Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0.7

Brian Ambrozy 21 Sep, 2005 at 6:22pm ET Article published in Tech

Mozilla released version 1.0.7 of their flagship browser today.

Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7

* Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
* Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
* Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an “eval” statement
* Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors

Submitted by: muddocktor

Source: Mozilla.org

Comments

22 Sep 2005 ~ 12:12am djstubbs Using now :]
22 Sep 2005 ~ 2:57pm CB Is this going to address 1.0.6's apparent inability to block pop-ups? It's been getting worse.
22 Sep 2005 ~ 3:01pm profdlp

CBDroege wrote:

Is this going to address 1.0.6's apparent inability to block pop-ups? It's been getting worse.

I just started using it a month or so ago, but the popup stopper has been great for me.
22 Sep 2005 ~ 3:17pm Trogan Its true that 1.6 didn't block pop-ups very well
22 Sep 2005 ~ 3:21pm profdlp Then how come I've been so lucky?

BTW: Why doesn't my version update when I run the "Check Now" thingy?
22 Sep 2005 ~ 3:32pm djstubbs

profdlp wrote:

I just started using it a month or so ago, but the popup stopper has been great for me.

websites like webshots still give me popups.
22 Sep 2005 ~ 4:29pm CB The only ones that get through to me are the ones from 'tribalfusion' ad network...

Usually on my daily visit to comics.com, but they show up in other places, as well... always from 'tribalfusion'.