SillyDog701

[beanboy89]

The Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla 1.7.10. Mozilla 1.7.10 fixes a number of known known vulnerabilities. It is worth noting there was no Mozilla 1.7.9 release as it is presumed that Gecko revisions are wanted to be equal to that of the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 releases eariler this week, which also use Gecko 1.7.10.

Release Notes

Downloads: Ordered alphabetically, by platform.
Linux Installer
Linux Tar.gz file
Mac OS X Disk Image
Windows Installer
Windows Zip file

FTP Directory Mirrors
Mozilla Releases Page

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 SeaMonkey/1.0a

[Ramona]

Thanks for the heads up, Billy!

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UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)

[J-M]

Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products page, i.e. Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories was updated too:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/securit ... zilla1.7.9

For some reason it's titled as Fixed in Mozilla 1.7.9.

MFSA 2005-56 Code execution through shared function objects
MFSA 2005-55 XHTML node spoofing
MFSA 2005-54 Javascript prompt origin spoofing
MFSA 2005-52 Same origin violation: frame calling top.focus()
MFSA 2005-51 The return of frame-injection spoofing
MFSA 2005-50 Possibly exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo()
MFSA 2005-48 Same-origin violation with InstallTrigger callback
MFSA 2005-46 XBL scripts ran even when Javascript disabled
MFSA 2005-45 Content-generated event vulnerabilities

including nine fixed security vulnerabilities.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi-FI; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[J-M]

Separate MFSA entries has 1.7.9 information as well:

....
Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite

Fixed in: Firefox 1.0.5
Thunderbird 1.0.5
Mozilla Suite 1.7.9

from Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2005-46; see

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announc ... 05-46.html

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi-FI; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[DiscoFever]

Will updates to Mozilla Suite end once "Seamonkey" is released?...It is replacing the "suite"?...or wil they be two seperate browsers each with it's own updates and identity?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.01

[beanboy89]

Will updates to Mozilla Suite end once "Seamonkey" is released?...It is replacing the "suite"?...or wil they be two seperate browsers each with it's own updates and identity?

SeaMoneky is not ment as an upgrade or to replace the Mozilla Suite. SeaMonkey will be developed independently of the Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla Suite.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716

[ambloch]

Please forgive my relative lack of techiness. I have used only Netscape for many years as both a browser and as mail client. I downloaded 8.02 only to find it does not contain a mail client. My old one from 7.0 still works.

Is the latest version of that the new mozilla referred to? Will it be able to accept all my old mail, etc?

Thanks,

AMB

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Netscape/8.0.2

[Ramona]

Welcome to the Forum, ambloch!

If you prefer to stay with Netscape 8.0.2, you can download Thunderbird, which is Mozilla's stand alone Mail Client. On installing, it will automatically migrate your Netscape 7.0 Mail.

If you want to switch to Mozilla 1.7.10, it does have the integrated Mail & Newsgroups component. As there have been many changes since Netscape 7.0, I would recommend creating a new Profile for Mozilla 1.7.10.

If you need help moving from the old Profile to the new, we will be more than happy to help you with the process.

Ramona

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)

[Fulvio]

Ramona,
I see the ax after FF. Is the plugin a new one, or did I confuse that one with my silly User Agent.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thundergrub/1.0.6

[Ramona]

Fulvio,

It's the same plugin used for Fx 1.0.4. Still works in 1.0.6...


Ramona

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)

[ambloch]

Ramona:

What are the differences for the non-tech user between Mozilla and Thunderbird? Are they equally easy to set up, i.e. get my settings, old mail, etc. from Netscape?

Alfred

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Netscape/8.0.2

[DJGM]

Will updates to Mozilla Suite end once "Seamonkey" is released?
It is replacing the "suite"?...or wil they be two seperate browsers
each with it's own updates and identity?

SeaMonkey is being developed as a continuation from the Mozilla 1.8 "trunk", by an independent group
of volunteers currently known as "The Seamonkey Council". Meanwhile, the Mozilla Foundation intends
to continue with Mozilla Suite development from the 1.7.x "stable branch" for at least the forseeable
future, with version 1.7.10 being the latest offering of this product line.

How long it will be before the powers that be at the Mozilla Foundation decide to axe the Mozilla Suite
altogether, and just develop the standalone apps only (assuming they ever do) remains to be seen.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

[Ramona]

What are the differences for the non-tech user between Mozilla and Thunderbird? Are they equally easy to set up, i.e. get my settings, old mail, etc. from Netscape?

Mozilla is a suite of components: browser, mail & newsgroups, composer for web page authoring.

Thunderbird is a standalone Mail Client. Mail & Newsgroups only, to be used with Firefox, or Netscape 8.0.2, or for any other standalone browser...

If you decide on Mozilla, it will detect your Netscape 7.0 Profile and use that information. However, as there are major changes in the code from Netscape 7.0 to Mozilla 1.7.10, you would be well advised to create a new Profile for Mozilla. We can help you moving the Profile data from NS 7.0 to Mozilla 1.7.10.

Netscape is based on Mozilla source code, and Netscape 7.0 used Mozilla 1.0.1 source code. So you can see that there have been some major changes since 2002 when Mozilla 1.0.1 was released, and July 2005 when Mozilla 1.7.10 was released...

If you decide on Thunderbird, and continue using Netscape 8.0.2 for your standalone browser, then Thunderbird will migrate your 7.0 Mail to Thunderbird automatically.

Let us know if you have further questions.

Ramona

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)

[Fulvio]

The active X plugin does work, so the User Agent I was getting: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thundergrub/1.0.6, should have been:1.0.6ax.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 SeaMonkey/1.0a