Date: 12/21/05     Keywords: yahoo, google

I just upgraded to Firefox 1.5 here at work, and I'm still having trouble with sites like mapquest, yahoo and google maps. The maps either don't fully load, or clicking to zoom in/out does not work. I first noticed this after I installed a flash block extension, but it's still troubling me, even though I have removed it. Does anybody have any ideas what the problem may be?

I'm using it on a Win2K machine.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/343736.html

Date: 12/21/05     Keywords: web

I'm unable to use the Rich Text version of Journal Update on the LJ website.
I'm using Firefox v. 1.0.7, running Windows XP Pro v. 2002.

Any suggestions? (I have the Deepest Sender extension, but sometimes I want to post from the website. Just wondering why it doesn't work.)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/343524.html

Date: 12/21/05     Keywords: web

I'm unable to use the Rich Text version of Journal Update on the LJ website.
I'm using Firefox v. 1.0.7, running Windows XP Pro v. 2002.

Any suggestions? (I have the Deepest Sender extension, but sometimes I want to post from the website. Just wondering why it doesn't work.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/343524.html

Date: 12/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

This has probably been discussed, but would probably be worth repeating for those of us who recently joined. :) What differences will I see if I switch from Mozilla suite to Thunderbird & Firefox? I've been a Mozilla user for a few years now, and like it a lot. Thanks in advance. :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/342812.html

Date: 12/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

This has probably been discussed, but would probably be worth repeating for those of us who recently joined. :) What differences will I see if I switch from Mozilla suite to Thunderbird & Firefox? I've been a Mozilla user for a few years now, and like it a lot. Thanks in advance. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/342812.html

Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Anyone finding that firefox is gobbling up memory? Right now, on my machine it's taking 263 mb. I find that rather odd, considering it's normally 30-50 mb. I'm guessing it's a memory leak. Googling for "Firefox 1.5 memory" I get a bunch of results, including some fixes that were unsuccessful for me. I know posting here won't really dig up anything really life-changing, I'm just whining.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/342690.html

Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Anyone finding that firefox is gobbling up memory? Right now, on my machine it's taking 263 mb. I find that rather odd, considering it's normally 30-50 mb. I'm guessing it's a memory leak. Googling for "Firefox 1.5 memory" I get a bunch of results, including some fixes that were unsuccessful for me. I know posting here won't really dig up anything really life-changing, I'm just whining.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/342690.html

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: web

Does thunderbird have a sent mail folder? I can't find it for the life of me and I would love to see some of the stuff I wrote in late night stupors.

Thanks a ton!

edit: Ok I should explain somthing. I know nothing about Thunderbird, it just beats the web based program my college offers and I can't stand outlook. If you could help me figure out where the sent mail folder would be that would be great. The FAQ is just confusing me and I have no idea what the global inbox or whatever is. I just want a sent mail folder I can easily access.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/342332.html

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: web

Does thunderbird have a sent mail folder? I can't find it for the life of me and I would love to see some of the stuff I wrote in late night stupors.

Thanks a ton!

edit: Ok I should explain somthing. I know nothing about Thunderbird, it just beats the web based program my college offers and I can't stand outlook. If you could help me figure out where the sent mail folder would be that would be great. The FAQ is just confusing me and I have no idea what the global inbox or whatever is. I just want a sent mail folder I can easily access.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/342332.html

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: software, virus, spyware, google

Hi!

I have encountered something strange here using Google and Firefox 1.5. Whenever I'm trying to search for something which contains the word "forum" I get this message:

We're sorry...

... but we can't process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.

We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.

I have tried it in IE 6 and Opera 7, but I don't get this message using them. What is this? I have scanned my system already for Spyware, but there was nothing major. But I haven't checked for Viruses yet, because it takes long. Well, AntiVir didn't notice anything as I have started (it checks the memory and current processes).

Does anyone else gets this message?

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EDIT:

It seems I'm not the only one who had this problem: Thread in the german Firefox support forum. Now I have cleared the cache and history... and guess what? It works now! :D

But, still, it was somewhat confusing.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/342204.html

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: software, virus, spyware, google

Hi!

