Firefox 1.5.0.1

[* * Chas]

Friday Feb 3, 12:00AM PST

I just received a popup saying Firefox 1.5.0.1 is now available and
recommending that I upgrade ASAP.

Has anyone else seen this?

Chas.

 

[Todd H.]

Friday Feb 3, 12:00AM PST

I just received a popup saying Firefox 1.5.0.1 is now available and
recommending that I upgrade ASAP.

Has anyone else seen this?

Yeah. I was in th emiddle of something though and haven't yet done
it.

 

[Echy]

Friday Feb 3, 12:00AM PST

I just received a popup saying Firefox 1.5.0.1 is now available and
recommending that I upgrade ASAP.

Has anyone else seen this?

Chas.

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I also received it and have installed it without incident. All
bookmarks, extensions etc intact.

Echy
Melbourne Australia
About Melbourne: www.thatsmelbourne.com.au
About Commonwealth Games Melbourne: www.melbourne2006.com.au

 

[Offbreed]

I also received it and have installed it without incident. All
bookmarks, extensions etc intact.

Same. No sweat.

 

[AlanG]

Friday Feb 3, 12:00AM PST

I just received a popup saying Firefox 1.5.0.1 is now available and
recommending that I upgrade ASAP.

Has anyone else seen this?

I updated on Wednesday with no problem. Security Fix discussed it yesterday
(an excellent regular Post column, BTW).....

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/

 

[BabyJane Hudson]

Is Firefox better than IE, Netscape, or Slimbrowser?

Thanks,
JAne

 

[Echy]

Is Firefox better than IE, Netscape, or Slimbrowser?

Thanks,
JAne

Yes

 

[Todd H.]

Is Firefox better than IE,

Safer to use than ie thanks to no activeX junk.

Netscape,

Netscape is a firefox derivative with their ad tie ins and crap. May
as well go with the original.

or Slimbrowser?

Not familiar.

The only one that competes with Firefox in my opinion is Opera.

 

[Robert Moir]

Is Firefox better than IE, Netscape, or Slimbrowser?

Matter of opinion. Many people's opinion is that it is safer than IE. While
it doesn't suffer from the same problems as IE, it suffers from its own, so
it isn't a panacea.

Netscape is based on the FireFox core, but has a lot more "extras". Some
people call those extras "bloat" and dislike them. Other people use the
extras so have a much milder opinion.

I use FireFox simply because its a much better web browser than IE, at least
in my opinion.

Try it and see what your opinion is!

--
--
Rob Moir, MS MVP
Blog Site - http://www.robertmoir.com
Virtual PC 2004 FAQ - http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html
I'm always surprised at "professionals" who STILL have to be asked "Have you
checked (event viewer / syslog)".

 

[Offbreed]

Netscape is based on the FireFox core,

I think it's the other way around. Netscape released one of it's
versions of the Netscape browser/email/newsreader during their dustup
with MS, and Mozilla was derived from that.

 

[James E. Morrow]

Matter of opinion. Many people's opinion is that it is safer than IE. While
it doesn't suffer from the same problems as IE, it suffers from its own, so
it isn't a panacea.

Netscape is based on the FireFox core, but has a lot more "extras". Some
people call those extras "bloat" and dislike them. Other people use the
extras so have a much milder opinion.

I use FireFox simply because its a much better web browser than IE, at least
in my opinion.

Try it and see what your opinion is!

Another alternative would be the new Seamonkey, formerly Mozilla Suite.
I find the integration of browser and email client to be better.
Seamonkey has all the bells and whistles in one package. And the
Mozilla Gecko based browsers are kept up to date in terms of security
much prompter than Microsoft's IE.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

 

[Todd H.]

I think it's the other way around. Netscape released one of it's
versions of the Netscape browser/email/newsreader during their dustup
with MS, and Mozilla was derived from that.

Actually, it's both ways.

Netscape (in the 4.x days) opened up their code base, the Mozilla
project was born to produce the next generation browser, and went on
to produce Mozilla Suite, which was then spun into Netscape 6 and 7
version.

