Firefox 1.0.5 is out!

[ghenry]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[cederstrom]

I know how to install it.. ... but how do you remove 1.0.4... and make the shortcuts work and blah blah blah... i'm confused.

[tejas]

It is a security update

Here is what has changed:
MFSA 2005-56 Code execution through shared function objects
MFSA 2005-55 XHTML node spoofing
MFSA 2005-54 Javascript prompt origin spoofing
MFSA 2005-53 Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through the browser
MFSA 2005-52 Same origin violation: frame calling top.focus()
MFSA 2005-51 The return of frame-injection spoofing
MFSA 2005-50 Possibly exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo()
MFSA 2005-49 Script injection from Firefox sidebar panel using data:
MFSA 2005-48 Same-origin violation with InstallTrigger callback
MFSA 2005-47 Code execution via "Set as Wallpaper"
MFSA 2005-46 XBL scripts ran even when Javascript disabled
MFSA 2005-45 Content-generated event vulnerabilities

[brahms]

It will probably be in the updates in a few days - easiest to wait until then.

[muychingon]

It will probably be in the updates in a few days - easiest to wait until then.

Do you mean via yum?

[Jesus-Franco]

Yea I think he did. I will wait too.
I dont like installing this that arent rpms. No matter what distro I use if a binary disto specific package isnt avaliable I either wait, or make one myself. In this case I will wait since I know a rpm will be out very soon. I happend when 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 came out.

[zenora]

If linux wants to crawl out of geekdom, then simply posting a note like this "Firefox 1.0.5 is OUT," when FC4 rpms are nowhere near out, reinforces the bad image. Sorry, editors, it is not out as far as fedora forum is concerned until it is out for Fedora Linux. If the editors were editing, instead, a site for linux, then the enthusiasm is called for. "Ooops!" is the appropriate response to this release notice. As of lunchtime on thursday July 14th, 2005, two complete days after public release and several days since internal developer release, Firefox's latest version was not available for Fedora.

Next time, wait till there is a release a fedora version and then say "RELEASED."

[ghenry]

Zenora,

What are you talking about?

Your comments are harsh and frankly, a statement like "If linux wants to crawl out of geekdom" is so uninformed it's a joke.

This forum is for beginners to experts alike. If someone like me runs the non-rpm version of Firefox, I would want to know when the latest Firefox is out, hence my post.

If I was a beginner, I would appreciate the post, but just hang fire for the official RPM.

That's the beauty of Fedora... it's your choice.

Gavin.

[tejas]

Well, the idea of having this thread is this:

1) Someone posts when the release is out
2) Later, when the RPM is out, someone else posts 'Guess what!!! The RPM is out'
3) repeat for YUM mirrors

That is why this is a FORUM, not a Bulletin Board

and Zenora - You do know that the regular version of FF, as well as the RPM, can be used in Fedora. It is compatible with all flavors of Linux/UNIX/BSD

And If you are unhappy, why don't you make an RPM, rather than insult those who are taking time out of their lives to watch out for updates for you

[bitrain]

If you want to know when the rpm is out (and available for yum), subscribe to the fedora-announce mailing list.

I'll wait for the rpm like many, I also got the daily snapshot running, so I can wait... :)

[zenora]

My posting was not intended for ghenry/gavin's and such forum-posters. As I have mentioned in the posting, it is targeting the editors who thought it was pertinent to re-post it on top of the main page. You have the right, and the appropriateness with your posting. It is important that someone posts important updates such as firefox in the "forum," so that someone else takes the torch from there and rpm with it. As to making my own rpms, if I knew how, I would have.

