my user agent string the build is not as new as yours. Is that something that should concern me?

Concerned, no. I have notbeen able to keep up with the the different builds, and http://www.mozillazine.org/ says that is the seventh build. But, since they don't say that it is the final version, and they should know, I am waiting.

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

[Mandrake]

The Windows bug that resulted in multiple entries appearing in "Add or Remove Programs" when overwriting an older Firefox version with a newer one, such as when using Firefox's built-in Update facility, has been fixed with this release. Although installing a new Mozilla-based browser over an older one was formerly generally discouraged, it has apparently been safe to do so with recent Firefox releases.

I'm very glad that this minor, although annoying, bug has been fixed.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[Alice]

I"ve had it for some time now. As you can see from my user agent string the build is not as new as yours. Is that something that should concern me?

James, Was your Firefox 1.0.3 release candidate the fourth release, from the 2005-04-05-17-aviary1.0.1/ download folder (linked from the "another shot at 1.0.3" " April 05, 2005 Windows installer link from Asa's weblog) ??? If so, then that particular version was buggy, in that it broke a lot of extensions.

See:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6418
Testing Wanted for Latest Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Release Candidates
Friday April 15th, 2005

The fourth set of 1.0.3 release candidate builds also introduced a security change that broke many extensions

In any case, I would go ahead and install the Firefox 1.0.3 final version. It will install right on top of the Firefox 1.0.3 version you have now, with no problems at all. ..... that's what I did.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

[Alice]

I have notbeen able to keep up with the the different builds, and http://www.mozillazine.org/ says that is the seventh build. But, since they don't say that it is the final version, and they should know, I am waiting.

Yes, indeed, it's the final version...... as hard as it might be to believe .....

Check out http://www.mozilla.org/ - the link to Fiirefox 1.0.3 (as well as Mozilla 1.7.7) is there.
Only final versions are linked from that page.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

[James]

Thanks, Alice. I've downloaded and installed the latest version. I appreciate the "heads-up."

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[Alice]

James, you're welcome

Regarding extensions, there's a list that's being maintained on the MozillaZine forums:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=251563
Broken extensions in FF 1.0.3

I only have two Firefox extensions, but wouldn't you know it, one of them was listed in the Fixed / Working list, as needing an uninstall before updating to the fixed version:
User Agent Switcher 0.6.5 (Uninstall previous version first)

So, even though I didn't see anything the matter with my installed User Agent Switcher version 0.6.2 I figured there must be some issue so I uninstalled it (in both profiles) and then downloaded and installed the new User_Agent_Switcher_0.6.5.xpi

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 (ax)

[Alice]

No wonder Firefox 1.0.3 final release took so long!
See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/securit ... ities.html
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories

Fixed in Firefox 1.0.3
MFSA 2005-33 Javascript "lambda" replace exposes memory contents
MFSA 2005-34 javascript: PLUGINSPAGE code execution
MFSA 2005-35 Showing blocked javascript: popup uses wrong privilege context
MFSA 2005-36 Cross-site scripting through global scope pollution
MFSA 2005-37 Code execution through javascript: favicons
MFSA 2005-38 Search plugin cross-site scripting
MFSA 2005-39 Arbitrary code execution from Firefox sidebar panel II
MFSA 2005-40 Missing Install object instance checks
MFSA 2005-41 Privilege escalation via DOM property overrides

Discussion here:
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8768
Secunia: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

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