Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 ReleasedSunday December 24th, 2006Security and Stability updates for Mozilla products based on the Gecko 1.8.0 branch have been released. Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2. For more information, refer to the Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9 Release Notes and the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 release notes. > All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2 Does the Auto Updater prompt the user to install 2.0.* now? it won't allow you to download 2.0 directly. you will have to download the installer manually. i read that it should prompt you about the new version, but i didn't see it myself. Does anyone know the update strategy for 1.5.xx users? will there be an update for 2.0.x or do i have to tell everyone who is running 1.5 to update to 2.0? When will this update be issued? now? when 1.5 is EOL (07/04/24)? some other date? never? Is there some kind of official statement from Mozilla? Asa says: We're not going to automatically update every Firefox 1.5 user to 2. Automatic update is for security and stability releases and this is not a security and stability release. We will use our update mechanism to alert 1.5 users of the new Firefox 2 browser and offer a download and install through our update system, but it will not be like our security and stability updates where you are essentially forced to upgrade because previous versions have known security flaws. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/10/firefox_2_milli.html > All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2. That doesn't make sense in an article about 1.5.0.x updates. It does, if you think about it. What they're saying is, 1.5.0.9 is what you need if you insist on sticking with 1.5x, but you would be better off by moving up to 2.x. MoCo can't decide for you if 2.0 is better for you. Of course they can't. That's why they encourage the upgrade rather than insist upon it. Actually, many of us will eventually migrate from 1.5.x to 2.0.x, but are NOT YET ready to experiment with the learning curve, and may not yet have all of our favorite extensions converted over yet. Very few things more annoying than losing extensions when you upgrade, or not finding you favorite feature (even though it may be there, but access differently). I will move in the next month or two probably; ...but am waiting for the dust to settle first, so to speak. Now the Tbird link at the top is TWO releases behind the current one. They've now updated the links to the latest versions. Maybe they could remove the version numbers and link to the latest release pages such as http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ to avoid this problem in the future. I don't really want to upgrade 1.5 to 2.0 because I don't like the new tab interface as much. For me, the close buttons on every tab waste valuable space, and I find that it is harder visually to tell which tab is on top. You can change the value of browser.tabs.closeButtons in about:config to go back to the single close button at the right of the tab bar. The values are 0 - close button on the active tab only. 1 - close button on all tabs (default) 2 - no close buttons 3 - single close button at the right of the tab bar. You'll probably want to set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton as well to get rid of the useless "go" button and add something like .tabs-alltabs-button { display: none !important; } to userChrome.css to get rid of the tab list button so you don't keep hitting it when trying to close tabs. These changes fix most of the worst mistakes in the 2.0 tab interface and make it as usable as 1.x Is anyone else having a freeze-up problem with 2.0.0.1? I've been using Mozilla since Firebird and this is the worst release I've seen for lock-ups. I'm back to IE based browsers for the nonce. Is anyone else having a freeze-up problem with 2.0.0.1? I've been using Mozilla since Firebird and this is the worst release I've seen for lock-ups. I'm back to IE based browsers for the nonce. Not a single one. Also been using Firefox for a long time (0.93, was it?) and never had an issue. This is not the exception in my case. Have you tried running Fx in safe mode? I have also been using Thunderbird and Firefox for 3 or 4 years now (it seems) and have never had a problem until the last few weeks. I hadn't reloaded XP for almost a year, and things were getting 'messy', so I decided to start clean again. I installed registered XP Pro and downloaded the latest Thunderbird and Firefox. I had copied off my profiles from TB and saved them to my external drive. After installing TB, I copied over my profile from before. This was the first week or so of January. After this, my computer would 'lock up' when I tried clicking on an HTML link in an email and expect it to open a page in Firefox. I thought I had done something wrong with Windows or some installation, so, before I installed a bunch of applications, I decided to start over. I installed XP the 2nd time (on a newly formatted disk) and I am still having the same problem. The problem even seems to happen when I make IE7 my default browser, but eventually, the page comes up. With Firefox as the default, I usually have to reboot to unfreeze Thunderbird. Is there any way we can get the next oldest version of TB and try it and see if it works okay just to prove that it isn't my machine? Firefox and IE7 work fine when I'm just browsing within them and not trying to go to a link from within an email. Thanks, Steve |