Firefox hints&tips thread

Post by **Chris** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:46 pm

vinnieza wrote:Has anyone had the problem where they try to type into forums but firefox just puts the text into a search box and you can't get out of it (have to restart ff). Well ff keeps doing it now

Disable Find as you Type in the options, i think its still a bit buggy...

vinnieza · Post by **vinnieza** » Sun May 28, 2006 4:28 pm

Will try it cheers

Post by **117** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:35 am

1.5.0.4 is out, but most of u prolly know that anyway coz it autoupdates anyways. it's just a minor security and stability update by the looks of it

Post by **fac51** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:45 pm

indeedy, update for thunderbird as well

vinnieza · Post by **vinnieza** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:23 pm

Hopefully it's fixed the find as you type bug, which is really bugging me!

Eamonn · Post by **Eamonn** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:51 pm

there's another new one out... version 1.5.0.5

Fixes:

MFSA 2006-56 chrome: scheme loading remote content
MFSA 2006-55 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5)
MFSA 2006-54 XSS with XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(...)
MFSA 2006-53 UniversalBrowserRead privilege escalation
MFSA 2006-52 PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call
MFSA 2006-51 Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined "new Object()"
MFSA 2006-50 JavaScript engine vulnerabilities
MFSA 2006-48 JavaScript new Function race condition
MFSA 2006-47 Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains
MFSA 2006-46 Memory corruption with simultaneous events
MFSA 2006-45 Javascript navigator Object Vulnerability
MFSA 2006-44 Code execution through deleted frame reference

Post by **117** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:02 pm

anyone else having problems since upgrading to 1.0.6 ???

quite often the first time i load ff none of the menus work and it also seems to have problems downloading pages, but if i then shut ff and start it again it's fine

Post by **fac51** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:45 pm

seems ok here

Post by **fac51** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:47 pm

been running the FF 2.0 Release Candidate 2 for a couple of days, its decent enough. a fair few extensions don't work but none that bother me.

it's faster and the in-line spelling is super sweet

Post by **117** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:08 pm

had portable FF2.0RC1 running on my usb key at work for a month or so and really pleased (although tbf not tried many extensions), upgraded to RC2 this morning

Post by **117** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:22 am

oohhh just noticed that since RC2 you can now add dictionaries to the spell-check - right-click in a text-box to bring up the context menu and select Add Dictionaries, it takes you to a Mozilla page with a load of different dictionaries, select the one you want and it installs like a plugin (no more US spellings), then just right-click in a text-box (after a FF restart) and Change Language

Post by **fac51** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:36 pm

yeah that's its best feature

Post by **117** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:56 am

FF2 RC3 now available

Post by **fac51** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:34 pm

yup updated this morning

Post by **117** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:53 pm

you using it as your main browser yet? i'm still only running it off my usb key, so only gets used at work, use FF 1.5 at home but thinking about going the whole hog at home