I have encountered something strange here using Google and Firefox 1.5. Whenever I'm trying to search for something which contains the word "forum" I get this message:

We're sorry...

... but we can't process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.

We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.

I have tried it in IE 6 and Opera 7, but I don't get this message using them. What is this? I have scanned my system already for Spyware, but there was nothing major. But I haven't checked for Viruses yet, because it takes long. Well, AntiVir didn't notice anything as I have started (it checks the memory and current processes).

Does anyone else gets this message?

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EDIT:

It seems I'm not the only one who had this problem: Thread in the german Firefox support forum. Now I have cleared the cache and history... and guess what? It works now! :D

But, still, it was somewhat confusing.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/342204.html

Date: 12/10/05     Keywords: java, security

.. or has anyone else who upgraded to Firefox 1.5 last week found it buggy and bloated?

It crashes every once in a while (not related to the recent security hole) and java 5.0 is really bad. I installed it and it makes my computer unresponsive requiring a reboot sometimes. Firefox will make my computer unresponsive to a ctrl+alt+del for 2-3 minutes until its closed if I leave my computer on all night. Normally when a process in WIndows2000 is using %100 of the cpu it should at least remain responsive.


I hope some bug fixes come soon. Its that or my registry is corrupt perhaps? Anyone else have the same problems?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/341918.html

Date: 12/10/05     Keywords: java, security

.. or has anyone else who upgraded to Firefox 1.5 last week found it buggy and bloated?

It crashes every once in a while (not related to the recent security hole) and java 5.0 is really bad. I installed it and it makes my computer unresponsive requiring a reboot sometimes. Firefox will make my computer unresponsive to a ctrl+alt+del for 2-3 minutes until its closed if I leave my computer on all night. Normally when a process in WIndows2000 is using %100 of the cpu it should at least remain responsive.


I hope some bug fixes come soon. Its that or my registry is corrupt perhaps? Anyone else have the same problems?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/341918.html

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: browser, java, security, virus, linux

News of a new security vulnerability has been posted for Firefox 1.5 (my testing confirms it also affects Firefox 1.0.7) that allows for Denial of Service or potentially arbitrary code execution. It has to do with a buffer overflow in the parsing of history.dat, which stores browser history.

Basically, if you visit a malcious site using this vulnerability, the next time you try to start Firefox it will run the malicious code, which could be as minor as causing Firefox not to work (such as the Proof of Concept) or as serious as executing arbitrary code (i.e. it could install a virus or other malware). Fortunately, there is a simple workaround: just set Firefox to keep browser history for 0 (zero) days, essentially setting it not to keep history, and then restart Firefox to make the change take effect. Note that disabling JavaScript DOES NOT mitigate this vulnerability; only disabling browser history does, since that prevents the creation of history.dat. Also note that the malcious code would run each time you attempt to start Firefox, until you delete history.dat from your profile folder.

I don't believe Mozilla has announced anything about this yet, but proof of concept code is available, and I confirmed with my own testing that it works as I described on both Mac OS X and Windows, using both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 1.0.7, meaning that all versions are probably affected (or at least all recent versions).

Here are the steps to mitigate this vulnerability until a patch is released (for Firefox 1.5):

1. Open Firefox Options (Tools->Options on Windows) or Preferences (Edit->Preferences on Linux, Firefox->Preferences on Mac OS X).
2. Choose "Privacy" from the top button bar, and choose the "History" tab.
3. Set "Remember visited pages for the last ____ days." to 0 (zero).
4. On Windows, click OK to close the Options window. On Linux or Mac, simply close the Preferences window.
5. Restart Firefox to make sure the setting takes effect.

The same steps apply to Firefox 1.0.x, it's just that the options/preferences window is different. Basically, for step 2 the "Privacy" button is on the left side button bar, and history is the top section on that pane.

More details for the technically minded...