Now, Mozilla Firefox would be your purest most unadorned non-corporate
version, and Netscape layers add-ins and marketing tie ins on top of
those.

Best Regards,

 

[kurt wismer]

I think it's the other way around. Netscape released one of it's
versions of the Netscape browser/email/newsreader during their dustup
with MS, and Mozilla was derived from that.

you think wrong - the internal name of the product was *always* mozilla,
right from the beginning of netscape...

in the years that followed the 4.x version, netscape was acquired by
aol, they decided to rewrite their engine and they released the code
under an open source license while aol continued to pay the bills with
the understanding that from time to time aol would be able to take a
copy of a recent stable version and brand it aol/netscape and release it
as such...

then aol decided to stop funding the development directly and instead
gave the principals a nice little endowment with which they started up
the mozilla foundation...

 

[kurt wismer]

James E. Morrow wrote:
[snip]

Another alternative would be the new Seamonkey, formerly Mozilla Suite.
I find the integration of browser and email client to be better.
Seamonkey has all the bells and whistles in one package. And the
Mozilla Gecko based browsers are kept up to date in terms of security
much prompter than Microsoft's IE.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

that is another alternative, however, even before the final curtain call
for mozilla suite, so much of the community had shifted it's attention
to firefox that the mozilla browser was getting second-class citizen
treatment... extension developers no longer cared about compatibility
with mozilla suite and many of the new extensions that were coming out
just plain wouldn't work in mozilla...

i don't know if this still holds true for seamonkey, but it's a
significant consideration for people choosing between the two...

 

[Offbreed]

then aol decided to stop funding the development directly and instead
gave the principals a nice little endowment with which they started up
the mozilla foundation...

Well, it sounds like I should sneer at AOL a little less.

 

[Jonathan Wilson]

What happened was that Netscape released some code way back when which was
basicly Netscape 4.x (UGH) minus all the bits they were unable to release
at the time (bits they didnt own, the encryption bits etc).

Then, the mozilla team made improvements to that (with people from Netscape
being paid to work on it).
Firefox was derived from that at some point too.
Several browser labeled "netscape" were pulled from that too.
The latest browser labeled "netscape" is basicly taken from the firefox
tree and modified.

 

[* * Chas]

Matter of opinion. Many people's opinion is that it is safer than IE. While
it doesn't suffer from the same problems as IE, it suffers from its own, so
it isn't a panacea.

Netscape is based on the FireFox core, but has a lot more "extras". Some
people call those extras "bloat" and dislike them. Other people use the
extras so have a much milder opinion.

I use FireFox simply because its a much better web browser than IE, at least
in my opinion.

Try it and see what your opinion is!

--
--
Rob Moir, MS MVP
Blog Site - http://www.robertmoir.com
Virtual PC 2004 FAQ - http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html
I'm always surprised at "professionals" who STILL have to be asked "Have you
checked (event viewer / syslog)".

Firefox 1.5.0.1 seems to load a little faster than 1.5 which was much
faster than previous versions.

I'm a manufacturing engineer/consultant and I use the web for a lot of
technical research. I use Firefox for searching. Many technical searches
for engineering or metallurgical questions take me to sites located in
Eastern Europe or Russia. I hit at least 1 or 2 malware infested sites
or links a week. Firefox seems pretty immune to these bastards.
Frequently I have to revert to IE to access web content at many sites
that were poorly designed for IE only.

I'm running behind a hardware firewall and practice safe hex. NOD32
flags a lot of the attempted malware attacks that I run across plus I
run scans with other products at least once a week.

Chas.

 

[Big Rich Soprano]

Is Firefox better than IE, Netscape, or Slimbrowser?


I use Opera as a main browser but FF is gaining ground...

 

[comajorr]

Yeah. I was in th emiddle of something though and haven't yet done
it.

Yes, it's firefox's new auto-update feature.

 

[comajorr]

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I also received it and have installed it without incident. All
bookmarks, extensions etc intact.

Echy
Melbourne Australia
About Melbourne: www.thatsmelbourne.com.au
About Commonwealth Games Melbourne: www.melbourne2006.com.au

It's firefox's new auto-update feature.