Firefox 0.9 final - Time to consider Mozilla

[aww]

Firefox 0.9.2 final - time to consider Mozilla

(updated for 0.9 -> 0.9.1 -> 0.9.2)

Fresh out this morning:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.2/

also see upgrade info/tips

release notes

 

[aww]

FireFox 0.9.1 update released

Minor update to FireFox 0.9.1 a few days ago.
Apparently you can install this right over 0.9.0 with no problems:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.1/

What's New in Firefox 0.9.1
* - Extension Manager
* - Theme Manager
* - Data Migration/Import
* - New Visual Theme
* - Better Bookmarks
* - Better Search
* - Smaller Download
* - Online Help

 

[Dr.Pepper]

Can you use IE tool bars on firefox? Like google and alexa?

 

[suthra]

i think you have that option with those extensions

That switch proxy stuff isssss excellent in firefox.
In ie, for each of these we got to pay and get.
1)Adblocker
2)flash blocker(nothing blocks a flash except ie ad killer from softcows.com)
3)proxy/anonymous surfing

In firefox all these are freeeee :D

 

[Scott]

Originally posted by suthra
i think you have that option with those extensions

That switch proxy stuff isssss excellent in firefox.
In ie, for each of these we got to pay and get.
1)Adblocker
2)flash blocker(nothing blocks a flash except ie ad killer from softcows.com)
3)proxy/anonymous surfing

In firefox all these are freeeee :D

Flash blocker? Can't you just .. not install flash in the first place?

 

[aww]

Originally posted by domainresellbiz
I just hate we can not add a google and / or alexa toolbar to firefox, other than that it is great!

Um, have you seen the googlebar for mozilla/firefox?

You can even grab PR now using this extension

Originally posted by qxh
Flash blocker? Can't you just .. not install flash in the first place?

Sometimes you want to see selected Flash animations but you don't want to be hit over the head with Flash ads and other abuses.

That's why you can install flash, and then install the flash blocker for mozilla/firefox and you get little icon placeholders that you can click if you want it to start playing. This is incredibly handy!

 

[Matt]

*thunbs up for FireFox*

 

[BLazeD]

Thanks guys

I tried this a while ago, gonna try it again! :D

 

[suthra]

Rightly said by avalon, and it also saves some amount of bandwidth.

 

[painperdu]

I used Netscape 4.7 till the web didn't like it anymore and was *forced* to use IE.

Now there's Firefox!!!

 

[suthra]

Netscape sucks

 

[aww]

By the way, Mozilla/FireFox helps keep your privacy alot easier than IE - stop showing where you are coming from (which can have usernames, etc in the URL) by turning off referers:

enter about:config (no spaces) into address bar
filter for referer
change network.http.sendRefererHeader value to 0 (zero)

Also for some sites that try to force certain browsers or you wanna see how they change their content for IE vs Mozilla try out this handy extension:
User Agent Switcher for Mozilla/FireFox

 

[Professer]

Originally posted by aww
By the way, Mozilla/FireFox helps keep your privacy alot easier than IE - stop showing where you are coming from (which can have usernames, etc in the URL) by turning off referers:

enter about:config into address bar
filter for referer
change network.http.sendRefererHeader value to 0 (zero)

Great tip, aww. I'd like it even better if I could figure out how to implement it!

After clicking the about:config command in the address bar, what do you mean by the next instruction, "filter for referer"? I can't find anything about filters or referers in the Firefox help menu.

 

[Scott]

Tom, type about:config into the address bar. (weird .. it puts a space into it, it's about:config without a space between : and config).

 

[Professer]

Thanks, Scott. I figured out the space problem in the config command earlier. After clicking the command in the address bar, what happens next with the list that appears?

==> Never mind, now I found it. D'OH (slaps forehead). I've never seen the "filter" bar in Mozilla before! Got it.

Heh. Now that we're at the bar, order us both another one. This one's on me.

 

[suthra]

Woww, Thatz a cool tip aww.

Thanks for this.

 

[aww]

Ah sorry about the space issue with "about:config" I did not realize the board was adding a space in there, wierdness!

 

[Professer]

0.91 installed over 0.9 with no problems. That's a very nice improvement over earlier versions.

No problem with the added space, aww. I figured it out with only minor frustration.

 

[aww]

Well there was a serious change in the config system from 0.8 to 0.9 but from what I have read it should stay the same to 1.0 (hopefully).

 

[Professer]

Yep, upgrading from 0.8 to .9 was a real pain.

 

[aww]

FireFox users, you need to upgrade to 0.9.2 as soon as possible as there is a shell access security hole that needs to be patched:
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=131090,00.asp

links in a Web page using the "shell:" scheme can execute arbitrary programs on the user's system. The attacker would have to know the location in the file system of the program, but there are known programs in Windows with buffer overflows.

This means the attacker could create a link in a Web page that could execute arbitrary code under Windows. Through the use of an appropriate META tag, the attack could load without the user having to click a link explicitly.

In the definition of a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), the technical name for a Web address, "shell:" is not a protocol like http but a scheme. Some schemes map directly to protocol handlers in the browser itself or externally, such as those that handle audio and video media.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.2/