New Firefox Release

http://secunia.com/advisories/19873/ is the biggest reason to upgrade to 1.5.0.5.

Firefox 1.5.0.5 officially released!

~79 bugfixes in this version. (26 crashers, 18 regressions, 1 memory leak and 12 security fixes)

Download
- http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html

Release Notes
- http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5.html

Bug Fix List
- http://tinyurl.com/o5oam

Secutiy Fixes
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.5

Other Notable Fixes
- History of Firefox is lost frequently without crash.
- accents incorrectly encoded / decoded
- Firefox 1.5.0.2 doesn't work with some online banking systems
- Basic auth fails with XMLHttpRequest
- enable compatible extensions on downgrade
- 7% Tdhtml regression
- Java applet fails to load

Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 scheduled for release on Tuesday 8th August 2006, with new default theme, new Options UI, more tabbed browsing improvements, faster session-saver and spell-checking code and a bunch of other stuff.


btw, just because there are files populated on release.mozilla.org, doesn't mean the new release is out. something could still happen to make those files get changed to newer builds. best to wait until http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html has been updated. release notes typically go up a day or two before release.

as noted on the website. its available tomorrow, not today

I've been using Beta 2.0 for a couple weeks without any major incident. About 1 out of every 20 or 25 attempts to start the program, it'll start but the window won't appear. I have to go to task manager and end the firefox.exe task. The program always appears on the next attempt, and I can't reproduce it.

Oh well.

Uninstall previous version or do I just install over it?

Yay, broken extensions for everyone!

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