Mozilla Firefox update 1.5.0.1

barnettgs · 3 Feb 2006 at 10:50

Sorry if this is old news, here's the update.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Otacon · 3 Feb 2006 at 10:58

Been out for a while, though in theory we should have all been alerted by FireFox. I know all my installs jumped up

aaazza · 3 Feb 2006 at 11:19

Cheers for the heads up.

aaazza

dirtydog · 3 Feb 2006 at 11:25

I haven't been alerted by Firefox, even though I have automatic updates turned on?

Otacon · 3 Feb 2006 at 11:43

Are you using a localised version (i.e. not the standard EN_US)?

puppy · 3 Feb 2006 at 12:35

Actually I was surprised when I got a little alert window - being suspicious by nature I thought it might be a virus masquerading as a real update... lol

dirtydog · 3 Feb 2006 at 12:41

Otacon said:
Are you using a localised version (i.e. not the standard EN_US)?

I am indeed, en-GB

modo77 · 3 Feb 2006 at 13:00

It seems to vary in the amout of time it takes to update. Got a few machines at home and its been about 3/4 days between them all updating.

tolien · 3 Feb 2006 at 14:06

dirtydog said:
I am indeed, en-GB

You'll have to wait for the localisation being updated then.

IIRC this is the list of fixes between 1.5 and 1.5.0.1. All your extensions/themes should work fine, though it would seem some don't (because the theme/extension developers cocked up and haven't been reading the news for the last 6 months).

Been running with the 1.5.0.1 updates (and some others that you might not see for a while) for ages here, since I'm running the branch nightlies (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060203 Firefox/1.5 ID:2006020303).
For more details on the nightly builds, look here. Maybe not a good idea if you demand stability 100% of the time.

The update check interval is controlled by app.update.interval (access via about:config) - set to 24 hours here.

knowlesy · 3 Feb 2006 at 14:10

the update screwd up my portable firefox !!!!!

dirtydog · 3 Feb 2006 at 18:44

Well Firefox just popped up with the update here so I guess it doesn't happen on the same day for everyone, as said above.

Kainz · 3 Feb 2006 at 18:56

Happened to me this morning and totally took me by surpraised. It updated without a hitch

Greenlizard0 · 3 Feb 2006 at 20:23

Thanks for the update. It seems to have sorted out my jumpy screen

Gman · 3 Feb 2006 at 20:40

knowlesy said:
the update screwd up my portable firefox !!!!!

it nearly did mine at uni the other day but I managed to restart it and turn off auto update and thats stoped it trying to update all the time

SkeeterUK · 4 Feb 2006 at 00:15

Damn the update has made the overclockers uk plugin be disabled as its not compatible grrr.. I really hope whoever made it updates it as i find i use it a lot.

tolien · 4 Feb 2006 at 00:21

Download, rename to zip, extract, edit install.rdf to have maxVersion set to 1.5.0.*, shove it all back into a zip, rename to .xpi, and install.
Or just install the Nightly Tester Tools extension, and force Firefox to ignore its MaxVersion.

Edit: If someone gives me the .xpi, I'll even do the work

Though it shouldn't need doing in the first place :eek:

SkeeterUK · 4 Feb 2006 at 00:31

Cant even remember where i even got it from, i mean the exact page. If you can do it dude and link it up here i'd be grateful.

tolien · 4 Feb 2006 at 00:53

This should work. Just a changed maxVersion, for reference.

SkeeterUK · 4 Feb 2006 at 01:37

Right i tryed what u did but when it installed and then said will upgrade when ff is restarted. I closed all ff down and checked task manager so its all down. Started then ff again and its not come on, when i goto extenstions its saying the same thing, when ff closes it will be upgraded. So thanks for trying dude. Just didn't seem to work for me.

tolien · 4 Feb 2006 at 01:38

Worked for me :confused: