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Firefox Growing Pains
Less than a week after being told to update to 1.0.4 to patcha security hole in Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation released 1.0.5 to fix a bunch of security problems caused by 1.0.4. I hate upgrading Firefox because I always have to reinstall the Spell Checker extension because extensions are stored in the application directoy (at least on OS X). Ugh!
Posted by windley on July 20, 2005 3:49 PM
Comment from Dan Olsen
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July 20, 2005 4:14 PM
Try the new Google toolbar for Firefox. When I update Firefox I don't have to reinstall it and it comes with a spell checker.
Comment from Richard Miller at July 21, 2005 9:57 AM
ZDNet has an interview with Asa Dotzler of the Mozilla Foundation, in which he mentions (on page 4) that Firefox 1.1 will have a "world class update system" to make installing patches and updates much easier. http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39209577,00.htm
Comment from Richard Miller at July 21, 2005 6:18 PM
Addendum: the Mozilla Foundation has cancelled the upcoming release of Firefox 1.1 and will wait until 1.5 to come out in a few months.
http://news.com.com/Major+Firefox+release+delayed/2100-1032_3-5798451.html