Coding misstep forces new Firefox release

News.com ^ | 2005-07-18 | Renai LeMay

[N3WBI3]

Wow this could turn out to be a pretty big black eye for FF. I think the problem might be mitigated in the future if they release all the languages at once..

[N3WBI3]

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Does anyone know if this is why Fedora has not released its update for 1.0.4 yet?

[for-q-clinton]

How can this be. I've only heard that big bad M$ makes such stupid mistakes. Is firefox Open Source? It must not be Open Source because Open Source NEVER makes such a failure.

Give me Open Source as it never has bugs or security holes and it always easily patches. Is that a contradiction in that statement? oh well. Long live Open Source and down with the evil vile M$.
{/sarcasm}

[MarkeyD]

You get what you pay for.

[grey_whiskers]

Anti-near-monopoly OS Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

Well, at least it isn't like some OS's / applications where mistakes seem to force the original release even BEFORE a fix.

Full Disclosure: It was promised that the Gates of Hell would not prevail against the Church. It remains to be seen if the "Hell of Gates" will prevail against the forces of open-source. ;-)

[ImaGraftedBranch]

What? I heard they have the best programmers at that open source company! How can this be? And I bought their stock!

I have a right to joke about this. I've been writing assembler for 25 years. I've earned it.

[MarkeyD]

They're good if they are competing in one of those obfuscation contests.

[rwfromkansas]

I am still using 1.0.4. Did not realize there was a new release. I won't upgrade. It is annoying to have to upgrade every couple months and lose access to extensions for a few days.

[The Red Zone]

Why does the open source logo look like a cat-eye tube?

[bannie]

Yuck on euphamisms.

Misstep = Mistake

[Terpfen]

The 1.0.x series doesn't change the browser's internal version number, so all extensions written for 1.0 are compatible with all 1.0.x versions.

Now, if you download the alphas of Firefox 1.1, your extensions won't work, because its internal version is 1.0+, due to be upgraded to 1.1 for the final release.

[Northern Alliance]

You get what you pay for.

Yep. XP is worth the $5.00 I paid for it.

[adam_az]

"How can this be. I've only heard that big bad M$ makes such stupid mistakes. Is firefox Open Source? It must not be Open Source because Open Source NEVER makes such a failure."

"Give me Open Source as it never has bugs or security holes and it always easily patches. Is that a contradiction in that statement? oh well. Long live Open Source and down with the evil vile M$."

No... there's a giant strawman lurking in it, however.

[Terabitten]

will be updated for the second time in a week

I'll stick with my Firefox, thank you very much. I can't remember the last time MS released an error, found it, *admitted to it*, and corrected it within a week.

[softwarecreator]

I can't remember the last time MS released an error

Why would they release an error?

[rintense]

I am now getting slammed with spyware in Firefox. Thank goodness Spybot is catching it.

[Shazbot29]

I can't remember the last time MS released an error

Why would they release an error?

Ever hear of Windows ME?

[softwarecreator]

Ever hear of Windows ME?

Good point.

[softwarecreator]

Can't be.  What you say is heresy.  No open source product can possibly contain security leaks and coding errors.  Isn't this what they jammed down our throats, ad naseum, for years?

[Caesar Soze]

Who actually uses the 1.0.x series? Just about anything from the trunk has been much, much better for a long time now.

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