Fx 1.0.3 testing

Posted April 2nd, 2005, 2:04 pm

Asa Dotzler has asked for assistance in testing Fx 1.0.3

A search of bugzilla shows a small number of bug fixes. As for any security updates, as with previous releases we will probably have to wait until it is released for confirmation of the fixes.

Added: Asa's blogs so far for Firefox 1.0.3 - it is best to add comments about any problems to the latest of Asa's blogs.
April 2 firefox 1.0 update candidates available for testing
April 3 second candidates for firefox 1.0.3
April 4 1.0.3 candidate testing
April 5 AM 1.0.3 final candidates
April 5 PM another shot at 1.0.3
April 6 yet another 1.0.3 candidate :-)

April 8 1.0.3 candidates
April 13 updating your extensions for 1.0.3
April 14 firefox 1.0.3 testing candidates
April 15 firefox 1.0.3 and mozilla 1.7.7 released

Posted April 5th, 2005, 2:16 pm

Fx 1.0.3 PR works fine except for a 80-90 %CPU condition after resuming from hibernation at work.
SwitchProxy to my workplace proxy did not get Fx out of the high CPU usage.
Had to restart Fx.

I can confirm that installation on Windows XP (tested on two separate sytems with SP2) removes installation information of previous 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 installation from Add/Remove Programs and now only shows 1.0.3 installation available for uninstall.

On a system with 1.0 PR installed, that entry did not get removed by 1.0.3 PR installation.
Serious registry searching for "1.0PR" and key deletion was required to finally get rid of the 1.0PR uninstall information.

And 1.0.3 PR even still works :-)

Posted April 5th, 2005, 6:52 pm

1.0.3 still needs work:

Asa wrote:After further consideration (and investigation,) we have decided that it may be necessary to take a rather larger change into 1.0.3 than we had planned. We've run into one of those "fix the root cause or patch around the symptoms" trade-offs and to prevent future security issues, we're leaning towards the "fix the root problem" fix.

The problem with "the right fix" is that it will probably break a number of extensions - we've already determined that features within DOM Inspector will break and need to be patched.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007898.html

Posted April 5th, 2005, 10:14 pm

I dont want to sound like those annoying people who always ask for release dates, but today is when I just heard about 1.0.3.

How long has this candidate build been in development and when is its projected release date?

Again, I dont want to sound like a PITA, I just noticed this.

Posted April 6th, 2005, 1:22 am

It's in development since 1.0.2 and it will be done when it's done.

Posted April 6th, 2005, 2:10 pm

Is it me or are quicktime vids/trailers on apple.com broken?

using the latest alternative quicktime and
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0.3

Posted April 6th, 2005, 8:35 pm

I just tested it with War of the Worlds. All seems to be working fine for me.

I do use regular Quicktime though.

Posted April 7th, 2005, 3:20 am

for me flash is broken on http://mlb.com
with the version yesterday everything was just working fine.

Posted April 7th, 2005, 3:25 am

This is broken for me, but works in 1.0.2
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/

Can someone confirm (might be another Flash issue)?

Posted April 7th, 2005, 4:42 am

This isn't the right way to be updating firefox security. The correct way should be to just release simple patches to update it (as was done with .9.2->.9.3, or whichever had that shell:// exploit), not to have an entire new build downloaded through the auto-updater and risk with the installation errors that occur so often.

Posted April 7th, 2005, 5:18 am

Queek wrote:This is broken for me, but works in 1.0.2
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/

Can someone confirm (might be another Flash issue)?

WFM in 1.0.3

Posted April 7th, 2005, 5:43 am

Queek wrote:This is broken for me, but works in 1.0.2
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/

Can someone confirm (might be another Flash issue)?

this also broken for me. did a complete clean install and it doesnt work.

Posted April 7th, 2005, 8:13 am

WFM with the latest 1.0.3 win32 zip 20050407 build.

Posted April 7th, 2005, 9:22 am

tongle wrote:This isn't the right way to be updating firefox security. The correct way should be to just release simple patches to update it (as was done with .9.2->.9.3, or whichever had that shell:// exploit), not to have an entire new build downloaded through the auto-updater and risk with the installation errors that occur so often.

That update broke the auto-updating for some people that used it. It is the plan to be able to have XPIs of particular chunks of the browser, rather than having the whole installer, but it doesn't work yet. It should work in 1.1, so that 1.1.x updates will be less painful.

Posted April 7th, 2005, 9:44 am

Using the latest 1.0.3 build w/ the following extensions:

Toolbar Enhancements
Allow Right-Click
Statusbar Clock
Disable Targets For Downloads
FirefoxView
ieview
Nuke Anything
Print It!
SearchThis
Adblock
FlashGot
Extended Statusbar
Hotmail Tabs
text/plain
Tabbrowser Extensions
MediaPlayerConnectivity
ForecastFox
Compact Menu

Also using the "Mostly Crystal" theme.

No problems to report so far.

Fx 1.0.3 testing

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