Feb 24 2005

Firefox 1.0.1

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0.1 of the popular open-source Firefox browser. Check out the homepage or jump straight to the download (win32).

An unofficial changelog:

  • Security fixes
    • Display hostname in title bar when address bar is hidden, to reduce the impact of the fact that web sites are allowed to spoof address bars.
    • Security and download dialogs can be spoofed by covering them partially using popup windows.
    • Secunia background tab security issues (SA12712).
    • 2 Frame Injection Vulnerabilities (popup blocking race condition & onunload event mis-firing).
    • Download dialog source spoofing (SA13599).
    • Image drag and drop allows to create executable files.
    • When dropping a javascript link to a tab, the script runs in the security context of the site currently displayed in the tab.
    • “New Updates Avail” popup in bottom right-hand corner pops up endlessly / excessive hits on update service.
    • Using Flash and the -moz-opacity filter you can get access to about:config and make the user silently change values.
    • Display IDN URLs as punycode by default (controlled by a hidden pref).
  • Notable bug fixes
    • Unattended install asks for installation folder.
    • Uninstalling deleted non-Firefox folders (after installing to C:\Program Files\).
    • Caret overlaps the last character in textfield (if positioned after the last char).
    • Decouple services on update.mozilla.org.
    • “New Updates Avail” popup in bottom right-hand corner pops up endlessly / excessive hits on update service.
    • Form element cannot get focus when loaded by XML/XSLT page.
    • FIPS can’t be enabled.
    • Regression: network.standard-url.encode.utf8 and network.enableIDN prefs are ignored.
    • [Mac] Firefox disk image should use .dmg internal zlib-compression, not .dmg.gz.
    • [Linux] Crash while loading page with MS .fon font.

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