Your favorite browser is now v1.5

[Mercutio]

Tool to turn a mass of extensions into a single .XPI file.

In other words, this is something that allows for a massive number of extensions to be installed in one go.

 

[Gilbo]

That's really handy Merc. It makes my life easier.

 

[Mercutio]

Beginnings of a Firefox document.

Had nothing better to do, so I spent most of the day writing it and putting together screenshots. It concentrates for the moment on Firefox features not available in crappier web browsers, and it assumes the user is running Windows.

Comments?

 

[Bozo]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060711-7234.html

Firefox is still gaining :-D


Bozo :joker:

 

[Splash]

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!


FIREFOX 1.5.0.5 released!


As Firefox takes on Internet Explorer, Firefox becomes more like Internet Explorer.

• 
  
  MFSA 2006-56 chrome: scheme loading remote content
  MFSA 2006-55 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5)
  MFSA 2006-54 XSS with XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(...)
  MFSA 2006-53 UniversalBrowserRead privilege escalation
  MFSA 2006-52 PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call
  MFSA 2006-51 Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined "new Object()"
  MFSA 2006-50 JavaScript engine vulnerabilities
  MFSA 2006-48 JavaScript new Function race condition
  MFSA 2006-47 Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains
  MFSA 2006-46 Memory corruption with simultaneous events
  MFSA 2006-45 Javascript navigator Object Vulnerability
  MFSA 2006-44 Code execution through deleted frame reference
  

 

[Adcadet]

Beginnings of a Firefox document.

Had nothing better to do, so I spent most of the day writing it and putting together screenshots. It concentrates for the moment on Firefox features not available in crappier web browsers, and it assumes the user is running Windows.

Comments?

I like it and learned some things. Nice bit of history at the beginning.

 

[Mercutio]

Some dickweed has finally gotten around to making a malware trojan that looks like a Firefox extension, too.

This is the REAL extension
And here's the story about the malware.

Note that the initial infection does not come from Firefox but from a standard-issue trojan download.

 

[Mercutio]

Thank you A.D.
Let me know if you'd like to see the more complete document.

 

[Adcadet]

I would love to see as much as you have. I find it nice to see what other people think makes for a more useful browser. Sometimes I disagree (I've tried IE tab but don't like it since I accidentally hit it far more frequently than I mean to by a ratio of ~100:0) but I sometimes find some nice tips. A blurb on how to get Filterset.G to block Gmail ads would be nice since I never could get that working.

 

[Adcadet]

Has anybody tried Firefox 2 beta 1? I've been running it for a few days now. Inline spell checking is awesome. Very similar to how Gmail does it, where you can right click on misspelled words for suggestions. It does crash on me with some regularity, however.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html

 

[LiamC]

Your favourite browser is now 1.5.06

Firefox 1.5.0.6 is a stability 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.

• Fixed an issue with playing Windows Media content

Release Date: August 2, 2006

 

[LiamC]

FireFox 2.0 Beta 2 is out

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b2/win32/en-US/

 

[Adcadet]

For far Firefox 2.0b2 seems much more stable than 2.0b1. I haven't been able to crash it in a few hours of use, something that I could do with 2.0b1.

 

[iGary]

I wasn't aware that Mozilla 1.7.12 had received a somewhat recent update in April of this year.

Mozilla 1.7.13 was officially released 21-April-2006.



http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.13/

 

[Tannin]

But SeaMonkey has replaced Mozilla in any case. Latest version: 1.0.4, 2 August 2006.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

 

[Buck]

Why bother when there is Opera 9.xx? : )

 

[Mercutio]

You just made my list, bucko.

 

[Tannin]

Welcome aboard, Buck

 

[Stereodude]

Why bother when there is Opera 9.xx? : )

I see the Bartender has been serving you too much of the happy sauce...

 

[Splash]

But SeaMonkey has replaced Mozilla in any case. Latest version: 1.0.4, 2 August 2006.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Thanks for reminding me, Tannin.

Dammit! I *finally* installed Seamonkey (just the web browser component), and I like it as much as Mozilla V1.7.13, mainly because it looks and feels like Moz.

