Firefox 1.5 - Security and Stability Releases

Posted Thu, Aug 3 2006 15:27 by Harry Waldron
  Mozilla development promptly fixed an issue related to Windows media from their important security release earlier this week.

Firefox 1.5.0.6 - Stability Release
http://www.incidents.org/diary.php?storyid=1539
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6.html

Firefox 1.5.0.5 - Recent Security patch
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5.html


Some tips on FIREFOX AUTOUPDATE SETTINGS

Most folks should autoupdate okay. If you have issues or want to update more expediently, on the Firefox menu bar, select HELP >> CHECK FOR UPDATES to trigger this process right away.

Below is an approach recommended for the AUTOUPDATE settings. The standard install settings set autoupdate to automatic, where if you're keying information into a webpage and a new release is issued, you could potentially loose data for that session ...

TOOLS >> OPTIONS >> ADVANCED >> UPDATE >> Find "Automatically check for updates to" and make sure "Firefox" is checked >> Then Find "When updates are found" and check the option of "Ask me what I want to do" ... Apply and Save this setting

This way Firefox will issue a pop-up message that a new release is available and you can save any work in your already open browser session before applying the update.