Bug 259708 fully disclosed

Several readers were curious about the details of bug 259708, the security hole 0.10.1 was released to fix. The bug is now public. In addition, the reporter, Alex Vincent, blogged the story of the bug.

Posted in Old branches | October 5th, 2004 | 4 Comments »

2004-10-02 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 262272 - Icon in location bar doesn't clear when visiting site without favicon.
  • Fixed: 259005 - Print preview should hide the browser statusbar.
  • Fixed: 256048 - Icon for the disabled Clean Up button in Downloads Manager missing.
  • Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | October 2nd, 2004 | 9 Comments »

2004-10-01 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 172962 - Options for where to open URLs from other applications (reuse tab, new tab, new window). So far, this is only fixed on Windows.
  • Fixed: 227241 - Open new windows only upon explicit instruction (Single Window Mode) (open new-window links in tabs instead). So far, this works for the target attribute but not for JavaScript window.open().
  • Fixed: 259993 - Mixed up favicons on Bookmarks, even with Firefox 1.0 Preview Release.
  • Fixed: 258692 - "Sort by name" should sort siblings, not children.
  • Fixed: 259708 - Security hole: A malicious hacker who could trick a user into saving a file could delete files from a user's download directory.
  • Fixed: 234416 - Security hole: Can spoof filename in "what should firefox do with this file" dialog.
  • Fixed: 257523 - Security hole: [GTK] Text fields give scripts access to the user's clipboard.
  • Fixed: 261613 - Popups displayed when viewing item properties in bookmark manager.
  • Fixed: 215929 - Window title shows [object HTMLImageElement] on page with <img name="title">.
  • Fixed: 246193 - IPV6: doesn't revert to IPv4 if IPv6 connect fails.
  • Fixed: 261840 - Download Manager should stay open after download completes (by default; UI pref is still there).
  • Fixed: 253911 - Live Bookmarks doesn't handle content inside CDATA blocks.
  • Fixed: 260308 - Live Bookmarks ignore entries without a title.
  • Fixed: 245088 (?) - Customize Toolbar sheet: Remove slide-out.
  • Fixed: Customize Toolbar sheet: Make the window not reposition badly near the bottom of the screen.
  • Fixed: Customize Toolbar sheet: Esc, Enter should close.
  • Fixed: 245722 - Topcrash: On start after importing passwords.
  • Fixed: 207846 - Topcrash: [@ msvcrt.dll - nsStorageInputStream::Read].
  • Fixed: 251969 - Topcrash: [@ nsHttpChannel::OnStopRequest ].
  • Fixed: 257354 - Topcrash: Can make firefox crash while using form completion.
  • Since ~Sept 30: 262272 - Icon in location bar doesn't clear when visiting site without favicon.
  • Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, daihard's

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | October 2nd, 2004 | 5 Comments »

2004-09-28 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 124750 - Other tab steals focus with javascript textbox.focus().
  • Fixed: 261692 - New livemark RSS icon has a dropdown in the bookmarks menu.
  • Fixed: 248987 - When "Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open" in unchecked, "closing" the last tab should blank the tab instead of temporarily hiding the tab bar.
  • Fixed: 254078 - Flashing cursor in View Source window cannot be moved by arrow keys.
  • Fixed: 255812 - Scroll bar in extension manager is very slow, uses 70-100% CPU.
  • Fixed: 259203 - Uninstalling current non-default theme breaks browser.
  • Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's, moox's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, sri's O3 SSE2

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | September 29th, 2004 | 18 Comments »

2004-09-26 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 229441 - Background images are not shown in Media tab (Page Info).
  • Fixed: 223545 - [Mac] Exposé reveals "hidden" window.
  • Fixed: 232715 - [Mac] Serious problems with browser after disk sleep.
  • Fixed: 140577 - [RTL] Radio buttons and check boxes aligned to the left when UI aligned to the right.
  • Fixed: 261354 - RSS button icon for Live Bookmarks was too geeky, too big, and looked like it said "ASS". It was replaced with an icon depicting a radio broadcast.
  • Fixed: 257317 - Fullscreen window management buttons need tooltips.
  • Fixed: 252023 - "no-store" header directives from server or web script ignored by browser during non-SSL transactions.
  • Fixed: 257308 - Visual indicators of site security appear for the wrong site.
  • Fixed: 260385 - Beforeunload event can be used to open a popup window.
  • Fixed: 241300 - Crash on this URL with invalid background.
  • Fixed: 248021 - Incorrect ordering for tab and window menu items on the File menu.
  • Fixed: 240696 - Ctrl+N in download manager should open a new browser window.
  • Fixed: 260282 - <MARQUEE> default |Direction| should be "left", instead of "right".
  • Fixed: part of 257480 - Stray pixels in toolbar icons.
  • Fixed: New "Options" icon for Extensions window. Change "Use" icon in the themes window to avoid confusion.
  • Fixed: Plugin finder: Restart warning.
  • Fixed: Plugin finder: License accepting should wait for the license to fully load.
  • Fixed: Plugin finder: Make applet tag work.
  • Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer is broken (discussion), bangbang's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | September 26th, 2004 | 10 Comments »

2004-09-23 Branch builds

Posting using today's Linux build on Gnome.

  • Fixed: 258725 - Incorrect chrome registration of multilingual extensions (including multiple locales).
  • Since Sept 15: 259685 - (crash) Shift+Delete appears to delete fromhistroy but the fromhistory repears few seconds later.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | September 23rd, 2004 | 3 Comments »

2004-09-22 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 260590 - Make Firefox logo more furry.
  • Fixed: 258725 - Incorrect chrome registration of multilingual extensions (including multiple locales).
  • Fixed: 250834 - Livemark fails to parse RSS feed (Atom feeds using rel without link).
  • Fixed: 256622 - Crash when adding/refreshing live bookmark.
  • Since Sept 15: 259685 - (crash) Shift+Delete appears to delete fromhistroy but the fromhistory repears few seconds later.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), moox's, bangbang's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, matlhDam's SSE with SVG

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | September 22nd, 2004 | 9 Comments »

2004-09-17 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 256383 - Unknown 'lang' should be mapped to 'x-unicode' instead of 'x-western'.
  • Fixed: 256409 - Bookmarks file path with non-ASCII characters doesn't work.
  • Fixed: 258788 - [Linux] Reflect GNOME Default shortcuts in the UI.
  • Fixed: 259206 - [Linux FC2] XML prettyprint broken.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), moox's, bangbang's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, matlhDam's

Mac builds: Official Mac

Posted in Old branches | September 18th, 2004 | 6 Comments »

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