The installation of Seamonkey more or less wiped out my installation of Moz V1.7 web browser, but that's OK. I could still get Moz V1.7 to run, but it was joined at the hip to Seamonkey in a way that made it better to just uninstall Moz V1.7 and leave it at that. Seamonkey and Moz V1.7 were sharing many if not all the web browser settings and certainly the Bookmarks.

I had been waiting a while for Seamonkey to stabilise -- or so I thought. Early version usage of Moz and Firefox left me psychologically scarred (less so with Firefox). The Seamonkey V1.0.4 web browser seams as stable as the Moz V1.7 web browser, probably because it is nothing more than Moz V1.7 source code dressed up in new clothing and named after a weird variety of shrimp.

As it is now, I'd put Seamonkey on my recommended list.

 

[Tannin]

I agree, Splash. I use it for around 40% of my browsing. (Opera 9 is about 50%, with Firefox getting a gurnsey for the remaining 10%.)

Oh, one thing that bugs me: I keep getting the dark blue Seamonkey icon mixed up with the dark blue Thunderbird one and then, just when I've hammerd my lexdixic shape into brain, the little minimised icon throws me because they forgot to change that one over from Mozilla.

 

[Splash]

...the little minimised icon throws me because they forgot to change that one over from Mozilla.

Isn't that actually a Netscrape icon?

The Seamonkey V1.0.4 web browser seams as stable as...

The above is what happens when you type Seamonkey reptitively, you mistakenly use seams instead of seems.

Must be time to go to sleep. Yes.

 

[Splash]

Attribution has been corrected:

The Seamonkey V1.0.4 web browser seams as stable as...

The above is what happens when you type Seamonkey reptitively, you mistakenly use seams instead of seems.

Must be time to go to sleep. Yes.

 

[LiamC]

According to Le Inq, Firefox 2.0 will be out tomorrow. RC3 has been pretty stable for me.

 

[Mercutio]

I'm running 2.0 (no RC, full FF2.0) now. At least some mirrors have it today.
My only complaint at the moment is that the Session Saver extension doesn't work with it.

 

[Mercutio]

OK. Complaint #2: I liked the Close Tab button better on the end of the Tab bar. I'm sure someone will come along and fix it back to the way it used to be, but IMO moving that particular UI element around is just stupid. It's no longer possible to quickly close tabs with the pointer. That sucks.

 

[ddrueding]

I'm running 2.0 (no RC, full FF2.0) now. At least some mirrors have it today.

Merc, obviously I'm not looking in the right places...help?

 

[Mercutio]

Never heard of FTP?

 

[ddrueding]

I'm sorry, it wasn't wrapped in a pretty HTML interface and linked directly from the homepage; nor was it on a google search.

Thanks.

 

[Mercutio]

Kids today. If it's not HTTP they don't want anything to do with it.
The world was better when more things were on gopher servers!

 

[ddrueding]

Meh, the FTP site is swamped anyway. So here I am on my new machine still using IE (64-bit(!)) because I want FF2.0 and can't get it

 

[Mercutio]

OK. I can fix that.

It's all over torrent networks now.

Or

This site I've never heard of.

 

[ddrueding]

Hittin' up the hippo with IE...

It's kinda like having unprotected sex with a really ugly stanger at a frat party...

 

[Mercutio]

So, you're saying that if I go to a frat party, I might be able to have sex?
Why didn't anyone tell me this?!?

 

[Handruin]

You might...but you'll want to cut it off afterwords... No saying which diseases will be lingering at a frat party.

 

[ddrueding]

I'll second Handy on this one. Even when I was at my most promiscuous, and drunkest, at a sorority house, I still new better...

 

[Mercutio]

I do not think you guys understand the depths of desperation involved in my previous statement.

 

[Handruin]

No...I understand...but the consequences aren't worth the score. You'd be better off with a realdoll.

 

[ddrueding]

You might actually be better in Phuket, Thiland...scary as that is...

 

[ddrueding]

Merc,

Here is the fix to your tab-closing woes