To elevate a forum posting to a top level fedora posting is editorial. It is that decision, in this case, that is lacking in insight, foresight and, frankly, pride with Fedora. I am already unhappy that Firefox was/is not available on Fedora Core 4 as of Tuesday or Wednesday. That is a community leadership failure, not a fault of some techie who failed to compile an rpm for FC4. Instead of an editorial decision to look into the delay and urge rectification, all I saw was your forum posting about a fresh juicy tarball. A tarball is not good enough for non-techie world, which I am blunt, and proud, to say is a product for geekdom. But let's not get offended by our strength because our grandmother does not understand tarballs.

Linux should have been where Mac OSX is today, at the very least. It is not, and is precisely so, because we are too comfortable with command line arguments and tarball compilations for "decades." What we need with Linux, as well as, Fedora is "easy install" and my chidings are on target.

[mugs]

I disagree with Zenora. From my beginnings with Linux, I used tarballs. Sure, an rpm is sometimes easier and I tried them first if available, but if not, I dived in and tried a tarball. The fact is, that many times a tarball works better. Sure, sometimes it is nice to just have an "easy install" but do you really learn anything that way?

Most people just want to turn on their computer and have it do exactly what they want with little or no effort on their part. This, I feel, is ironic, though because so many people in the Windows world have useless machines because of spyware and viruses, and have no idea how to fix it. To get the most out of anything, you need to be somewhat informed.

Like previously stated, Linux is about choice. If you want to be more of a techie, you can use command line, etc. If not, you can pretty much have a Windows or Mac experience (but without the spyware, popups, etc). I just built a box for my parents. They started with computers in 1999, with Windows 98. Now, they have had FC4 for 2 weeks and keep telling me how much better they like it. And, they are not tecnical at all.

I enjoy hearing here that a new version of Firefox is out. If I want to use the tarball, great, if not I can wait for the rpm or build it myself. You will find with Fedora that there are many people and sites that will help you out. There are many great tutorials out there.

Just my 2 cents.

[sailor]

The firefox releases are cross platform and are released as installable binaries...waiting for the rpm really does not make sense...I have installed the binary version each time without any problems. (read the install notes on the Mozilla page)
Simply open konqueror and extract the contents of the file, then run firefox-installer....
I am not sure why anyone finds this to be a problem, waiting for the rpm is fine but it is not neccessary.

This is no different than unzipping executable file in windows then double clicking it...which I am sure every windows user has done at least a few times to install programs.

[Flyboy917]

If you install from a tarball or do any non-rpm install, does yum / apt know what you have on your system?

[Finalzone]

Nope. That's the reason why developer suggest against to install non-rpm on a rpm distro.

[Shadow Skill]

I guess his point was that instead of posting when the program is released straight from the developers one should wait until the rpm is available before saying it is available. I'm not entirely sure I agree with him but as a compromize I think releases like this should have a caption in the title when the rpm is not currently available to avoid any potential confusion. Hmm I think I should check to see if the Gentoo ebuild is out yet...

[gnuman]

Anyone has gotten FC 1.0.5 to install on FC4 I'm having problems along with Opera 8 (since FC3).

I don't seem to have any luck with FC4 on anything :(

[enzoweb]

I agree with Zenora - I am not a newbie with Unix, but find Linux a lot harder to get working than Windows. I installed 1.0.5 for Windows XP by downloading it and double-clicking it.
I have just installed Core4, updated everything, downloaded the Firefox 1.0.5.
OK, it's a tar.gz. I know what to do with that. It extracts a firefox-installer script. OK, I'll run it in a terminal window as root.
Uh-oh : ./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Off to Google - tells me to create symlinks. OK, I know how to do that (even though it tells me the commands). Try again, same thing.
Do another google - ah, there's something called yum - not heard of that before, but I'll give it a go:
sudo yum localinstall firefox-1.0.5-1.fc4.i386.rpm
wait a minute, I don't have a this file. In fact, it doesn't exist anywhere.

Which of the methods above is 'non-geeky'?

