Posted on 07/18/2005 8:45:23 PM PDT by N3WBI3
The open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week because of code changes that have unintentionally stopped some third-party extensions from functioning correctly.
The updates will take Firefox and Thunderbird to version 1.0.6, while the Mozilla Suite will be updated to version 1.7.10, wrote representatives from the Mozilla Foundation on the group's developer news blog. Mozilla oversees the software's development.
It appears security fixes in last week's 1.0.5 update caused the problems.
"There is a very real chance that some of the general security improvements in last week's 1.0.5 update may impact a number of extensions that worked with 1.0.4 and earlier, and we want to identify and address as many of these as possible before we release 1.0.6," the representatives said.
Because of the impending update, the Mozilla Foundation has asked developers to temporarily halt work on localizing the software for non-English language markets, a move that has drawn criticism from some adherents.
"We are getting lots of e-mails from Firefox users in Poland asking us about why isn't Firefox 1.0.5 available in Polish," wrote one developer in the localization newsgroup.
"A few days more, and it's gonna be a big public relations disaster for Firefox outside the U.S.A.," the developer added.
Another developer attacked the foundation in its bug-reporting forum.
"Tens of millions of users are still using 1.0.4 while critical security bugs are already published after en-US (U.S. English) 1.0.5 release," the developer wrote.
Calling for the foundation to release its software in all supported languages simultaneously, the developer said that by delaying the foreign language versions, Mozilla was wasting the work done by developers promoting the foundation's brands in local markets.
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"Extensions that interact with Web content and events may be the most susceptible to these changes," the foundation representatives wrote. "Mail-handling extensions such as (secure e-mail extension) Enigmail for Thunderbird and the Mozilla Suite should also be tested heavily."
A Mozilla Foundation representative was not immediately available to comment on the changes.
Renai LeMay of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney
Perhaps. But it still beats IE.
MSbots are the only ones who ever say that. Open source advocates have never claimed their software is perfect, or that it ever can be perfect -- if perfect software is possible, then there's no reason to release its source.You can just write it once and sell it for billions of dollars.
All this, "But you guys said its perfcet lolz!!!" is a particularly annoying form of "advocacy," and belongs in the appropriate Usenet groups (comp.os.*.advocacy), not forums where adults try to have conversations.
Not true, "LinuxClones©" that I meet in person have made this claim. Linux can be as spotty and unsafe as MS if it had MS's marketshare and had thousands of hackers slamming at it 24 hours a day.
i immediately downloaded the upgrade and installed it last week when it was announced here.
one difference between this version of firefox and the previous that i notice is:
when i reply to a post and hit enter, the freerepublic light blue screen and message boxes collapse to the left into a narrow rectangle, but recover to the original size. happens every time. did not occur before the new installation.
At our company, Firefox is recommended for all non-corporate browser apps, mainly due to Domino. So, we use IE for work, and Firefox for anything else.
for-q-clinton wow thats a great origional post? every time I post a flaw up somebody jumps in with "but opensource people say its perfect" tell ya what spunky, find a post where someone said Opensource is perfect!
Example?
Or every couple of days . . .
Don't get out much, do you? Pull up any anti MS thread on FR, and it's riddled with the very thing you claim has never happened. Geez louise. Blackbird.
The complaint is about mistakes, it's about MS taking months to fix them or to notify its customers.
Well, yes...and sometimes you pay for feature bloat, an enormous memory and hard drive footprint, and Bill Gates's latest philanthropy project.
Come on, be serious, you know that is exactly the attitude that the Linux lemmings have. I am not talking about the average Linux advocate, I am talking about the totally obsessed ones. One place I did work for had one of these guys and he would become totally unglued if you even dared to compare Linux to MS {spit}.
See but thats not my experience, and all Im asking you to do is search FR before you make claims about what "Linux Guys say". I have never seen anyone here say it was, is or ever will be perfect! but I have seen dozens of times (hell four on this thread) people say thats what the OSS community says.
There definitely is a component of that in the Linux (Peace be upon it) community.
Believe it or not, there is life off of this forum and I have met quite a few with that attitude.
And yes, I also have spoken to people on FR who do have this opinion too.
And I have met folks who think every Linux user is a commie who hates America but I dont puke it out on every thread that has something to do with Microsoft? The times I do mention it its targeted to specific people...
And yes, I also have spoken to people on FR who do have this opinion too.
and who were they?
All OS's have good and bad features to them. Which one a person uses is up to them. I am a pretty heavy MS proponent but I recognize the value of Linux and am slowly migrating to it. If MS decides to do the "leasing of OS" plans I have heard about, I will probably leave MS forever because I do NOT believe in renting an OS for a certain period of time and then re-register.
I invite you to inspect the collected works of Bush2000 and GoldenEagle.
And then you will be enlightened, grasshopper.
Why?
Technical reasons aside (and there are plenty of them), why give Bill Gates more money to pay for forced abortions and sterilizations?
Why give Bill Gates more money to persue his anti-2nd Amendment donations?
People on this board have jumped on boycott bandwagons for far less. Apparently William H. Gates III and his merry men are somehow exempt.
George Soros isn't, but Billy Gates, whose company sold its source code (the same code that you and I aren't worthy to see) to Communist China, is A-OK with far too many Freepers.
Why?
This is a conservative site. Bill Gates is no conservative. Neither is Steve Ballmer. The Microsoft Corporation invests money in communist and leftist causes. Aren't we supposed to care about that?
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