X-posted to firefoxusers

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/341566.html

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: browser, asp, java, security, virus, linux

News of a new security vulnerability has been posted for Firefox 1.5 (my own testing confirms it also affects Firefox 1.0.7, Mozilla 1.7.12, and Camino 1.0b1) that allows for Denial of Service or potentially arbitrary code execution. It has to do with a buffer overflow in the parsing of history.dat, which stores browser history.

Basically, if you visit a malcious site using this vulnerability, the next time you try to start Firefox it will run the malicious code, which could be as minor as causing Firefox not to work (such as the Proof of Concept) or as serious as executing arbitrary code (i.e. it could install a virus or other malware). Fortunately, there is a simple workaround: just set Firefox to keep browser history for 0 (zero) days, essentially setting it not to keep history, and then restart Firefox to make the change take effect. Note that disabling JavaScript DOES NOT mitigate this vulnerability; only disabling browser history does, since that prevents the creation of history.dat. Also note that the malcious code would run each time you attempt to start Firefox, until you delete history.dat from your profile folder.

I don't believe Mozilla has announced anything about this yet, but proof of concept code is available, and I confirmed with my own testing that it works as I described on both Mac OS X and Windows, using both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 1.0.7, meaning that all versions are probably affected (or at least all recent versions).

Here are the steps to mitigate this vulnerability until a patch is released (for Firefox 1.5):

1. Open Firefox Options (Tools->Options on Windows) or Preferences (Edit->Preferences on Linux, Firefox->Preferences on Mac OS X).
2. Choose "Privacy" from the top button bar, and choose the "History" tab.
3. Set "Remember visited pages for the last ____ days." to 0 (zero).
4. On Windows, click OK to close the Options window. On Linux or Mac, simply close the Preferences window.
5. Restart Firefox to make sure the setting takes effect.

The same steps apply to Firefox 1.0.x, it's just that the options/preferences window is different. Basically, for step 2 the "Privacy" button is on the left side button bar, and history is the top section on that pane.

More details for the technically minded...

X-posted to mozilla

Update 1: My own testing confirms that other Mozilla-based browsers are affected by this vulnerability as well, including Mozilla Suite and Camino. I've also confirmed that this can be exploited without JavaScript (which I already suspected), and it has the same effect as the original PoC. All users of Gecko-based browsers should disable browser history.

Also, Secunia has released an advisory on the issue, but they only mention the DoS aspect, not the possibility of code execution that the original researchers claim is possible. While I can't confirm myself whether or not that is true, it is still certainly a nuisance to have Firefox become unusable, so you should all still protect yourselves.

Update 2: Mozilla has released a statement, claiming that the flaw only causes Firefox and Mozilla to hang for a long time when starting, but that they eventually do start. They also say that they don't think code execution is possible, since the original researchers present no proof of it other than claiming its possible. Though they don't state it, it doesn't sound like they're planning to release a patch anytime soon...

Also, testing confirms that this affects Linux, though depending on the distribution it seems to affect it differently. For example, on Gentoo using the twm window manager, accessing the test case caused the window manager to completely lock up, and then after restarting Firefox wouldn't work. On Fedora Core 4, however, after restarting Gnome (which locked up for me similarly to twm) Firefox did seem to keep working normally. Perhaps the fact that the window managers are locking up is a sign that they can't handle extremely long window titles...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/341566.html

Date: 12/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Mozilla Developer Center - developer.mozilla.org ... check out a typical wiki page

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/341357.html

Date: 12/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Mozilla Developer Center - developer.mozilla.org ... check out a typical wiki page

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/341357.html

Date: 12/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

I want to be able to have, at Firefox's fingertips, a couple of common text or code snippets that I can insert into URLs or text boxes with a couple of keystrokes or clicks. e.g.:

- ?style=mine
- target="_blank"
- my street address
etc.

What Firefox extension am I looking for?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/340618.html

Date: 11/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

How would I go about creating a second install of Firefox?  I want to have both 1.0.7 and 1.5 at the same time to do something.  I am running Windows XP SP2, is it even possible?  Or would I just pick another directory to install to instead of the Firefox directory?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/340334.html

Date: 11/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

Check out Cnet.com's review on Firefox 1.5, here!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/340030.html