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Firefox 1.5 released

Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5:

  • Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
  • Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
  • Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
  • Improvements to popup blocking.
  • Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
  • Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
  • Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience.
  • Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
  • Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
  • Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
  • New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
  • Many security enhancements.

“Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Notes”
Mozilla via BoingBoing

The last extension still not compatible with it is SwitchProxy.

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Temporary fix (or a patch) for the Firefox/Mozilla IDN buffer overflow

“On September 6 a security vulnerability affecting all versions of Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was reported to Mozilla by Tom Ferris and on September 8th was publicly disclosed.

On September 9, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which, as a temporary measure to work around this problem, disables IDN in the browser. IDN functionality will be restored in a future product update. The fix is either a manual configuration change or a small download which will make this configuration change for the user. Instructions on administering these changes can be found below. ”

Mozilla via /.
some links added

I see I’ve already disabled IDN during the previous incident involving it, and left it disabled.

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Mozilla Firefox "Host:" Buffer Overflow

“A buffer overflow vulnerability exists within Firefox version 1.0.6 and all other prior versions which allows for an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on a affected host. […] The following HTML code below will reproduce this issue:

<A HREF=https:--------------------------------------------- >

Simple, huh? ;-]”

Security-Protocols via News.com

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Loopia ♥ Firefox

“Ruotsalainen webhotelleja tarjoava Loopia on tehnyt kovan alennustarjouksen Firefox-käyttäjille: jokainen uusi asiakas, joka käyttää Firefoxia, saa 50% alennuksen Loopialta.”

Mozilla.fi

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IBM Donates Code to Firefox

“IBM is donating DHTML […] accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) standards process [to the Mozilla Foundation]. Big Blue is also contributing code that makes it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified as well as navigated by keystrokes rather than mouse clicks. The DHTML code […] will find its way into the next major update to the Firefox browser, version 1.5, slated for release in late September.”

internetnews.com via /.

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Reading protected LiveJournal entries via RSS

“[…] if you add /rss?auth=digest to the end of the URL, and include the standard HTTP authentication at the beginning of the URL (username:password@ between the protocol and the server address), then the RSS feed will include the protected entries.”

eclecticism via P. Aston’s

This works for Thunderbird, which does support HTTP authentication for feeds, though apparently not HTTPS. You can’t view the entries this way, but at least do get the headlines.

…Except it seems to keep asking me to log in, although it does remember my id and password! That sucks.

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"Microsoft ääkkösten tiellä fi-osoitteissa"

“Kansallisia å-, ä- ja ö-merkkejä, eli tuttavallisemmin ääkkösiä, sisältäviä suomalaisia fi-verkkotunnuksia voi hakea 1.9. alkaen. […] Ohjelmistot, joilla on kansallisten verkkotunnusten tuki, kuten internet-selaimet ja sähköpostiohjelmat, tekevät muunnoksen automaattisesti selväkielisestä muodosta nimipalvelinjärjestelmien ymmärtämään ace-muotoon. Suurin ongelma on kuitenkin Microsoftin hitaus uudessa tekniikassa.

Microsoftin Internet Explorer ei vielä tue kansallisia merkkejä sisältäviä verkkotunnuksia. Sama koskee myös Outlook- ja Outlook Express -sähköpostiohjelmia. Suurin osa internetin käyttäjistä käyttää juuri näitä ohjelmia, joten tuen puute on pahin yksittäinen ongelma uusien osoitteiden tiellä. […]

Seuraavilla internet-selaimilla on Viestintäviraston mukaan kansallisia merkkejä sisältävien verkkotunnusten tuki:

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