Mozilla 1.7.5 Released

[Paul Urquhart]

Not many new features, but page rendering is improved over 1.7.3 and it
contains lots of security and bug fixes.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/

 

[Vrodok the Troll]

Not many new features, but page rendering is improved over 1.7.3 and it
contains lots of security and bug fixes.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/

Nicely done : - )

 

[jason]

Not many new features, but page rendering is improved over 1.7.3 and it
contains lots of security and bug fixes.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/

Okay so I read the 'what's new' and I'm not sure if there's a reason to
upgrade. I'm using l.5 right now, and am wondering what the 'killer
features' are that've been added since that release. The only thing I
*know* I want is for the tabbed views in Composer (Editor) to be
synchronized...which I don't think has happened yet. But I'm willing to
hear 'marketing pitches' for other features which would push hold-outs like
me to upgrade.

So anyone willing to share their experiences of some of the 'killer
features' of the newer releases, including 1.75?

 

[Paul Urquhart]

Okay so I read the 'what's new' and I'm not sure if there's a reason to
upgrade. I'm using l.5 right now, and am wondering what the 'killer
features' are that've been added since that release. The only thing I
*know* I want is for the tabbed views in Composer (Editor) to be
synchronized...which I don't think has happened yet. But I'm willing to
hear 'marketing pitches' for other features which would push hold-outs like
me to upgrade.

So anyone willing to share their experiences of some of the 'killer
features' of the newer releases, including 1.75?

If you're happy with 1.5, fine! There have been a lot of changes since
then, though, which you can read up on, here: (scroll down and read the
release notes for each)
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

IMO, The most important are the security fixes, of which there have been
dozens. You may be more vulnerable than you think.

 

[jason]

If you're happy with 1.5, fine! There have been a lot of changes
since then, though, which you can read up on, here: (scroll down and
read the release notes for each)
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

IMO, The most important are the security fixes, of which there have
been dozens. You may be more vulnerable than you think.

If it's mainly the security stuff, am I safe having installed the Mozilla
security patch? Or are there issues beyond that?

 

[Paul Urquhart]

If it's mainly the security stuff, am I safe having installed the Mozilla
security patch? Or are there issues beyond that?

I'm not sure which security patch you're referring to - the small one
last summer? That only corrected one problem. Mozilla doesn't talk
about security problems too much; they just fix them with the next
release. 1.7.5 contains "quite a few" security problems which were
found and fixed since 1.7.3 was released in September.

 

[JoeA]

Not many new features, but page rendering is improved over 1.7.3 and it
contains lots of security and bug fixes.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/

or you may prefer 1.8 alpha5

 

[jmatt]

or you may prefer 1.8 alpha5

More info here .

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8a5/

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If you're happy with 1.5, fine! There have been a lot of changes
since then, though, which you can read up on, here: (scroll down
and read the release notes for each)
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

IMO, The most important are the security fixes, of which there
have been dozens. You may be more vulnerable than you think.

Thanks for pointing to the release notes. From the POV of mozilla.org,
the main thing about this release (and its timing) is that the current
versions, Mozilla 1.7.5 and Firefox 1.0, are now Gecko-equivalent. But
it looks like a lot of bugfixes come along with that 1.7.5.