Firefox 1.0.1 Released

homeobocks writes "Firefox 1.0.1 has been officially released by the Mozilla Foundation, with some important security fixes. An announcement and release notes are available." Presumably this fixes the window injection vulnerabilities.

How does this get posted instead of...

[astyanax]

the breaking news about Mandrake acquiring Connectiva??

Re:/. rendering

[bunratty]

Firefox 1.0.1 is supposed to have only security and stability fixes. Unless an unstable engineer feels insecure about Slashdot fans complaining about the Slashdot bug, I don't think it'll be fixed until Firefox 1.1.

Whew!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's about time they fixed those security issues. I was getting tired of using Internet Explore in the meantime.

Security Fix

[krikat]

Does the security fix remove internet explorer?

This version doesnt fix some new type of popups

[Anonymous Coward]

Try this site: It shows a sarcastic popup saying "your browser has successfully blocked a popup!" http://www.indianmasala.com/
How insulting!

How can I find out?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder what version I'm using?

Re:What's Firefox?

[ICA]

Wow, I'm guessing this was an attempt to be funny, but it missed so badly I had a hard time figuring out what it was trying to say. Thanks for the useful post.

Re:What's Firefox?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks. I thought it was just me there that couldn't make any sense of this... Perhaps he's just confused, but IE does that to people, can't blame him.

Re:/. rendering

[gstoddart]

Unless an unstable engineer feels insecure about Slashdot fans complaining about the Slashdot bug

Some of those self-same Slashdot fans are unstable engineers.

Awesome news!

[realmolo]

I'm gonna read about it tomorrow on Slashdot! Or maybe even later tonight!

Firefox sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

Firefox Sucks!
It's so slow to load. Much slower than IE.
It doesn't even render pages properly. IE has always been perfect.
What's this about Firefox vulnerabilities? IE with SP2 is much safer.

Who uses Firefox? Only Linux zealots, hippies, and Mac users.

Real computer users use IE. Us real computer users that actually have jobs will not deal with third-class software like Firefox.

The moderating system did not hinder me from posting this.
-Computer Expert.

Re:This version doesnt fix some new type of popups

[mcc]

That's, um, not exactly a popup. That's a picture of a windows popup, in the webpage itself.

Somehow the illusion is less convincing when you use a Macintosh and you find yourself looking at a Windows XP window border...

Re:Pop-ups on Drudge

[Anonymous Coward]

You admit you look at that site? You should have your ID taken away.

Re:How does this get posted instead of...

[NiceGeek]

You're new here aren't you? (See...another terrible joke)

Re:How does this get posted instead of...

[YU Nicks NE Way]

In Soviet Russia, you aren't new here, are you?

Re:How does this get posted instead of...

[Anonymous Coward]

Profit!

Re:Firefox sucks

[billmustdie]

by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24, @10:35PM (#11773968) Firefox Sucks! It's so slow to load. Much slower than IE. It doesn't even render pages properly. IE has always been perfect. What's this about Firefox vulnerabilities? IE with SP2 is much safer. Who uses Firefox? Only Linux zealots, hippies, and Mac users. Real computer users use IE. Us real computer users that actually have jobs will not deal with third-class software like Firefox. The moderating system did not hinder me from posting this. -Computer Expert.

Rofl
Who comes up with this stuff?

Spoiler

[CowsAnonymous]

Just so you know, if you're going to reinstall from scratch, I already read the EULA and no; there's no $1000 prize.

Since when did the links....

[tod_miller]

...Make us download the files from the same place as the unwashed masses? Man, go back to linking to rough and ready nightly CVS snapshots ok! :-) ;-)

Congrats FF peeps, I hope the popup blocking works now... will install at work, fusk that pute first, then try at home. :D heheh :D have a good day everyone.