The Mozilla Foundation has released FireFox 1.0.5 which addresses several security issues.

Download: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 for Windows
Download: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 for OS-X
Download: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 for Linux

News source: In-House

yes thanks downloading now

I won't download it because i use Deer Park 1

Yet another release of Firefox.

I guess people don't mind installing a new version every month compared to the monthly security patches for IE. I wonder if people wouldn't bash IE as much if MS said IE 6.0.1 for January and 6.0.2 for the next month etc.

I like IE and can't wait for IE 7.0

Let the bashing of IE begin your firefox lovers

I don't mind. It only takes like a minute to download and install.

neither do i.

and actually, i'd like to see microsoft release updates to IE more than once every 5 years. i'm sure some people would see an update to IE 6.01 or 6.02 as microsoft doing more than when they just release patches.

cool, just got it. thanks

Thanks for the update

Once 1.1 is released, you will not need to download the entire browsers for updates. It will only download the parts that has been updated.

Well, I see your point and the Firefox-Developers saw it, too. Firefox 1.1 will have a greatly improved update system allowing the fast deployment of security-patches as small as a few kilobytes, smaller than any IE-update ever.

And still, you're wrong. On "Patch-Day" Microsoft usually releases multiple patches for Internet Explorer. Each of them very often more than a megabyte in size, and although I use Firefox I still have to download and apply them because Internet Explorer is so deeply integrated into Windows. And of course, since it is, I have to reboot my computer just to keep a browser secure that I don't even want to use.

And you're seriously complaining about the fact that a "patch" for Firefox right now is about 4.5 mb in size every two month wich can be applied by autoupdate within a minute and without having to reboot anything?
Well, you are right, that's not perfect and that's why it will be improved in Firefox 1.1. But it's still far better than keeping Internet Explorer up to date.

By the way:

Deer Park Alpha 2 Released

Same here


Tnx

pfft "security issues"... my computer runs windows98 and is too old to be compatible with any of the latest virus and trojans

@Pre: Like your style!

I'd use win98 too, its faster, and i don't give a damn about the occasional crash. Only thing putting me off is lack of office and game support.

thanx for the heads up but I'm stickin with Opera

Hehe...that's what you think. I gave a friend of mine, my old Win98 and Office 97 cd (all she needed was to do work at home). A few days later, she called me, asking why her computer kept screwing up. After checking it out, she had tons of junk on her computer from her research on the net.

Now, admittedly, my friend is an idiot when it comes to computers, but still...