“Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 provides stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safer email experience for our users. We recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest version.
Here’s what’s new in Thunderbird 1.5:
- Improvements to product stability.
- Several security fixes.
The Rumbling Edge has a more detailed list of notable bug fixes.”
Mozilla via Juha
What's New in Firefox 1.5.0.2
“Firefox 1.5.0.2 provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors, and stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safer Internet experience for our users. We recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest version.”
Mozilla
some links added
Undoclosetab, one of my most-used extensions, stopped working with this update, but a simple tweak from the mozillaZine forum made it work.
A Flickr Set of Firefox 2.0a1 Screenshots
Looks like I’ll no longer need TabX when Firefox reaches 2.0.
Download YouTube videos with GreaseMonkey
“One of the frustrating things about websites that use Flash video is that they rarely provide links to let you download the video files for offline viewing […]. I decided to dive into Greasemonkey and create a couple scripts to expose download links on Google Video and YouTube webpages […].”
Songbird
“Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox‘s browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.”
Firefox 1.5.0.1 released
“Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5.0.1:
- Improved stability.
- Improved support for Mac OS X.
- International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled.
- Fixes for several memory leaks.
- Several security enhancements.
The Burning Edge has more detailed lists of notable bug fixes.”
Thunderbird 'Feed Url' field context menu missing 'Paste'
I hope the problem of having no ‘Paste Link Location’ in the context menu of Feed Url insertion will be fixed. I seem to be bumping into it constantly.
(Yes, this is just a road sign for my own future googling of the title.)
Thunderbird 1.5 Released
Here’s what’s new in Thunderbird 1.5:
- Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
- Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient.
- Spell check as you type.
- Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts.
- Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
- Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
- Deleting attachments from messages.
- Integration with server side spam filtering.
- Reply and forward actions for message filters.
- Kerberos Authentication.
- Auto save as draft for mail composition.
- Message aging.
- Filters for Global Inbox.
- Improvements to product usability including redesigned options interface, and SMTP server management.
- Many security enhancements.
“Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Release Notes”
Mozilla via BlogsNow
“If you are using RC2, then you already have 1.5 final.”
Damn. This means my problems with the hanging Thunderbird process will continue.
Signature Switch on addons.mozilla.org is still at non- 1.5 compatible 0.9.4 for some reason even though 1.5 compatible 1.0.1 is available from the author.
SwitchProxy for Firefox 1.5
Just installed Phil Randal’s Firefox 1.5 compatible version of SwitchProxy, the link to which was on the SwitchProxy forum. Seems to be working just fine!
Firefox 1.5 buffer overflow
“Basically firefox logs all kinda of URL data in it’s history.dat file, this little script will set a really large topic and Firefox will then save that topic into it’s history.dat.. The next time that firefox is opened, it will instantly crash due to a buffer overflow — this will happen everytime until you manually delete the history.dat file — which most users won’t figure out.
this proof of concept will only prevent someone from reopening their browser after being exploited. DoS if you will. however, code execution is possible with some modifcations.”
packet storm via Juha