Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released

KrayzieKyd writes "God Bless Mozilla. Firefox has just notified me that Firefox version 1.5.0.4 has just been released with release notes and according to Mozilla's website, the same has been released for Thunderbird with its own release notes."

Seamonkey also updated

[darteaga]

Seamonkey, the new version of the old mozilla suite (Netscape-like) has also been updated. The release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases /seamonkey1.0.2/ [mozilla.org].

Re:Will it stop crashing?

[OffTheLip]

Not so much crashing but 1.5 seems slower. Especially noticeable with several (or many) tabs open. Systems I've noticed this on were not low end either. And OS did not matter, Windows XP, RHEL and Fedora all were sluggish. Seems like 1.0.7 offered a better all around browser experience.

Re:Incremental Updates

[fondacio]

In that case, you were updating a version lower than 1.5.0.3. If there is no incremental patch, the updater reverts to downloading and executing the full installer. I just updated 1.5.0.3, and the file it downloaded was quite small. Incidentally, Mozilla Thunderbird has also been updated to 1.5.0.4.

Show the world and be taken seriously!

[MindPrison]

I think it's excellent with all these updates. Firefox if absolutely worth the attention.

Before Firefox - our local banking etc. where only accepted on Internet Explorer and nothing else, leaving out Mac and Linux users. Today Firefox is so respected that our country's Largest Bank support it!

Way to go FIREFOX!.

Re:thats it?

[aussie_a]

I used Opera 8 for several months and found it to be slower and broken on more sites then Firefox.

Re:Incremental Updates

[digital-hell-native]

The update worked fine for me and only took a second. There are some issues that may lead to incremental update failure. In that case, Firefox will simply re-download the full version. Probably what happened to you.

Re:Is this intereseting?

[taskforce]

Actually Opera does outline security issues which were fixed in each new incremental version: Opera Changelogs [opera.com]

Re:Will it stop crashing?

[root_42]

This is known and actually a feature, which can be turned off:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749 .html [mozillazine.org]

Re:Mozilla bug database is a joke

[NutscrapeSucks]

Hate to break it to you, but he's right and the Grade A moron here is you. Mozilla does lock their security bugs so only the privledged few can see them:

Go here and click just try to click through to bugzilla from the issues:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vul nerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.4 [mozilla.org]

Thunderbird now in mac universal binary

[anticypher]

Just tested with the newest macintel universal binary, and it is significantly faster than 1.5.0.2 (which also claimed universal binary, but they fucked up).

If you let software update happen on a mac intel, it doesn't update to 1.5.0.4 universal, but just updates the PPC image. You need to download the new universal image, and install that over the older version, and then it runs.

They still haven't addressed all the networking problems yet, but I really don't ever expect them to.

the AC

Re:Incremental Updates

[masklinn]

My FF 1.5.0.3 downloaded a mere 600k, and Thunderbird's update to 1.5.0.4 was roughtly the same size (~500k).

Your FF probably failed a hash check or something and downloaded everything to reinstall from scratch, that's the fallback when the updater doesn't manager to install incremental updates.

Re:SeaMonkey for Security

[bunratty]

Anyone wanting to stick with the Mozilla Suite should upgrade to SeaMonkey soon for security updates. SeaMonkey gets all the core security fixes Firefox and Thunderbird do, but the old Suite isn't being developed any more and therefore won't get any security fixes.

Re:SeaMonkey!!!!

[bunratty]

Q: I have Mozilla 1.7.13. What am I supposed to upgrade to!?!?!
A: SeaMonkey!!!! [mozilla.org]

It not only fails validation but also....

[burnttoy]

But, as I've brought up with them before, the site is full of wasted space. I even wrote them a tool to remove all that guff but was told (about 6 months ago) that they were working on the problem.

I only noticed it when I was parsing the thing for an new aggregator and found a big input file to output file sise diff. The XML parser was set to discard pointless whitespace.

Validator... http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnew s.bbc.co.uk%2F [w3.org]

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Re:Incremental Updates

[argStyopa]

Firefox 1.5.0.3 to 1.5.0.4 = 511kb on my Win98 box.

Firefox is so slow

[Anonymous Coward]

I use Firefox as my primary browser except when test for compatibility web app (I am a developer). Recently, I tried mozilla 1.4 and netscape 7.2 on our app because some @#$%@ still run them and have problem. I was very surpised to find out that these browser is several times faster showing up same webpages than Firefox. It's not only noticable, but it could be said that it's many times faster, not just faster. I know that Firefox support alot more. However, with this speed, I think it's definitely possible to be way faster, and support more. If to support more and it's slower, something wrong with the design that does not scale well. This is almost a shock to me. I have been using Firefox for so long that I couldn't think it would be slower than it's predessor. I always think it's problem the same or faster.

Re:Are we at the mercy of the update gods?

[NalosLayor]

Help->Check For Updates

Re:Firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

Blame MS not Firefox for that.

Re:Freshmeat?

[lpcustom]

Ok, to be fair I opened IE6....launched two new windows.....opened up my three sites.....now the one iexplore.exe process is 63 meg. ...Is that fair enough....it's still double the RAM

Re:Incremental Updates

[dveditz]

It would, indeed, be nice if we had partial patches more than one version back. We simply don't have the capacity to do so and ship timely releases. We're already juggling 3 platforms (4 while we transition from Mac PPC to Mac Universal Binary releases) times around 40 languages times 2 update packages (full and partial). Adding even one version back means another 120 update paths to build and test and ask our mirror sites to host.

For what? Anyone with automatic updates turned on is at most one version back--they've had several weeks of daily update checks to get them there--so we're talking about people who have updates turned off and one random day decide to hit the "Check for Updates" button. It's not worth burning our people out and adding to our mirroring burden to optimize the experience of a very small number of people.

Re:1.5.0.4 is major.significant.minor.forget-it

[dveditz]

Our intention is to never ship a 1.5.1.x, if we do it means there was some security issue we couldn't fix without breaking extensions (as happened in 1.0.3). With this scheme extensions can claim compatibility into the future (1.5.0.*) and we can warn the user about potentially incompatible extensions before they update.

If it helps, think of it as version "1.5.04" -- the extra decimal is for internal use.