[sailor]

If you have a previous version of firefox, install the new version in the same directory... the installer will tell you it is installing in the same directory as a previous version. You will be given the opportunity to delete the directory...do this and it will install fine. You will not lose any iof your extensions or plugins (they are in other directories )

I have just done this for FC4, FC3, Suse 9,2, Win XP and WIn 98...no problems what so ever.

[Negation]

Easiest way to install a tarball is to install it in your home directory.

[caillon]

I just pushed *RELEASE CANDIDATE* builds of Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 to FC3-testing and FC4-testing. I really would love to see feedback on these builds. Please file any issues (especially things that used to work in 1.0.4 but doesn't now, including extensions and plugins, etc.) in bugzilla. If all goes well, these builds may be final builds.

See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/07/please_help_us.html for more details.

--
Christopher Aillon
Red Hat, Inc.

[michaelbkk]

I can't believe I'm the only one who knows that Firefox updates itself! This feature is in all versions, although the updates are apparently not ready yet. If you check your Preferences, you should find a Software Updates item in the Advanced tab. You can click "Check Now" to see if an update is available yet for your platform, and if it is Firefox can install it for you.

This is handy for those of us using older versions of FC that are no longer getting updates through yum.

[tanaka]

Anyone has gotten FC 1.0.5 to install on FC4 I'm having problems along with Opera 8 (since FC3).

I don't seem to have any luck with FC4 on anything :(
I have installed Opera by downloading the rpm for FC3 from Opera site. I didn't have any problem and it works fine!
Also there is a new realease for Firefox out there. Does anybody know when fedora is going to release an rpm for the new version.

[Kentaro]

I was concerned when there was no Firefox 1.0.5 RPM released to updates even a week after the new release. Now I understand why... turns out it broke a bunch of extensions. If we want a nice, easy, yum-installable update to Firefox, I guess we'll be waiting for a 1.0.6 build.

BTW, just in case anyone wants to throw that on the front page, hot on the heels of Firefox 1.0.5, Firefox 1.0.6 was officially released. Or maybe we should wait until there's an RPM in updates? :D

[lvanek]

Wont have to wait any longer for 1.06. Its here. Gee wonder when any of this will be in yum repos?

http://www.mozilla.org/

[SlowJet]

Fedoranews main page - http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
Left hand list - Community Potal, Fedora Updates, links
Community protal - http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/FedoraNEWS.ORG:Community_Portal
Fedora List Archievs
The fedora-test-list Archives - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/
ttttttttttttttttttttttttt est staging for repo testing-updates
then they go to Fedora Updates (what is coming out on the the released updates enabled in yum)
Takes 1 to 3 days to show up in yum check-update

If you read those Archievs lists from time to time, you will get the bigger picture and see some common problems and / or work arounds.
Also, you'll know why some things are just not going to happen as soon as you expect.

I have been running Fx 1.0.6 with thems and extentions for 2 days.
But I am not running some other FC4 testing packages because they need testing.
I am also running some ayz.org rpm packages because they have what I need and the current FC4 doesn't, however that's my risk and no support or help.

Somethings are easy as pie and somethings are known only by the CIA, babies, and cooks. :)

SJ
SJ

[caillon]

I was concerned when there was no Firefox 1.0.5 RPM released to updates even a week after the new release. Now I understand why... turns out it broke a bunch of extensions. If we want a nice, easy, yum-installable update to Firefox, I guess we'll be waiting for a 1.0.6 build.

BTW, just in case anyone wants to throw that on the front page, hot on the heels of Firefox 1.0.5, Firefox 1.0.6 was officially released. Or maybe we should wait until there's an RPM in updates? :D

Its already in updates. Go and grab it. :)

[Kentaro]

Totally grabbed. :)

[steve941]

1. new firefox is definately now available via yum as stated above
2. newbies on this post: what is up with you?
no one forces you to use linux/fedora: if you find opening a terminal, becoming root and typing: yum install firefox---- difficult or going to the firefox homepage and following the directions to install firefox before the rpm is out than use windows by all means.